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Description
Pin-up girl catching smoke from a BBQ using her dress. Titled 'Smoke Screen’. Image by Elvgren.
“We’re afraid the boys at this Bar-B-Que are apt to wind up with smoke in their eyes. Unless, of coursed, they are content to sit behind the “Smoke Screen”!…”
Ink blotter for 3 months February to April 1960.
Calgary Drafting and Blue Print Co. Ltd 615 8th Ave. West Calgary Alberta
Printed in Canada 39-304-11 Created by Brown & Bigelow St. Paul’s Minn. USA
Unused.
3 ⅞” x 9”
Gillette Elvgren (1914 – 1980) 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.
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