""A Sweet Job," Original illustration for the Brown & Bigelow Calendar Compa"   Lot no. 3285

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By Earl Moran (1893-1984)

circa 1940 (Estimated)
24.00" x 17.25"
Pastel on Board
Signed Left Center
SOLD

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Accompanied by a calendar dated 1942 advertising Supreme Power Supplies Limited, with anti-axis WWII copy asking that no dictators apply for the job, and a published mutoscope card, both bearing this image.



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ABOUT THE ARTIST

 

Earl Steffa Moran was born in Belle Plain, IA on Dec. 8, 1893. Artistically inclined as a child, Moran was influenced by the work of Charles Dana Gibson and James M. Flagg. Opting for an art career, he studied at the AIC and in NYC at the ASL and Grand Central School. In the 1930s he moved to California and settled in Los Angeles. Tiring of commercial work, he began dabbling in pastels of beautiful women a la Petty and Vargas. The calendar company Brown & Bigelow reproduced these pastels which brought him great success. He died in Los Angeles on Jan. 7, 1984.