Name: Gillette Elvgren (1914-1980)
Brand: Blanket Coverage (And Now's the Time to See if Frozen Assets Can Be Thawed)
Price: 42000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

Gillette Elvgren (1914-1980)
Blanket Coverage (And Now's the Time to See if Frozen Assets Can Be Thawed)
signed 'Elvgren' (lower left)
oil on canvas
30 x 24 in. (76.2 x 60.9 cm.)
Painted in 1952.

Heritage, Dallas, Texas, 18 February 2010, lot 87149.
American Illustrators Gallery, Inc., New York.
Acquired by the late owner from the above.

C.G. Martignette, L.K. Meisel, Gil Elvgren: All His Glamorous American Pin-Ups, Köln, Germany, 1999, pp. 104, 269, no. 241, illustrated.

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Gillette "Gil" Elvgren is best known today as America's preeminent pin-up artist of the twentieth century. As an American illustrator, he is widely known for his twenty-five year partnership with Coca-Cola during which he produced scenes of typical American family life as well as military subjects during World War II and the Korean War, in addition to his famous pin-up images. His now legendary series of pin-ups produced over a thirty year period for Brown & Bigelow calendars has largely defined his successful career.