Elaine studied at the High School of Music and Art in Manhattan, where she met John Duillo, who became an adventure fiction illustrator and gallery painter.
She began her career in 1959, illustrating adventure story magazines and Gothic novels.
[1] Duillo is known for her prolific, eye-catching, realism painting[4] for romance paperback covers.
[7] She worked for paperback publishers including Ace, Airmont, Avon, Balcourt Art Service, Bantam, Berkley, Crescent, Dell, Fawcett Gold Medal, Lancer, Penguin USA, Playboy Press, Pocket Books, New American Library and Zebra Kensington.
It is realistic, but upon closer inspection, my paintings portray a highly glamorized version of already attractive people and places that goes beyond realism."