On this day, September 6, 1876, artist, illustrator, and cartoonist Boardman Robinson was born in Somerset, Nova Scotia. Robinson studied at the Massachusetts College of Art and later in Paris. After Paris Robinson lived in New York City and worked for the New York Morning Telegraph and various magazines. Eventually he took a staff job at the
Jessie Willcox Smith (1863-1935) ‘Then the Scholar’ With eyes severe, and hair of formal cut.’ 1908-09 Black and white poem illustration for ”The Seven Ages of Childhood” by Carolyn Wells in Ladies’ Home Journal (April 1909) and color version of illustration in Carolyn Wells, The Seven Ages of Childhood (New York: Moffat, Yard &
On this day, September 5, 1956, illustrator and author Howard Wandrei died in St. Paul, Minnesota. Wanderi wrote over 200 stores that appeared in various pulp and other magazines under his own name or his pseudonyms. Many of his illustrations were created for various books produced by his brother Donald Wanderi.
On this day, September 4, 1994, illustrator Robert Weaver died in New York City. Weaver studied at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, the Art Students League in New York and at the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Venice. In addition to creating illustrations for Fortune, Life, Look, and Playboy magazines, Weaver also taught at the School
On this day, September 3, 1905, Eric Larson was born in Cleveland, Utah. Larson worked as an animator for Disney Studios working on such films as Snow White, Fantasia, Dumbo, and many others. He was one of “Disney’s Nine Old Men.” In the early 1970s Larson began recruiting and training a new generation of Disney animators.
On this day, September 2, 1878, illustrator Frederick Waite Starmer was born in Leeds, England. He immigrated to New York City in 1899 and worked as a commercial artist producing copious sheet music illustrations along with his brother. He returned to England in 1929.
On this day, September 1, 1959, Joe Jusko was born in New York City. Jusko studied at the High School of Art and Design. He has worked in commercial illustration and as an artist for a variety of comics companies. Jusko also was a New York City police office, but returned to illustration, creating the Police
On this day, August 31, 1886, illustrator and author Conrad Buff was born in Speicher, Switzerland. He emigrated to the U.S. when he was 19 years old and after marrying Mary Marsh Buff they jointly produced a wide variety of children's story books and the illustrations. He also produced illustrations for magazines.
On this day, August 30, 1896, illustrator Charles Stanley Reinhart died in New York City. Reinhart studied at the Atelier Suisse in Paris and at the Munich Academy. He contributed illustrations to the leading American periodicals of the day as well as for books such as Charles Dickens’s Hard Times.
On this day, August 29, 1950, illustrator Dan Sayre Groesbeck died in Los Angeles, California. Mostly a self-taught artist, Groesbeck went to work as an illustrator for the Los Angeles Morning Herald. He lived for a time in San Francisco and travelled widely, but came back to L.A. He taught at the Chouinard Art Institute