Gil Elvgren The Complete Pin Ups 25th Anniversary Edition TP
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This item is not available online, but it may be available at one of our NYC stores. Please call us at 800-411-3341, or 212-302-8192 (if you're calling within NYC). If we have the item you can order by phone for home delivery or in-store pickup. Post-depression America was in desperate need of a defining iconography that would lift it out of the black and white doldrums, and it came in theform of Gil Elvgren's Technicolor fantasies of the American dream. His technique which earned him a reputation as "The Norman Rockwell of cheesecake" involved photographing models and then painting them into gorgeous hyper-reality, with longer legs, more flamboyant hair and gravity-defying busts, and in the process making them the perfect moral-boosting eye-candy for every homesick private.
