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Dean Cornwell

Dean Cornwell 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. 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". 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 and worked for the Chicago Tribune. Cornwell's paintings were in Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar, Redbook, and Good Housekeeping magazines. He painted murals for the Los Angeles Public Library, the Lincoln Memorial Shrine in Redlands, California etc. 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.

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Date and place of birt:5 march 1892, Louisville, USA
Date and place of death:4 december 1960, New York City, USA
Nationality:USA
Period of activity: XX century
Specialization:Animalist, Artist, Cartoonist, Genre painter, Illustrator, Painter, Portraitist
Genre:Animalistic, Genre art, Portrait
Art style:Monumentalism, Realism
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