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About the Cover About the Cover
Elvgren remained at Brown & Bigelow producing pinup art for more than thirty years. He also did national advertising for Ovaltine, Sealy Mattress Company, for General Electric’s war effort, illustrated articles for Good Housekeeping and The Saturday Evening Post, and created a 25-year series of works for Coca-Cola. Born in 1914 a few of Gil’s influences were the drawings of Charles Dana Gibson, Howard Chandler Christy, and Harrison Fisher. Over his lifetime, in addition to his billboard and calendar advertising work, Gil Elvgren produced art for playing cards, a letter opener sculpture and even lampshades! His heroines were often caught in humorous, but distressing situations, a fact that perhaps made his pictures so popular, and gained him the moniker of "The Norman Rockwell of Pinup Art," but Elvgren’s ability and techniques were also highly respected by his peers. There are numerous websites, the most extensive of which is www.gilelvgren.com, about this talented artist where you can view many of his drawings.
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cover this issue is an illustration by the prolific Gilette Elvgren, one
of America’s premier pinup artists. He began producing pinup girls for
the Louis F. Dow Calendar Company in St. Paul, MN in 1937. This
illustration, one of his earlier works called On De-Fence,
was created while at Dow in 1944 and before he moved to Brown &
Bigelow, a larger company that offered him more money.
