- Brown & Bigelow
Brown & Bigelow of St. Paul, Minn. is the art company that published
Rolf Armstrong ,Gil Elvgren ,Vaughn Alden Bass ,Mabel Rollins Harris , andNorman Rockwell . In the late 1940s, it was one of the biggest calendar printers in the world,cite journal | last = Berger | first = Warren | year = 2001 | month = January | title = Schwag Bag | journal = Wired | volume = 9 | issue = 01 | url = http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.01/schwag.html | accessdate = 2006-08-13 ] employing some of theUnited States ' bestpin-up artists and putting calendars into an estimated 50 million homes.cite journal | year = 2001 | month = January | title = Great Moments in Schwag History | journal = Wired | volume = 9 | issue = 01 | url = http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.01/history.html | accessdate = 2006-08-13]Beginning in 1925, Brown & Bigelow published calendars for the
Boy Scouts of America , many of which were illustrated byNorman 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)". [cite book | author =William Hillcourt | title = Norman Rockwell's World of Scouting | publisher = Harry N. Abrams |location=New York | year = 1977 | isbn = 0810915820 ]References
External links
* [http://www.brownandbigelow.com/ Official site]
* [http://www.bandbmall.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=SFNT&Store_Code=WAW Archive of Brown & Bigelow art]
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