Marilyn Monroe

Attractive color oversized 16 x 33.5 Brown & Bigelow calendar for 1948 featuring artwork of Marilyn Monroe by glamour artist and pinup photographer Earl Moran. The calendar's large image, entitled ‘Maid in Baltimore,’ shows Monroe wearing a yellow two-piece bathing suit in a beautiful full-figure pose. The calendar was used by the New Jersey company Washington Auto Parts. All of the month pages are present. Rolled and in very good to fine condition, with some light creasing, and a small puncture and tear to the upper left corner.

Earl Moran, one of the great pinup artists of all time, hired Norma Jeane from the Blue Book Agency to model for him, paying her $10 an hour. Over the next three years, Moran would continue to hire Monroe, providing a fairly steady source of income for her during those erratic, early years. Monroe was once quoted as saying, ‘Earl saved my life many a time.’