--- product_id: 14058830 title: "Gil Elvgren's Private Stock" price: "€ 196.84" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.es/products/14058830-gil-elvgrens-private-stock store_origin: ES region: Spain --- # Gil Elvgren's Private Stock **Price:** € 196.84 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Gil Elvgren's Private Stock - **How much does it cost?** € 196.84 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.es](https://www.desertcart.es/products/14058830-gil-elvgrens-private-stock) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description An immensely talented artist who enjoyed a prolific career, Gil Elvgren (1914–1980) was a master of the portrayal of the female form and one of the greatest maestros of the illustrated pin-up to have ever lived. Elvgren often painted from his own photographs, and the well-known images that exist of his models are from the middle and later period of his career--the 1950s onwards--and are generally always photographs of girls wearing, at least, a generous covering of lingerie. Collated here for the first time is Elvgren’s personal nude slide collection, previously only known to a handful of niche collectors. Still housed in original Realist slide boxes carrying Elvgren’s bold, early signature in large letters, the slides are a mix of stereoscopic 3D slides and regular 35mm. Although a few date into the 1960s, the vast majority relate to the early period of Elvgren’s career, from the 1940s to the early 1950s; a period when he was producing a greater volume of nude paintings and also honing his personal style. This fascinating and unique volume reproduces the images in stunning quality and is the lasting legacy of Elvgren’s slide collection. It builds a more complete picture of his artistic process and it offers a valuable insight into the development of glamour photography. However, its real beauty and impact lies in the knowledge that one of the greatest masters of the illustrated pin-up took his inspiration from the very real flesh of womanly curves in all of their natural glory. Review: Fascinating Collection - This book is a fascinating insight to a side of commercial art that rarely is examined — the artist's reference collections. We like to think that all of the pinup greats worked from life when, in fact, most worked from photographic references as any good commercial artist would. As a long-time fan of Elvgren's work, I found this collection of images rather interesting from a personal standpoint. These images were from his own, private, reference collection; and weren't necessarily intended for a finished piece. Those looking for a collection of images that can easily be identified with Elvgren's finished artwork will probably not enjoy this collection. I've read a couple of negative comments about this book and I think the commentor(s) were missing the point of why this collection was published. Personally, I thoroughly enjoy and appreciate the value of this book and am very happy to be able to add it to my library. Review: Fine Book, But... - It is a great and interesting bit of Gil Elvgren's "Private Stock ". The only imperfect thing about it is that I wish some of the photos were larger. Just in case you are unaware of who Gil Elvgren is and what he does and what his "Private Stock" is, here is some further information. In the era of great illustrators, which began fading because of the camera, along with Norman Rockwell, J. C. Leyendecker, Haddon Sundblom and the more serious book Illustrators such as Dean Cornwell/ Pruett Careter Mead Schaeffer, Walt Everett and any others Elvgren focused on lovely, innocent (and some not so innocent), female nudes often in whimsical situations. Elvgren `s work was mostly advertising, calendars, and whimsical magazine art, along with some book and other forms of pinup work. All of those I mention above did much the same ting but they did far more serious art, closer to and often art superior to that shown in art galleries as "fine art" in that era, in which mastery of excellence in figurative art belonged to illustrators many of which in the coming years became some of the best fine artists in America. Elvgren worked mostly from live models and photo's taken either by him or professional photographers under his direction for poses. His "Private Stock" is an array of literally hundreds of photos of nudes and semi-nudes, some gorgeously and bountifully endowed with female anatomical giftedness as well as others with the same degree of figurative perfection, but perhaps in need of his skills of turning a less than lovely face into that of a post teen age beauty. In paragraph 2 above, are the names of a few of my favorite illustrators, which can be found here at desertcart as well as elsewhere in books such as: The Illustrator in America By Walt Reed, and J. C. Leyendecker and many others. A note of perhaps interest: In my years of study of among other majors, architecture and art, between under grad school and Grad school, I spent 2.5 years and 1500 hours of figure and anatomy at the American Academy of Art, the studio's of Haddon Sundblom were just a few blocks away from the Academy, and some of us whose figure drawing work impressed him, were often invited to stop by and apprentice for a few days every now and then. It was a great opportunity for those who were invited and it gave us a good look at an era coming to a slow and then sudden end, the end for all practical purposes of that sort of pinup art and illustration art and the era of the camera. Sad day for many. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #2,845,267 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #403 in Nude Photography #1,428 in Individual Photographer Monographs #1,768 in Illustration and Graphic Design | | Customer Reviews | 4.0 out of 5 stars 27 Reviews | ## Images ![Gil Elvgren's Private Stock - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91pt6SSjgzL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fascinating Collection *by D***. on May 6, 2013* This book is a fascinating insight to a side of commercial art that rarely is examined — the artist's reference collections. We like to think that all of the pinup greats worked from life when, in fact, most worked from photographic references as any good commercial artist would. As a long-time fan of Elvgren's work, I found this collection of images rather interesting from a personal standpoint. These images were from his own, private, reference collection; and weren't necessarily intended for a finished piece. Those looking for a collection of images that can easily be identified with Elvgren's finished artwork will probably not enjoy this collection. I've read a couple of negative comments about this book and I think the commentor(s) were missing the point of why this collection was published. Personally, I thoroughly enjoy and appreciate the value of this book and am very happy to be able to add it to my library. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fine Book, But... *by P***O on February 8, 2014* It is a great and interesting bit of Gil Elvgren's "Private Stock ". The only imperfect thing about it is that I wish some of the photos were larger. Just in case you are unaware of who Gil Elvgren is and what he does and what his "Private Stock" is, here is some further information. In the era of great illustrators, which began fading because of the camera, along with Norman Rockwell, J. C. Leyendecker, Haddon Sundblom and the more serious book Illustrators such as Dean Cornwell/ Pruett Careter Mead Schaeffer, Walt Everett and any others Elvgren focused on lovely, innocent (and some not so innocent), female nudes often in whimsical situations. Elvgren `s work was mostly advertising, calendars, and whimsical magazine art, along with some book and other forms of pinup work. All of those I mention above did much the same ting but they did far more serious art, closer to and often art superior to that shown in art galleries as "fine art" in that era, in which mastery of excellence in figurative art belonged to illustrators many of which in the coming years became some of the best fine artists in America. Elvgren worked mostly from live models and photo's taken either by him or professional photographers under his direction for poses. His "Private Stock" is an array of literally hundreds of photos of nudes and semi-nudes, some gorgeously and bountifully endowed with female anatomical giftedness as well as others with the same degree of figurative perfection, but perhaps in need of his skills of turning a less than lovely face into that of a post teen age beauty. In paragraph 2 above, are the names of a few of my favorite illustrators, which can be found here at Amazon as well as elsewhere in books such as: The Illustrator in America By Walt Reed, and J. C. Leyendecker and many others. A note of perhaps interest: In my years of study of among other majors, architecture and art, between under grad school and Grad school, I spent 2.5 years and 1500 hours of figure and anatomy at the American Academy of Art, the studio's of Haddon Sundblom were just a few blocks away from the Academy, and some of us whose figure drawing work impressed him, were often invited to stop by and apprentice for a few days every now and then. It was a great opportunity for those who were invited and it gave us a good look at an era coming to a slow and then sudden end, the end for all practical purposes of that sort of pinup art and illustration art and the era of the camera. Sad day for many. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ WOW! *by P***M on January 25, 2013* The book arrived this morning and I simply can't put it down... I love the photos and the look/design and feel of this book. Beautiful reproductions of some killer photos. I absolutely love it! A must for any fan of Vintage Pin-Ups. 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