""Birthdays For Everybody"" Lot no. 3787
By Orson Byron Lowell (1871-1956)
1915 (Estimated)
23.00" x 25.00"
Ink and Graphite on Paper
Signed Lower Left
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Illustration to accompany the article “Adventures in Growing Older: Being the Last of a Series of Adventures in Living” by Helen Ring Robinson for Life magazine, published 1915. Helen Ring Robinson (1878–1923), was an American suffragist, writer, and elected to public office in Colorado.
The full caption reads: “Birthdays for Everybody, Young and Old. No Mortal Complete Without Them”
While young children run to get gifts from Father Time, young women run away from him. Father Time holds up placards, age 20 is in his right hand and age 30 is in his left. Above him, in a series of hourglasses, the sands of time fall at different intervals.
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Orson Byron Lowell was the son of the landscape painter, Milton H. Lowell, and his father encouraged his early efforts by expecting him to draw something every day. He attended the Art Institute of Chicago classes in 1887, remaining as a student and then as an instructor until 1893, when he moved to New York to enter the illustration field.
He found immediate success there and worked for most of the top magazines, including The Century, Scribner’s, McClure’s, The Harper’s publications, Puck, Judge, Collier’s and the Curtis magazines in Philadelphia. He also illustrated many books. In 1907 he became a member of the Life staff and was a prolific contributor for many years, often featured with humorous centerfold double-spread pen and inks.
Lowell maintained studios in New York and in New Rochelle, and was a member of the Society of Illustrators, the Players, the Dutch Treat Club, the Cliff Dwellers (of Chicago), and the New Rochelle Art Association.