On this day, November 19, 1996, the illustrator Harry Anderson died. Born in Chicago, Anderson trained at the Syracuse School of Art where he met fellow student Tom Lovell. After school in 1931 they moved to New York. After some sales Anderson returned to Chicago.
On this day, November 18, 1866, Jules Guérin was born St. Louis, Missouri. Guérin worked in Chicago before he moved to New York City. He made is name as an architectural delineator and as an illustrator. His style is distinctive and his imagry of far-flung places compelling.
On this date, November 17, 1985, illustrator Richard Amsel died in New York. Amsel began making movie poster while he was still a student at the Philadelphia College of Art. He went on to have a career of designing movie poster and for doing cover portraits for TV Guide.
On this day, November 16, 1934, Alfredo Lutz Demorest died in Trinidad. Demorest was born in Santiago, Chile of American parents. After training and serving in the Diplomatic Service, he decided to study art, first at the School of the Boston Museum of the Fine Arts and then at the Art Students League of New
William Steig (1907-2003); Untitled [turkey with fortune teller], 1992; Cover illustration for The New Yorker; Ink and watercolor on paper; Norman Rockwell Museum Collection, gift of Jeanne Steig, NRM.2010.53.1.18 It doesn’t take a genius to figure out what will be happening to many of the farmed and wild turkeys of
On this day, November 15, 1913, illustrator Robert Edward Weaver was born in Peru, Indiana. Trained at the Herron School of Art in Indiana, Weaver worked as an illustrator for many popular magazines. After serving in WWII, Weaver returned to Indiana and taught at the Herron School of Art where he served as the chairman
On this day, November 14, 1887, illustrator George William Gage was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He studied at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School and then at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and finally with Howard Pyle at the Howard Pyle School of Art in Wilmington, Delaware. His career was noted for
On this day, November 13, 1981, Rivkah born in Austin, Texas. Rivkah is the creator of teen graphic novel Steady Beat.
On this day, November 12, 1844, Cash (Cassius Marcellus) Coolidge born in Antwerp, New York. Cash began his career drawing cartoons for a local newspaper. After 1903 Coolidge created as series of anthroprmorphic images of dogs, such as his many images of dogs playing poker for Brown & Bigelow calendars.
On this day, November 11, 1876, Ellen Bernard Thompson Pyle was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She studied with Howard Pyle at Drexel Institute and much later married Pyle's youner brother Walter. After her husband death, Ellen B. T. Pyle returned to work as an illustrator doing a variety of jobs including covers for The Saturday