Coca-Cola ads by Gil Elvgren

October 9th, 2010   |   3 Comments   |   1930 – 1950

Gil Elvgren – a student of Haddon Sundblom, Elvgren is perhaps best known for drawing and painting pin-up girls. His style was so similar to Sundblom’s that he could finish paintings that his mentor had started. Working with Sundblom Gil Elvgren contributed to various Coca-Cola ads himself.
The first advertising artwork for Coca-Cola that Elvgren worked on was in 1939. It is a scene of a pilot and a flight attendant in an airport snack bar having a Coca-Cola with a plane flying past the window behind them.

"Take of... refreshed" 1939 by Gil Elvgren

"Take of... refreshed" 1939 by Gil Elvgren


"The Pause That Refreshes" 1939 by Gil Elvgren

"The Pause That Refreshes" 1939 by Gil Elvgren


"Home refreshment" 1944 by Gil Elvgren

"Home refreshment" 1944 by Gil Elvgren

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