Earl Moran’s carreer started in the 30’s when he has started to work on calendars for Thomas D. Murphy and Bigelow and Brown. Bigelow and Brown has taken the observe of him and offered a contract after what he became one of the most famous living illustrator in 1940. He often use pastel but of course use oil too on his paintings.

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After 1940 his wife accused him to beguile one of his model and divorced. Then he moved to Hollywood and observed his most famous model Norma Jean Dougherty( she was known later as Marilyn Monroe :)) In the 1946-1950 period he made tousands of works on Norma for example the picture you see below.

He works also with photos to take an attitude or a pose for his paintings. See this video:

Gil Elvgren started his carreer at the Stevens and Gross advertisement agency and studied the essence of the profession with Haddon Sundblom. Haddon Sundblom was noted for his Coca Cola advertisments especially with the Santa Claus campaign what he made himself. There were many artists who worked with Sundblom, pin-up artists too like Al Bruell, Joyce Ballantyne (he made the famous Coppertone advertisment with the dog who try to pull off a girl’s panties) and the comics drawer, illustrator Andrew Loomis.
In the late 30’s, Elvgren started to make girl next door pin-up calendars for Louis F. Dow and later for Bigelow and Brown. Elvgern has a special style called “mayonnaise”. This means beautiful, shiny style with rich tones of shade. Elvgren’s subjects visualises the same, the american dream as Norman Rockwell’s works( his girls were THE girl next door girls with totally innocence sometimes without clothes).

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And here comes the beauties :

The classic pinup girl on bear-skin
Yes, this subject and she is iconic. This was the “Bareback” a very grateful subject where the relationship is really interesting between the beautiful girl in underwear and the bear-skin-symbolize the wild animal and temperament. Innocence and wild things together.

To be continued
Ghoulina von Royal

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