On this day, November 10, 1878, William Waud died in New York. Born in England and trained as an architect, Waud came to America and began working for Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper as a staff illustrator. In 1864 Waud went to work for Harper's. Many of his field sketches done during the Civil are in
On this day, November 9, 1847, Mary Hallock Foote born Milton-on-the-Hudson, New York. After studying at Cooper Union in New York, Mary Hallock began illustrating for a publisher Fields, Osgood,and Co., and for Harper's. She married Arthur Foote, a mining engineer, and moved west with him. Out west she recorded her travels and experiences and
On this day, November 8, 1955, illustrator and muralist Allen Tupper True died in Colorado Springs, Colorado. True studied art at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C., with Frank Brangwyn, and with Howard Pyle in Wilmington, Delaware. True specialized in illustrating frontier life, cowboys, and indians.
On this day, November 7, 1874, John Wolcott Adams was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. An illustrator who specialized in ink drawings, Adams preferred to portray American historical imagry. After studying in Boston and New York, Adams went to Wilmington, Delaware where he studied and work as an assistant teacher for Howard Pyle.
On this day, November 6, 2001, Gray Morrow (Dwight Graydon Morrow) died in Kunkletown, Pennsylvania. Morrow was a cartoonist and illustator for paperback covers and science fiction magazines such as Galaxy and If.
On this day, November 5, 1979, cartoonist Al Capp(born Alfred Gerald Caplin) died in South Hampton, New Hampshire. Lil' Abner was Capp's most famous creation which ran from 1934 through 1977.
On this day, November 3, 1889, illustrator Philip W. Prugh was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Between 1912 and 1932, Prugh lived in Chicago and created illustrations for periodicals such as Cosmopolitan, The Rotarian, and The Chicago Tribune.
On this day, November 2, 1989, illustrator John Ford Clymer died in Wyoming. Clymer spent his early career working in Canada, returning to the U. S. in the fall of 1937 to live in Westport, Connecticut. He worked with a variety of popular magazaines and illustrated 80 covers for The Saturday Evening Post.
John McClelland (b. 1919); Ballet Class, 1951; Story illustration for Woman’s Day (November 1951) Woman’s Day magazine emerged in 1936 as a publication with a commercial focus based on values such as homemaking, food, nutrition, physical fitness, physical attractiveness, and fashion. Similarly to McCalls, it shares traits with the other “Seven Sisters”
On this day, November 1, 1901, illustrator Walter M. Baumhofer was born in Brooklyn, New York. After studying at Pratt Institute, Baumhofer went on to illustrate for pulp magazines and later for the mainstream popular press like Collier's, Cosmopolitan, and Woman's Day magazines.