"Couple Under Loggia" Lot no. 31
By Dean Cornwell (American- 1892-1960)
34.00" x 30.00", Framed 41.50" x 37.50"
Oil on Canvas
Signed Lower Left
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Story illustration for The Torrent, image of man and woman in outdoor setting.
Exhibited:
Masters of the Golden Age: Harvey Dunn and His Students
South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings, South Dakota
May 5, 2015 - September 13, 2015
Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Massachusetts
November 7, 2015 - March 13, 2016
Nicknamed "The Dean of Illustrators" by his peers. A cartoonist at 18 for Louisville Herald. By 1911 he was in the Chicago Tribune's Art department while studying at the city's Art Institute. In 1915, a student of Harvey Dunn, he in turn taught artists and developed talents for a generation. Oils for Cosmopolitan, Redbook, True, American Weekly, Life, Good Housekeeping. Book art for Man from Galilee and others. Ad contracts for GM, Eastern, Pennsylvania Railroad, Paul Jones Whiskey, Aunt Jemima, Seagram's Gin, Woodbury Soap, Palmolive, Coke, Goodyear, New York Life, Squibb. Excellent muralist after a stay in London with Frank Brangwyn and in 1927 began a five-year period of mural painting in California including the Los Angeles Public Library and the Lincoln Memorial Shrine in Redlands. Other murals: Rockefeller Center, Bethlehem Steel, New York's General Motors Building, 1939 World's Fair.
Exhibitions:
Norman Rockwell Museum Exhibition at South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings, South Dakota, May 5, 2015 - September 13, 2015
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