On this day, July 2, 1967, Daren R. Dochterman was born. He studied at the University of Southern California. Dochterman has worked independently as a model builder, prop maker, and graphic artist before landing his first Hollywood job. He works as a motion picture production illustrator beginning with the pilot episode for Star Trek: Voyager. He
On this day, July 1, 1889, Todros Geller was born in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. Geller studied art in Odessa, Montreal and at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Best known as a printmaker in woodcut and etchings, Geller illustrated more than 40 books over his career.
On this day, June 30, 1904, author and illustrator Eleanor Frances Lattimore was born in Shanghai, China. Lattimore studied art in Oakland, California, in Boston and New York City. She was the author and illustrator for more than 50 popular children’s books and her first, Little Pear, is considered a children’s classic.
On this day, June 29, 1956, David Burroughs Mattingly was born in Fort Collins, Colorado. He trained at the Colorado Institute of Art and then in Pasadena at the Art Center College of Design. He worked for Walt Disney Studios but also accepted commissions for album covers and for book covers. Among his creations are the
On this day, June 28, 1854, illustrator Frances Isabelle (Lockwood) Brundage was born in Newark, New Jersey. Best remembered for her post card and calendar images, Brundage also did illustrations for Louisa May Alcott and Robert Louis Stevenson books.
On this day, June 27, 1946, illustrator and author Wanda Hazel Gág died New York City. The daughter of artists and photographers, Wanda Gág attended the Saint Paul School of Art in Minnesota and then the Art Students League in New York. Her Newbery award winning book Millions of Cats was published in 1928.
On this day, June 26, 1905, illustrator Lynd Ward was born in Chicago, Illinois. Ward studied art at Columbia Teachers College and for a year at the National Academy of Graphic Arts and Bookmaking in Leipzig. His illustrations were primarily produced by woodcuts. In 1929 Ward was inspired to create his own wordless novel, God’s Man:
On this day, June 25, 1874, Rose Cecil O’Neill was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and raised in Nebraska. He was largely self-taught. In 1893 she went east to New York City where she worked as a cartoonist eventually working for Puck magazine. O’Neill created the whimsical Kewpie characters which were made into dolls by a
On this day, June 24, 1925, illustrator John Wolcott Adams died in New York City. Descended from the American Adams family, Adams was a contemporary of Howard Pyle. John Wolcott Adams studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and then in New York at the Art Students League. He earned his
On this day, June 23, 1916, illustrator Gerald McCann was born in Queens, New York. McCann studied at Pratt Institute of Brooklyn and in 1939 he began to draw story illustrations for various pulp magazines. McCann served in the Army during WWII. After he continued his studies at the Art Students League of New York. During