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The Artist Freeman Elliot (b.1922)
Freeeman Elliot
Elliot is best known for the three Artist's Sketch Pads he illustrated for Brown and Bigelow from 1949 to 1951. Each page of these twelve-page calendars had a primary pin-up figure surrounded by several razor-crisp side sketches commenting in some way on the main picture. The large pin-up was painted in gouache, Elliot's favourite medium, the smaller sketches done in pencil.

Born in 1922 in a suburb of Chicago, Elliot apprenticed at the Stevens/Gross studio, where he had the opportunity to learn from Gil Elvgren, Joyce Ballantyne, Al Buell, and Haddon Sundblom. Shortly after serving in the Navy in World War 11, he was commissioned by Brown and Bigelow to create two sets of double card decks: Winning Aces and Hit the Deck became runaway best-sellers. In 1953, Elliot's work appeared on Brown and Bigelow's successful Ballyhoo Calendar, along with that of Esquire artists Al Moore, Ernest Chiriaka, Eddie Chan, and Ward Brackett. Millions of Americans saw his pin-ups on the covers of Hearst's Pictorial Weekly during the 1950s.

Though often amusing, his pin-ups could also be sexy and sensual. Elliot, who was represented by Stevens/Gross, had a cross-over career that encompassed front covers for national magazines, story illustrations, and advertising art.

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Freeman Elliot biography borrowed from The Great American Pin-up by Charles G. Martignette and Louis K. Meisel. This may be purchased from The Pin-up Store:

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Title I've' Cleaned Out The Bank To Play Santa Claus Grandfather Always Said I Was A Good Looker I Hope Santa Won't Overlook These Who Said That???
. Iv'e Cleaned Out The Bank To Play Santa Claus
Date Unknown		 Granfather Always Said I Was A Good Looker
Date Unknown		 I Hope Santa Won't Overlook These
Date Unknown		 Who Said What???
Date Unknown
Title Can You Tie This? There's Room For One More I'll Get A Lot Of Ribbon For This How Am I Doing?
. Can You Tie This?
Date Unknown		 There's Room For One More
Date Unknown		 I'll Get A Lot Of Ribbon For This
Date Unknown		 How Am I Doing?
Date Unknown
Title Three's A Crowd That Must Have Been A Rip Tide Unknown Hit The Deck
. Three's A Crowd
Date Unknown		 That Must Have Been A Rip Tide
Date Unknown		 Unknown
Date Unknown		 Hit The Deck
Date Unknown
Title Winning Aces Unknown . .
. Winning Aces
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