Gil Elvgren Pinups

Vintage Retro pin-up Girl Illustrations by Gil Elvgren. Pinups delighted the American public from the beginning of World War II until the great baby boom of the 1950s. Gil Elvgren (March 15, 1914 – February 29, 1980; born Gillette Elvgren) was an American painter of pin-up girls, advertising and illustration. Best known for his pin-up paintings for Brown & Bigelow, Elvgren studied at the American Academy of Art. 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.