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Auction History Result 5m068 AL MOORE Esquire calendar 1951 featuring a different super sexy pin-up for every month! Date Sold 4/8/2018 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Esquire Calendar (measures 8 1/2" x 12" [22 x 30 cm]) (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 that the calendar is spiral-bound and it is complete. It DOES have the printed envelope that originally came with the calendar. Note: We have 15 images of the in this set, but due to a space limitation, only TEN of the 15 images are displayed above. However, there is a "supersize" link to the right of those images that lets you see the other 5. Note that this auction also includes the printed envelope this item originally came with! Condition: good to very good. The January page has triangular paper loss at bottom left, which affects the poem that nobody reads. There are some small tears around the edges of a few pages, and some stains on the blank final interior page. The printed envelope has creases and a few faint stains around the edges of both the front and back. Learn More about condition grades 
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