Dean Cornwell
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| Dean Cornwell | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 5, 1892 Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. |
| 💀Died | December 4, 1960 (aged 68) New York City, U.S.December 4, 1960 (aged 68) |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Art Institute of Chicago |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Known for | Illustration, painting |
| Movement | Realism |
| 👩 Spouse(s) | Mildred Montrose Kirkham Cornwell (1893 - 1974) |
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Dean Cornwell (March 5, 1892 – December 4, 1960) was an American illustrator and muralist. His oil paintings were frequently featured in popular magazines and books as literary illustrations, advertisements, and posters promoting the war effort during World War II. Throughout the first half of the 20th century, he was a dominant presence in American illustration. At the peak of his popularity, he was nicknamed the "Dean of Illustrators".
Background[edit]
Cornwell was born in Louisville, Kentucky. His father, Charles L. Cornwell, was a civil engineer whose drawings of industrial subjects fascinated Cornwell as a child. He began his professional career as a cartoonist for the Louisville Herald. Soon thereafter, he moved to Chicago, where he studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and worked for the Chicago Tribune. In 1915, he moved to New Rochelle, New York, a well-known artist colony, and studied in New York City under Harvey Dunn at the Art Students League of New York. Eventually, he traveled to London to study mural painting as an apprentice to Frank Brangwyn.
Cornwell's paintings were featured in Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar, Redbook, and Good Housekeeping magazines, illustrating the work of authors including Pearl S. Buck, Lloyd Douglas, Edna Ferber, Ernest Hemingway, W. Somerset Maugham, and Owen Wister. He painted murals for the Los Angeles Public Library, the Lincoln Memorial Shrine in Redlands, California, and the Eastern Airlines Building (now 10 Rockefeller Plaza). His mural for the Los Angeles Public Library depicted the history of California. Cornwell's Feb 1953 cover of a riverboat for True magazine was later made into a U.S. postage stamp as part of the USPS's 2001 American Illustrators series.
Cornwell taught and lectured at the Art Students League in New York. He served as president of the Society of Illustrators from 1922 to 1926 and was elected to its Hall of Fame in 1959. In 1934, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate Academician and became a full Academician in 1940. He served as president of the National Society of Mural Painters from 1953 to 1957.
Artist and illustrator James Montgomery Flagg said, "Cornwell is the illustrator par excellence—his work is approached by few and overtopped by none...he is a born artist."
On December 3, Cornwell experienced severe abdominal pains and was admitted to Roosevelt Hospital for surgery but died at the operating table. Cornwell died on December 4, 1960, in New York City at the age of 68.
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