For collectors of pin-up advertising ink blotters
Vaughan Alden Bass, Louis F. Dow Co., 1954
Technically this is a Gil Elvgren pin-up that has likely been “overpainted” by Vaughan Bass, something he was hired to do by the Louis F. Dow Co. when Elvgren left to work for competitor Brown & Bigelow. The original Elvgren pin-up was titled No Stares.
Pin-up by K. O. Munson, published by Brown & Bigelow, c. June 1948, #37646
Pin-up by Mauro Scali, Champion Series 7550 – Studio Sketch Girls, c. 1961
Earl Moran pin-up for Brown & Bigelow, September 1945, #35629
Pin-up art by Arnold Kohn for Gerlach-Barklow Co., 1956
Pin-up art by Al Buell published by Gerlach-Barklow Co., 1944
Pin-up by Ray App issued by the Thos. D. Murphy Company, March 1952
Gil Elvgren for Brown & Bigelow, c. 1950, #30532
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Pearl Frush for The Gerlach Barklow Co., c. 1950s
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