Post-depression America was in desperate need of a defining iconography that would lift it out of the black and white doldrums, and it came in the form of Gil Elvgren's Technicolor fantasies of the ...
Gil Elvgren was an American artist born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1914. He became one of the most famous pin-up and glamour artists of all time, known for his iconic images of the all-American ...
Twenty-five years after his death, Gil Elvgren’s pinups still sizzle. A graduate of Chicago’s American Academy of Art, Gillette Alexander Elvgren painted everything from Coca-Cola ads to magazine ...
The market for vintage pinup art changed dramatically in June 2007 when the fourth of five Gil Elvgren paintings crossed the block during a Heritage Auctions sale in Dallas. At that time, the record ...