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Artist: Gillette Elvgren

Vintage 'Dipsy Doodle' Calendar Tri-fold

Guaranteed Vintage ~~ Near Mint

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Gil Elvgren was a great pin-up artist and a master storyteller...the Norman Rockwell of cheese-cake. His heroines are often caught in humorous but distressing situations that cause their skirts to rise and our eyes to follow.

Elvgren looked for models with vitality and personality, and chose young girls who were new to the modeling business. He felt the ideal pin-up was a fifteen-year-old face on a twenty-year-old body, so he combined the two.

An Elvgren model was never portrayed as a femme fatale. She is, rather, the girl next door whose charms are revealed in that fleeting instant when she's been caught unaware in what might be an embarrassing situation. Gusting winds and playful plants grab at her lovely, long legs. She is intruded upon as she takes a bath. Her skirts get caught in elevator doors, hung up on faucets, and entangled with dog leashes. The elements conspire in divesting her of her clothing.