Dean Cornwell (original) (raw)

Dean Cornwell

(1892-1960 )

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.

In 1959, he was inducted into the Society of Illustrator's Hall of Fame. The monograph on Cornwell by Patricia Broder is back in print and well worth purchasing.

Special thanks to Mark Radcliffe for correcting an error on this page.

Study (19??) Cornwell - 001A

The Natchez / Lee Paddlewheel Race (1947) Cornwell - 002
NOTE: published in the same year in a Seagram's ad and in an article on Cornwell in True.

Cosmopolitan, "A Matter of Honor (1942) Cornwell - 003

Woodbury Soap (1924) Cornwell - 004

Woodbury Soap (1924) Cornwell - 005

Woodbury Soap (1925) Cornwell - 006

True Magazine (1953) Cornwell - 007

Goodyear, "Not For Glory Nor Yet For Gold" (1944) Cornwell - 008

Saturday Evening Post, "The Dark Fleece" (1918) Cornwell - 009

Pennsylvania Railroad, "Spirit of 1943!" (1943) Cornwell - 010

The Robe, "The Slave Market" (1942) Cornwell - 011

American Magazine, "Star Of The East" (1940) Cornwell - 012

Wyeth, "The Only Patient The Doctor Says 'No' To" (1944) Cornwell - 013

Ivory Soap (1924) Cornwell - 014

Timken Rollerbearing, "Admiral Nimitz Is Banking On You" (1944) Cornwell - 015

American Weekly, Mission Santa Ynez (1948) Cornwell - 016

Fisher, "Better than a rabbits foot!" (1943) Cornwell - 017

Heart's International, "The Little Missioner Painted by Dean Cornwell"
and, in the same issue, Cornwell drawn by James Montgomery Flagg,
"A Paintere Who Illustrates And An Illustrator Who Paints (1923) Cornwell - 018

Are You Playing Square? (1943) - 019

Iron Gate, "A Connoisseur" (1950) - 020

Cosmopolitan, "The Days of 49" (1926) - 021

Cosmopolitan, "Seven Men Came Back" (1933) - 022

Palmolive (1919) - 023