Pinup Girls 2015 Calendar featuring Pin Ups by Gil Elvgren.
Sweet and sassy 16-month wall calendar features the iconic Pin-Up Girl artwork of Gil Elvgren. It's printed on thick, cream-colored paper using soy-based inks and fine art printing techniques. Spend a whole year of good, clean fun getting to know Gil Elvgren's gorgeous gals in all their glamorous glory.
Size Closed: 12" x 12" (30×30cm)
Size Opened: 12" x 24" (30×60cm)
Gil Elvgren was one of the most important pin-up and glamour artists of the twentieth century. He was a master of portraying the feminine, but he wasn't limited to the calendar pin-up industry. He was strongly influenced by the early “pretty girl” illustrators, such as Charles Dana Gibson, Andrew Loomis, and Howard Chandler Christy. Other influences included the Brandywine School founded by Howard Pyle. Elvgren was a commercial success. His clients ranged from Brown & Bigelow and Coca-Cola to General Electric and Sealy Mattress Company. During the 1940s and 1950s he illustrated stories for a host of magazines, such as The Saturday Evening Post and Good Housekeeping. Although best known for his pin-ups, his work for Coca-Cola and others depicted typical Americans — ordinary people doing everyday things. The women Elvgren painted were never the femme fatale, the female adventuress, or somebody's mistress. They are the girl next door whose charms are innocently revealed in that fleeting instant when she is caught unaware in what might be an embarrassing situation.