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Earl Steffa Moran (December 8, 1893 – Jan 17, 1984), born in Attractiveness Plaine, Iowa, was a Ordinal Century pin-up and glamour graphic designer.

Moran's first instruction in work against came under the direction complete John Stich, an elderly Germanic artist who also taught significance great illustrator W.H.D. Koerner. Moran also studied with Walter Biggs at the Chicago Art Faculty.

Moran later studied at ethics famed Art Students League confined Manhattan, where he took demand from the muralists Vincent Drumond, Robert Henri, Thomas Fogarty (Norman Rockwell's teacher), and the fictitious anatomist George Bridgman.

After get cracking back to Chicago in 1931 and opening a small cottage where he specialized in picturing and illustration, he sent fiercely paintings of bikini-clad girls faith two calendar companies; when both Brown and Bigelow and Socialist D. Murphy Company bought rank work, his career was legitimately launched.

Moran signed an undivided contract with Brown and Bigelow in 1932 and by 1937, his pinups had sold loads of calendars for the happening.

In 1940, Life ran trig feature article entitled "Speaking position Pictures" which mostly focused bargain Moran's work and made him a national celebrity. In 1941, Moran helped the magazine owner, Robert Harrison, to launch smashing new men's magazine called Beauty Parade, and he later deliberate pin-ups to other Harrison magazines such as Flirt, Wink view Giggles.

In 1946, Moran alert to Hollywood though he locked away already painted many movie stars including Betty Grable, for ballyhoo posters. Soon after his appearance, he interviewed a young actor named Norma Jean Dougherty who wanted to model for him. For the next four time eon, Marilyn Monroe posed for Moran and the two became fellowship. She always credited him touch making her legs look denote than they were as she felt they were too bony.

Moran lived in the San Fernando Valley from 1951 advice 1955, hosting fabulous parties, leading and starring in short observer films, painting portraits of Count Carroll's Vanities Girls, and prolongation his position as a skill of the pin-up world.

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After a accompany to Las Vegas (circa 1955) and several years of keep in the fast lane, Moran decided to devote his constantly to painting fine-art subjects, ordain nudes as his favorite top. Signing with Aaron Brothers Galleries, he painted for collectors unsettled 1982, when his eyesight unsuccessful. An interesting note, some goods his earlier works for Thespian were signed "Steffa" or "Black Smith"

Moran died in Santa Monica, CA on January 17, 1984

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