1. 23 Jun


    Hold Everything (1962). Gil Elvgren (1914-1980). Publisher: Brown & Bigelow. Librarian? The distinguishing mark of Elvgren’s pin-ups compared with those of his contemporaries is that the Elvgren Girls looked like real people. 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 All American Girl.

    Hold Everything (1962). Gil Elvgren (1914-1980). Publisher: Brown & Bigelow.

    Librarian?

    The distinguishing mark of Elvgren’s pin-ups compared with those of his contemporaries is that the Elvgren Girls looked like real people. 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 All American Girl.

     
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