Vintage Gil Elvgren 1940s Brown & Bigelow Nude Pin-Up Print The Gay Nymph Rare

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Vintage Gil Elvgren 1940s Brown & Bigelow Nude Pin-Up Print The Gay Nymph Rare:
$28.88

Thanks to all our buyers! We are honored to be your one-stop, 5-star source for vintage pin-up, pulp magazines, original illustration art, decorative collectibles and ephemera with a wide and always changed assortment of antique and vintage items from the Victorian, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, and Mid-Century Modern eras. All items are 100% guaranteed to be original, vintage, and as described. Please feel free to contact us with any and all questions about the items and our policies and please take a moment to peruse our other great items. All sell !ITEM: This is a c. late 1940s vintage and original pin-up calendar print. A captivating ethereal nude is posed reaching for the stars against a midnight blue sky. A memorable and enthralling image by Gil Elvgren titled, \"Gay Nymph\". Created for the Brown & Bigelow Calendar Company of St. Paul, Minnesota. A scarce old print that has us enchanted!Measures 7 1/4\" x 10\"CONDITION: Fine/fine+ condition with very mild handling wear around the corners and edges of the print. Please use the included images as a conditional guide.Guaranteed to be 100% vintage and original from Grapefruit Moon Gallery.********************ABOUT THE ARTIST:Gillete Elvgren is regarded today as the most technically proficient and gifted commercial pin-up artist of the 20th century, a prolific and hard working perfectionist who created luminous portraits of the mischievous girl next door for the Louis F. Dow Calendar Company and later the Brown & Bigelow Calendar Company.Elvgren worked as a commercial illustrator for many of the slick magazine publications, studying under his mentor Haddon Sundblom, and developed an accomplished and technically superior style with great commercial appeal, perfectly capturing the look and feel of post war America. His advertising accounts included Coca- Cola, Sylvania, Orange Crush, Schlitz Beer, General Electric, and Napa Auto Parts.Gil Elvgren\'s ability to capture the spirit and sensuality of American feminine beauty was unsurpassed. His pin-ups were pictures of real girls in real, everyday situations. Sometimes they were a bit exaggerated, but they always worked.When Elvgren was once asked what feature of a model most interested him, he replied, \"A gal with highly mobile facial features capable of a wide range of expressions is the real jewel. The face is the personality.\" The model was the all-important factor in making a painting strong. He preferred young models (15 to 20 years old) just starting their careers, and valued models who were enthusiastic and interested in the project, though he said that they were very hard to find.When asked about his techniques, he explained the distinctive \"touches\" he added to every painting how he built up the bust, lengthened the legs, pinched in the waist, gave the body more hyper-defined curves, worked over the facial features and expression, added just a little more of a tip and tilt to the nose, made the mouth fuller and the eyes a bit larger. He ended by saying that he liked to create the feeling that, underneath all the surface charms, there was a delicious warmth of mischief behind the model\'s eyes.The distinguishing mark of Elvgren\'s pin-ups compared with those of his contemporaries is that the Elvgren Girls looked like real people. At any moment, the girl might step out of the painting and say good morning or good night or offer the viewer a cup of coffee, a drink, or an invitation.Elvgren Girls had personality and zest; they were lively, friendly beauties brimming with enthusiasm. They were sweet-faced, but also generously endowed by nature. They could easily kindle a twinkle in anyone\'s eye and often had one in their own. For more than thirty years, from the 1940s to the 1960s, they epitomized the American Girl.Elvgren is the subject of several recent books and his painting \"Anchors a Wow\" serves as cover art for Taschen\'s 1996 monograph \"The Great American Pin-Up\" by Charles Martignette and Louis Meisel.******************** Paypal Buyers Are Invited To grapefruitmoongallery\'s Fresh sale Weekly Newsletter