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Arthur Radebaugh's Flashy Future (and Present)
Arthur Radebaugh (1906-1974) had the tools to be an industrial designer or car stylist, as practiced in the 1930s and 40s. Â If not, he could have made a living making presentation illustrations in...
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Rockwell Kent Paintings
Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) was a well-known painter and illustrator. Â I wrote about his illustraton work here. Â This lengthy Wikipedia entry provides backgound information.It seems Kent was highly...
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Ronald McLeod's Moderne-Poster Style Illustration
I don't have much background information on Ronald McLeod (1897-1977). Â He attended the University of Chicago for two years, served in the Canadian army during the Great War, and then began his career...
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Mystic-Symbolist-Moderne Nicholas Roerich
Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947), also Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerikh (in Russia), was, according to this lengthy Wikipedia entry, a "painter, writer, archaeologist, theosophist, philosopher, and public...
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Frederic Mizen's Chevrolet Advertising Art
Frederic Kimball Mizen (1888-1964) was doing very well as an illustrator by the time he was 40, having created advertising art for leading brands such as Coca-Cola and the subject of this post,...
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Albert Dorne Drawings
I wrote about the successful, prolific illustrator Albert Dorne (1906-1965) here, featuring some of the many crowd scenes he depicted. Â I got to thinking about Dorne again because a recent issue of...
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Ernest Hamlin Baker's Fortune Magazine Covers
Ernest Hamlin Baker (1889-1975) is probably best known for the many cover portraits he made for Time Magazine 1940-1955. Â I wrote about him here, and background information is here.Although Baker was...
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Gaspar Camps and His Women
Not long ago I was in London's Prince Edward Theatre.  It dates from 1930, having Art Deco and Moderne interior décor in places such as the lounge pictured above.Note the framed print at the left...
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Frank Quail, 1920s Automobile Advertising Illustrator
Frank Quail is another of those illustrators for whom information on the Internet is lacking. Â One reason might be his name. Â When surfing images, I usually get a large number of images of quails --...
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Walter Schnackenberg Poster Art
Walter Schnackenberg (1880-1961) seems to be best known for his poster art. Â His brief Wikipedia entry here mentions:"He ... designed stage sets, theatre costumes and posters, including a signed one...
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Bruno Paul's Illustrations
Bruno Paul (1874-1968) was an artistic all-rounder, something seldom seen in today's world of specialization. Â According to his Wikipedia entry, he was an architect, interior and furniture designer, as...
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Charles Atamian's Beach Scenes
Charles Garabed Atamian (1872-1947), of Armenian descent, was born in Turkey, educated in Constantinople and Italy. Â For a few years he was chief designer at a Constantinople porcelain works, but fled...
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I finally found Hubert Vos'"Harmonie" !!
In 2011 I was in the lobby of the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Honolulu and glanced into an art gallery that was there at the time (long gone now). Â Against the far wall was a large (72 x 44 1/4 in., 182.9...
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Hubert Vos Footnote: A Painting within a Painting
My previous post, here, failed to note an interesting detail in its featured painting.According to Hubert Vos' Wikipedia entry, he sometimes made copies of his paintings while living in Asia -- one for...
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Walter Biggs'"Impressionist" Illustrations
Walter Biggs (1886-1968) was an important Amercan illustrator whose peak career years were from the late 1910s to well into the 1930s. Â In 2012 I posted about him here. Â A brief Wikipedia entry is...
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More C.C. Beall Illustrations
I last wrote here about illustrator C.C. (Cecil Calvert) Beall. Â Since then, more biographical information has appeared on the Internet. Â Also, more images of his work. Illustration Magazine's Issue...
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Harry Timmins, Prolific and Versatile Illustration
Harry Laverne Timmins (1887-1963) had a good run as an illustrator. Â That's because he was highly competent and versatile stylistically. Â Which was why he was prolific, keeping busy even during the...
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Ryan Morse, Painter-Illustrator
Ryan Morse (1988 - ), website here, is a Denver-based artist and illustrator with a bold, representational style. I find his work interesting and well-made. Â Take a look.Gallery
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More Frederick Mizen Illustration Art
Frederic Kimball Mizen (1888-1964) had a long career in illustration and fine arts. Â Although he never achieved the popularity of Norman Rockwell, John La Gatta, Maxfield Parrish and J.C. Leyendecker,...
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Harry Morse Meyers, Illustrator
Harry Morse Meyers (1886-1961 or perhaps 1962) had a reasonably successful career as an illustrator. Â Biographical information on the Internet is essentially non-existent, as best I can tell following...
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