Brown & Bigelow

Brown & Bigelow is a company based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, that sells branded apparel and promotional merchandise.

On June 24, 1924, Bigelow was convicted for tax evasion, fined ten thousand dollars, and sentenced to three years in Leavenworth Penitentiary.

[3] Following Bigelow's release, the company became notable for developing prototype convict rehabilitation programs through the hiring of hundreds of ex-convicts.

[5] In 1936 B&B's president Charlie Ward paid ten thousand dollars to artist Maxfield Parrish for exclusive rights to his work Peaceful Valley.

[5] The company has published artworks by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge (his sixteen-painting Dogs Playing Poker series), Rolf Armstrong, Gil Elvgren, Earl Moran, Vaughn Alden Bass, Mabel Rollins Harris, Douglass Crockwell, Emmett Watson, Norman Rockwell and Zoë Mozert.

A Friend in Need , 1903, by C. M. Coolidge from his Dogs Playing Poker series
Beyond the Easel , Norman Rockwell 's self-portrait with five Boy Scouts for Brown & Bigelow's 1969 Boy Scouts of America calendar