On this day, September 10, 1883, illustrator Richard V. Culter was born in Peoria, Illinois. Culter studied at the Art Students League in New York and after further training in Paris worked as an illustrator for popular magazines and creating advertising images. In the mid to late- 1920s, Culter created a series of illustrations for Life
On this day, September 9, 1878, Dan Sayre Groesbeck was born in California outside of San Francisco. He trained at the Throop Polytechnic Institute in Pasadena and at the California School of Design. Groesbeck worked as an illustrator for the Los Angeles Morning Herald and a variety of popular magazines. In the 20s Groesbeck worked for
On this day, September 8, 1936, science fiction and fantasy illustrator Don Ivan Punchatz was born in Hillside, New Jersey. After studying at the School of Visual Arts and Cooper Union in New York, Punchatz served in the army and worked as a medical illustrator and produced animated training films. In the 60s his art work
On this day, September 7, 1917, artist and sometime illustrator Jacob Lawrence was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey. As a young boy, his mother enrolled him in classes at an arts and crafts settlement house in Harlem. He later studied at the Harlem Community Art Center and the American Artists School. In 1941 his images of
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
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