Brown & Bigelow

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Brown & Bigelow of St. Paul, Minn. is the art company that published Rolf Armstrong, Gil Elvgren, Vaughn Alden Bass, Mabel Rollins Harris, and Norman Rockwell. In the late 1940s, it was one of the biggest calendar printers in the world,[1] employing some of the United States' best pin-up artists and putting calendars into an estimated 50 million homes.[2]

Norman Rockwell's self-portrait Beyond the Easel with Boy Scouts (1969 Boy Scouts of America calendar by Brown & Bigelow)
Norman Rockwell's self-portrait Beyond the Easel with Boy Scouts (1969 Boy Scouts of America calendar by Brown & Bigelow)

Beginning in 1925, Brown & Bigelow published calendars for the Boy Scouts of America, many of which were illustrated by Norman Rockwell. In 1969, as a tribute to Rockwell's 75th year birthday that year, officials of Brown & Bigelow and the Boy Scouts of America asked Rockwell to pose in this calendar illustration (pictured).[3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Berger, Warren (January 2001). "Schwag Bag". Wired 9 (01). 
  2. ^ "Great Moments in Schwag History" (January 2001). Wired 9 (01). 
  3. ^ William Hillcourt (1977). Norman Rockwell's World of Scouting. New York: Harry N. Abrams. ISBN 0810915820. 

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