On this day, June 22, 1885, illustrator Charles Archibald MacLellan was born in Trenton, Ontario, Canada. MacLellan studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and then in Wilmington, Delaware with Howard Pyle. MacLellan created cover and story illustrations for The Saturday Evening Post. His work was either humorous images of children being slightly
On this day, June 21, 1850, illustrator, author, and founder of the American Boy Scouts, Daniel Carter Beard was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. After attending art school in New York City, Beard began writing articles and in the 1880s he illustrated books for Mark Twain such as A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court and The
On this day, June 20, 1905, illustrator Charles Louis McCann was born in Cleveland, Ohio. McCann studied art at OhioStateUniversity and settled in New York City in 1930. Within a few years his work appeared on pulp magazines and eventually on the covers of various hard-bound and paperback books. In 1939 he returned to Ohio to
On this day, June 19, 1940, illustrator and actor Robert J. Wildhack died in Montrose, California. Wildhack studied in Indianapolis and then in New York with Robert Henri. By the teens, Wildhack was known as one of the top cover illustration and poster artists producing work for Scribner’s, Century, Collier’s and Life magazines. After moving to
On this day, June 18, 1949, author and illustrator Chris van Allsburg was born in East Grand Rapids, Michigan. After studying art at the University of Michigan and at RISD, Van Allsburg began working as a sculptor. He began illustrating and writing after his wife showed his pictures to a children’s book editor. Not only does
On this day, June 17, 1974, illustrator Roger T. Hane died in New York City after being beaten and robbed in Central Park. After art studies at the Maryland Institute of Art and the Philadelphia Museum School of Art, Hane began to produced magazine illustrations and cover illustrations for paperback books and record albums.
On this day, June 16, 1987, children’s book author and illustrator Marguerite de Angeli died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The daughter of a photographer/illustrator, Marguerite studied under Maurice Bower after her marriage and the birth of her children. By the 1920s she was working as an illustrator. The publication of her first book was in 1935 and in 1950
On this day, June 15, 1914, cartoonist and illustrator Saul Steinberg was born in Romania. After studying philosophy and architecture, Steinberg left Europe and came to the U. S. by way of the Dominican Republic. The New Yorker magazine sponsored his entry into the U. S. and over the course of the rest of his life
On this day, June 14, 1958, illustrator and author James Gurney was born in California. After his BA from the University of California, Berkeley, Gurney studied illustration at the Art Center College of Design. His illustration work encompasses covers for sci fi and fantasy paperbacks, stamp designs, illustrations for National Geographic magazine, and his own illustrated
On this day, June 13, 1946, muralist, architectural delineator, and illustrator Jules Guérin died in Neptune, New Jersey. Initially Guérin studied art in Chicago with Winsor McCay as his studio partner. In New York Guérin made is reputation as an architectural delineator for McKim, Mead and White and their friends. His fame as a colorist brought