A Christmas Eve
A Christmas Eve (Waiting for Santa) c1954 by American Painter Gil Elvgren (1914 – 1980); painter, illustrator and pin-up girl artist.
A Christmas Eve shows a hot sexy blonde pin-up girl in a sheer white negligee with a red sash around her waist, is standing in front of a fireplace, decorated with Christmas ornaments with a bright burning roaring yellow fire.
In her left hand she is holding a white gift box wrapped in a red ribbon with a red bow that she is shaking near her left ear trying to determine what is inside.
In her right hand she is holding a blue gift box wrapped with a white ribbon and white bow by her hip.
To her left is a Christmas tree with colored glass bulbs hanging from its branches and three very large gift boxes tied with ribbons and bows; and on her left two other large gift boxes wrapped with ribbons and bows.
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Gillette A. Elvgren was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and attended University High School. After graduation, he began studying art at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
He later moved to Chicago to study at the American Academy of Art, and graduated from the Academy during the great depression, at the age of twenty-two.
After graduation Elvgren joined the stable of artists at Stevens and Gross, Chicago’s most prestigious advertising agency, and became a protégé of the artist Haddon Sundblom.
In 1937, Gil began painting calendar pin-ups for Louis F. Dow, one of America’s leading publishing companies, during which time he created about 60 pin-up girl works on 22″ × 28″ canvas and distinguished them by a printed signature.
Many of his pin-ups were reproduced as nose art on military aircraft during World War II; and it was around this time in 1944, that Elvgren was approached by the Brown and Bigelow Publishing Company; a firm that still dominates the field in producing calendars, advertising specialties and promotional merchandise.
The next year from 1945 until 1972, Elvgren was associated with the Brown & Bigelow publishing company, and began working with 24 inch by 30 inch canvases, a format that he would use for the next 30 years, and signed his work in cursive.
Elvgren was a commercial success. He lived in various locations, and was active from the 1930s to the 1970s. In 1951 he began painting in a studio in his home, then in Winnetka, Illinois, using an assistant to set up lighting, build props and scenes, photograph sets, and prepare his paints.
His clients included well known companies like Brown and Bigelow, Coca-Cola, General Electric and the Sealy Mattress Company, to name a few. In addition, during the 1940s and 1950s he illustrated stories for a host of magazines, such as The Saturday Evening Post and Good Housekeeping.
Among the models and hollywood legends Elvgren painted during his career included Myrna Hansen, Donna Reed, Barbara Hale, Arlene Dahl, Lola Albright and Kim Novak.
