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Gil (Gilette) Elvgren

Gil (Gilette) Elvgren (1914 - 1980) was active/lived in Illinois, Florida.  Gil Elvgren is known for Pin-up girl, illustration, landscape painting.

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Gil Elvgren was a great pin-up artist and a master storyteller whom some called "the Norman Rockwell of cheese-cake." His heroines are often caught in humorous but distressing situations that cause their skirts to rise and our eyes to follow.  Many of his commissions were with the Coca Cola company.

Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, Elvgren attended University High School, and after graduation, he began studying art at the Minneapolis Art Institute.  Some of Gil's fellow students were Coby Whitmore, Al Buell, Andrew Loomis, Ben Stahl and Robert Skemp, many who would later work for Coca Cola, as would Elvgren.

He graduated from the Institute during the Depression at the age of twenty-two and joined the stable of artists at Stevens and Gross, Chicago's most prestigious advertising agency.  He became a protégé of the monumentally talented Haddon Sundblom, who was most famous for his Coca Cola Santas.

In 1937, Gil began painting calendar pin-ups for Louis F   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 11104 characters.]  Artist bio

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Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Gil (Gilette) Elvgren available:    Rolf Armstrong,  Earl Steffa Moran,  Fritz Willis,  Alberto Vargas,  Peter Driben,  Enoch Bolles,  George Petty,  Zoe Mozert,  Hugh Ward,  Haddon Sunny Hubbard Sundblom,  Art Frahm,  Edward Runci,  Alfred Leslie Buell,  Frank Rudolph Paul,  Joseph Christian Leyendecker,  Amos Sewell,  Jessie Willcox Smith,  Edwin Georgi,  Patrick Nagel,  KO Knute Munson,  Leslie Thrasher,  Earl MacPherson,  Mead Schaeffer,  Charles Sheldon



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Gay Nymph , 1947

Gil (Gilette) Elvgren

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FASCINATION , 1952

Gil (Gilette) Elvgren

Lot 66097
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IT'S A SNAP (PRETTY SNAPPY; SNAP JUDGEMENT), 1958

Gil (Gilette) Elvgren

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Bear Facts (A Modest Look; Bearback Rider) , 1962

Gil (Gilette) Elvgren

Lot 71132
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Thinking of You (Retirement Plan), Brown & Bigelow calendar illustration , 1962

Gil (Gilette) Elvgren

Lot 78068
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SKIRTING THE ISSUE

Gil (Gilette) Elvgren

Lot 66099
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