eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 4j023 AL MOORE 11x16 Esquire Girl calendar 1949 featuring a different sexy pin-up for every month! Date Sold 2/20/2018Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Esquire Girl Calendar (measures 11" x 15 3/4" [28 x 40 cm]; 12 pages) (Learn More) Al Moore was a pin-up artist and illustrator from the 1930s to the 1960s. After attending classes at Chicago's Art Institute and Academy of Art, he opened a commercial art studio in New York in the late 1930s. By the mid 1940s, his clients included major companies like Galey and Lord, Beauty Counselors, the Viscole Corporation and Champion Spark Flags. During the war years, Moore painted posters for the government and also took on assignments from Gold cigarettes, Cosmopolitan, The Saturday Evening Post and Collier's. Advertising work for U.S. Rubber, Nash automobiles, and Coca-Cola led, in 1946, to Moore's breakthrough assignment, he was chosen by Esquire to replace Alberto Vargas, the most popular pin-up artist of the day. Among Moore's triumphs at the magazine were his creation of the Esquire Girl (his answer to the Varga Girl), the 1948 Esquire calendar, and the rare honor of painting the entire 1949 and 1950 calendars himself. By 1950, his two-page gatefolds in Esquire were collected by millions of Americans. He passed away in 1991, and sadly, no one knows when he was born. Artist: Al Moore Important Added Info: Note: We have 14 images of the special posters in this set, but due to a space limitation, only TEN of the 14 images are displayed above. However, there is a "supersize" link to the right of those images that lets you see the other 4. Note that this spiral-bound calendar comes with the great printed full-color envelope (see our images). Condition: good to very good. The calendar is in pretty nice condition. The envelope has tears and paper loss around the edges (see our images). Learn More about condition grades
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