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Rex of the calendar cuties: Pin-up girl artist Gil Elvgren (1962)

By Lorna Carroll & Photos past Bob Moreland – Tampa Bay Times (Florida) Dec 30, 1962

A dewy-eyed, curvacious lovely smiles sensuously from your new 1963 agenda. Before the yr is out, you'll see her glamorizing garages, diners and dens, making life a picayune more fun every time you wait at her.

She comes to you from the castor of Gil Elvgren, probably the world'due south most prolific artist of agenda girls. You've seen her stretched out on a daisy-strewn meadow, her sky-blue skirts up to her pretty knees; y'all've watched her sloshed with lather suds in a lite, niggling wooden tub smile her ever-seductive grinning.

Y'all've admired her long, lithe limbs outlined by flowing satin skirts or revealed through black, lacy underthings. You've establish her utterly irresistible, how ever she is dressed, any she is doing.

Elvgren, her creator, lives on Siesta Key near Sarasota. Under contract to Brown and Bigelow, the world'south No. 1 calendar house, since 1940, he paints about 18 devastating pivot-ups a yr. The job is enjoyable, he explains (probably the understatement of the New year's day) but it does tax his imagination.

How does he dream upward his ideas? It gets harder every year. Sometimes he will say to his wife, Janet, "For heaven'south sake, what shall I depict?" And then they'll talk it over together.

Once, late at nighttime, Janet institute him poring over a dictionary, trying to find some word that would inspire an idea. "I endeavor to get a daughter defenseless at some inopportune moment, which will immediately pass away," he explains. "It gives the moving-picture show life and naturalness.

"I can't follow any specific fashion tendency. If I were to put some empty-headed beehive hairdress or high styled shoes on a daughter, the vogue might be out of date when the calendar is published. I work several years alee — my 1965 agenda already is finished."

While all of Gil's poses are unlike, the similarity of confront and smile are the same. This is his trademark.

He doesn't care whether his model is alpine or short. "I tin can elongate or shorten her," he says, "cut her in at the waist, give her a pretty bust line, brand her anxiety smaller. The important matter is to get a daughter with a adept confront — one who can use her eyebrows and optics expressively. That's something your brush can't fake."

His models frequently are daughters of families he knows. A item model is his godchild, whom he has known since she was ten. "The old method of posing a model hours at a time is gone," Gil says. "You tin can't expect a girl to agree a difficult, uncomfortable pose for hours. I photograph my models, choose the photographs nosotros want, and pigment from them. Sometimes a calendar girl will have the head of ane model, the legs of another and the torso of a third."

For years, Gil Elvgren painted nudes for Brown and Bigelow. Then the company began making calendars and pamphlets for Catholic organizations, and took the nudes out of line.

A product of the Minneapolis Fine art Plant and the American Academy of Art, Gil originally wanted to be an builder. A successful creative person friend helped change his heed.

He chop-chop found a market for his work: He made $45 a painting on his first job. His bosses increased it to $1,000. Then Brown and Bigelow offered him an even more lucrative contract.

Pin-ups haven't been his only specialty. His wonderful girls have advertised well-known beers and soft drinks, and he has made billboards and illustrated for the state'due south leading magazines.

Married to his high school sweetheart, he has iii children, Karen, who married last September, Rocky, a student at Tulane and Drake, who attends Manatee Junior College.

His home, designed by himself, is ane of the most bonny on Siesta Key. He collects guns, enjoys boating, plays golf and is a chess expert. He has no particular piece of work schedule.

"It's wonderful to work free," he exclaims. There is a saying, popular among artists: "He who can paint the beautiful woman need never want for much." Gil Elvgren, with a bow to his beautiful pin-ups, no doubt agrees.

A pretty vintage calendar daughter past Gil Elvgren

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