Description:Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Norman Rockwell, Coby Whitmore, Richard Amsel, Gregor Duncan, Bernard Krigstein, George Woodbridge, Zina Saunders, Richard Bassford, John Clymer, Norman Saunders, Seymour Chwast, Al Parker, Edd Cartier, Ellen Bernard Thompson Pyle, J. D. King, Edgar Franklin Wittmack, Walter Beach Humphrey, Roy Doty. Excerpt: Cover illustration by Al Parker for the February 1949 issue of Ladies' Home Journal Al Parker (1906 1985) was an American artist and illustrator, who was known as the "Dean of Illustrators." His display of talent as a teenager led his grandfather, who was a Mississippi River Pilot, to pay for Al's first year in Washington University 's School of Fine Arts in St. Louis, Missouri in 1922. He also played in a jazz band to earn money for tuition. He married a fellow student, Evelyn, and later joined with several former classmates to open an advertising agency in St. Louis. The business did not do well during the Great Depression, and Parker moved to New York City in 1935. Parker got a break when a cover illustration he did for House Beautiful won a national competition. He soon was producing illustrations for Chatelaine, Collier's, Ladies' Home Journal and Woman's Home Companion . Starting in 1938, he produced a total of 50 covers over a 13-year period for the Ladies' Home Journal . He also sold illustrations to Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, McCall's, The Saturday Evening Post, Sports Illustrated, Town and Country and Vogue . Parker is credited with creating a new school of illustration and was much imitated. In an effort to distinguish himself from his imitators, he worked in a variety of styles, themes and media. In cooperation with the magazine's art director, he secretly provided every illustration in an issue of Cosmopolitan, using different pseudonyms, sty...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with American Magazine Illustrators: Norman Rockwell, Coby Whitmore, Richard Amsel, Gregor Duncan, Bernard Krigstein, George Woodbridge. To get started finding American Magazine Illustrators: Norman Rockwell, Coby Whitmore, Richard Amsel, Gregor Duncan, Bernard Krigstein, George Woodbridge, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
72
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Books LLC
Release
2010
ISBN
1155833244
American Magazine Illustrators: Norman Rockwell, Coby Whitmore, Richard Amsel, Gregor Duncan, Bernard Krigstein, George Woodbridge
Description: Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Norman Rockwell, Coby Whitmore, Richard Amsel, Gregor Duncan, Bernard Krigstein, George Woodbridge, Zina Saunders, Richard Bassford, John Clymer, Norman Saunders, Seymour Chwast, Al Parker, Edd Cartier, Ellen Bernard Thompson Pyle, J. D. King, Edgar Franklin Wittmack, Walter Beach Humphrey, Roy Doty. Excerpt: Cover illustration by Al Parker for the February 1949 issue of Ladies' Home Journal Al Parker (1906 1985) was an American artist and illustrator, who was known as the "Dean of Illustrators." His display of talent as a teenager led his grandfather, who was a Mississippi River Pilot, to pay for Al's first year in Washington University 's School of Fine Arts in St. Louis, Missouri in 1922. He also played in a jazz band to earn money for tuition. He married a fellow student, Evelyn, and later joined with several former classmates to open an advertising agency in St. Louis. The business did not do well during the Great Depression, and Parker moved to New York City in 1935. Parker got a break when a cover illustration he did for House Beautiful won a national competition. He soon was producing illustrations for Chatelaine, Collier's, Ladies' Home Journal and Woman's Home Companion . Starting in 1938, he produced a total of 50 covers over a 13-year period for the Ladies' Home Journal . He also sold illustrations to Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, McCall's, The Saturday Evening Post, Sports Illustrated, Town and Country and Vogue . Parker is credited with creating a new school of illustration and was much imitated. In an effort to distinguish himself from his imitators, he worked in a variety of styles, themes and media. In cooperation with the magazine's art director, he secretly provided every illustration in an issue of Cosmopolitan, using different pseudonyms, sty...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with American Magazine Illustrators: Norman Rockwell, Coby Whitmore, Richard Amsel, Gregor Duncan, Bernard Krigstein, George Woodbridge. To get started finding American Magazine Illustrators: Norman Rockwell, Coby Whitmore, Richard Amsel, Gregor Duncan, Bernard Krigstein, George Woodbridge, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.