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Gillette Alexander Elvgren (March 15, 1914 – February 29, 1980) [1] [2] [3] was an American painter of pin-up models, advertising and illustration. Best known for his pin-up paintings for Brown & Bigelow , Elvgren studied at the American Academy of Art .
Reid Stewart Austin (The Best of Gil Elvgren) examined the life and art of George Petty in the 192-page Petty: The Classic Pin-Up Art of George Petty. Published by Gramercy in 1997, the lavish volume features a foreword by Hugh Hefner and an introductory essay by Petty's daughter, Marjorie Petty, who was his main model.
Gil Elvgren, illustrator; Loren Long, author and illustrator; Rupert Kinnard; Alex Ross, comic book illustrator; Richard Schmid, painter; Richard Sloan, artist; Daniel Sotomayor, political cartoonist (attended but did not graduate) Haddon Sundblom, illustrator; Jill Thompson, author and illustrator; John Tobias, game designer
Working with Gil Elvgren, he is thought to have penned several of the iconic images attributed to Elvgren. [4] By 1960, Ekman was making a transition from commercial illustration and pin-up art to portraiture. The rest of his career was devoted to gallery works and portraits.
Betty Grable's famous pin-up photo from 1943. A pin-up model is a model whose mass-produced pictures and photographs have wide appeal within the popular culture of a society. . Pin-up models are usually glamour, actresses, or fashion models whose pictures are intended for informal and aesthetic display, known for being pinned onto a w
Bass created his own pin-ups for Brown & Bigelow, but he worked for Dow as a "paint over" artist, redoing work that other artists (notably Gil Elvgren) had done for the company. Bass' style was often compared with that of Elvgren, Al Buell, and Joyce Ballantyne. In the late 1950s, Bass did a series of wrestling scenes that demonstrated his ...