Gil Elvgren

Beer Advertisement

1940s

Date: 1951 Medium: Gouache and Tempera on Board Dimensions: 10.25" x 12.50" Signature: Signed Lower Right The Head and the Heart, American Magazine story illustration, September 1951

Signed Lower Left

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Ladies Home Journal, December 1939, pg 31. Illustration for Mary Hastings Bradley "Another Woman" "The kiss had been less casual...

Signature: Cosmopoilitan Magazine Cover, February 1942

Linen backed original beer poster without text. A beautiful woman is holding a large German style glass of beer; of course, with the appropriate amount of foam on top. A pin up...

While signed, "Elvgren" I would say that this is a very well executed period pin up after Gil Elvgren (March 15, 1914 – February 29, 1980), born Gillette Elvgren in Saint P...

Most likely for Redbook, Cosmopolitan, Collier's Weekly, Good Housekeeping or Macall's

Black lacquered wood framed offset lithograph after Gil Elvgren, titled “Sleepy Time Girl”. Image site measurements, 7.5” x 9.5”. Framed measurements “12” x 15” x .5”. Not examined outside of the frame. About the artist; Gil Elvgren studied at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts before transferring to the American Academy of Art in Chicago, where he graduated in 1936.[3] Elvgren then joined the stable of artists at Stevens and Gross, Chicago's most prestigious advertising agency. He became a protégé of the artist Haddon Sundblom. In 1937, Gil began painting calendar pin-ups for Louis F. Dow, one of America's leading publishing companies, during which time he created about 60 works on 28 × 22 in canvas and distinguished them with a printed signature. Many of his pin-ups were reproduced as nose art on military aircraft during World War II. Circa 1944, Elvgren was approached by Brown and Bigelow...