Gil Elvgren began his career with the Louis F. Dow Company in the 1930s but left for Brown & Bigelow over a contract dispute. Because Elvgren produced many popular pin-up paintings for Louis F. Dow Co., the company continued to use his works by having them overpainted and retitled by Vaughan Alden Bass to avoid copyright infractions after Elvgren left for the competition. Thus there are a number of “Elvgren-looking” ink blotters that are actually overpaints by Bass. Bass was an excellent artist in his own right and produced many great original pin-ups for the Louis F. Dow Co. See A Sheik Chick
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