Gil Elvgren was an American artist born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1914. He became one of the most famous pin-up and glamour artists of all time, known for his iconic images of the all-American ...

“A lot of the pin-up artists worked in pastels,” says Louis Meisel, one of New York’s best-known gallery owners and a co-author of Gil Elvgren: The Complete Pin-Ups, the definitive book on ...

Anyone who's familiar with pin up paintings will know the caricature ... but also where Gil exaggerated features best to comic effect. The artist's painted ladies feature nipped-in waists ...

Ramos originally showed with Leo Castelli, but the gallery wasn’t interested when the artist started focusing on more overtly sexual female nudes, satirizing the traditional commercial pin-up girl.

These images of woman are the antecedents of the "pin-up," fantasy drawings and paintings of semi-clad (and sometimes nude) women. The Selby Gallery at the Ringling School of Art and Design is ...

“Welcome Traveler: A Pin-Up Journey” features original calendar illustrations from the 1920s-1950s by artists including Earl Moran, Rolf Armstrong, Enoch Bolles and Gil Elvgren, along with ...

In doing so, the pin-up's programmer created the world's earliest known figurative computer art, and quite possibly the first image of a human being on a computer screen. In early 1959 ...

There was no Pin Up art in Soviet times. Due to the devastation of World War II, Russian women in the '40s and '50s were taught to be tough and work hard. Russia never had the chance to enjoy the ...