Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration
This is a beautiful, unique, and rare preliminary graphite drawing by Gil Elvgren for a 1955 speciality advertising calendar for Brown & Bigelow's exclusive "Miss Sylvania" line for Sylvania Electric. The Miss Sylvania account adapted The Great American Pin-Up to middle America's buttoned up sensibilities. Each year one of the calendar company's star artists would […]
Artist: Gil Elvgren
Price: SOLD
This endearing original 1967 oil on canvas painting by Gil Elvgren was created for the Brown & Bigelow calendar company and published under the title Ruffled Feathers. A spirited and colorful pin-up painting featuring a redheaded photographer in silk stockings and garters who runs into unexpected troubles as she attempts to capture the likeness of […]
Artist: Gil Elvgren
Price: Sold
This is a large preliminary charcoal drawing by Gil Elvgren that was an alternative suggestion for a mid-1950s speciality advertising calendar for Brown & Bigelow's exclusive "Miss Sylvania" line for Sylvania electric. The Miss Sylvania account adapted The Great American Pin-up to middle America's buttoned up sensibilities. Each year one of the calendar company's star […]
Artist: Gil Elvgren
Price: Sold
This original fine art figure study by the pre-eminent pin up illustrator comes from a collection of Gil Elvgren preliminary graphite drawings that we acquired which were found in a house in Sarasota, Florida where the artist once lived. With restraint and a detailed eye towards anatomy, the artist captures a brunette with a contemplative pose, offering […]
Artist: Gil Elvgren
Price: SOLD
This is a fabulous example of Gil Elvgren's pin-up work for the Brown & Bigelow Calendar Company of Saint Paul, MN. This was created and published in 1955 with the title of Welcome Traveler and is one of the finest Elvgren paintings this gallery has offered. A pretty redhead perched on a tweed suitcase […]
Artist: Gil Elvgren
Price: $95,000.00
This is a large preliminary charcoal drawing by Gil Elvgren that evokes two calendar works the artist completed for Brown & Bigelow; 1951's Party Line and 1958's A Good Connection. This is signed by Gil Elvgren lower right, above a note by the artist for the art director at Brown & Bigelow, Clair […]
Artist: Gil Elvgren
Price: Sold
This is a large preliminary charcoal drawing by Gil Elvgren, a study for the Brown & Bigelow pin-up calendar painting published in 1956 with the title Fit To Be Tied. This comes from a collection of Elvgren preliminary graphite drawings that we acquired which were found in a house in Sarasota, Florida where the artist once […]
Artist: Gil Elvgren
Price: SOLD
This original published pin-up painting by Gil Elvgren appeared as a 1968 Brown & Bigelow calendar with the title "Swingin' Sweetie". A classic offering from the very tail end of the pin-up craze when the summer of love swept in a new style that wreaked havoc on earlier presentations of pin-up girl femininity. While some artists tried to respond to the […]
Artist: Gil Elvgren
Price: Sold
A large preliminary rendering by Gil Elvgren of a work completed for Brown & Bigelow in 1948 with the title - "Do You Think I "No" Too Much ?" This image also appeared with the title "My Datebook's Showing Signs Of Age". This comes from a collection of Elvgren preliminary graphite drawings we acquired which […]
Artist: Gil Elvgren
Price: Sold
A wonderful vignette styled oil on canvas illustration painting by Gil Elvgren showing a young, stylish and very much in love couple in a warm clinch. This is of unknown publication usage. It is signed in the lower right corner "Elvgren" but the signature has been overpainted (shortly after this was painted […]
Artist: Gil Elvgren
Price: Sold
