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Lawrence WilburThe Artist, This Week Magazine Cover, 19371937
1937
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Medium: Oil on Canvas
Sight Size 36.00" x 28.25;" Framed 42.50" x 34.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
This Week magazine cover, May 1937
An early 20th-century illustrator working in New York City, Lawrence L Wilbur should not be confused with Lawrence Nelson Wilbur.
Lawrence Lazear Wilbur was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska. (His grandfather, Reuben H. Wilbur, was a major in the Union army during the Civil War and later mayor of Omaha.) After high school, Lawrence hitchhiked to New York City to study art, at the Art Students League and over the next decade established himself as a successful commercial artist. He created lithographs, large images for billboards, and more than one cover for the Saturday Evening Post. In June, 1917, he married Helen Ruth Purdy, scion of a Baltimore newspaper family. In August, 1918, he joined the army and served actively in World War I. On his return, the couple moved to a Revolutionary War period stone house in North Caldwell, N.J., where they were to live for over fifty years. The property included a stone outbuilding that became his portrait studio. They had two sons, Richard Purdy Wilbur (1921-2017), who became a celebrated Pulitzer Prize winning poet, former U.S. Poet Laureate, as well as a translator; and Lawrence L. Wilbur, Jr. (1924-2008). In his portrait period, from the late 1930's into the 70's, Wilbur painted dozens of portraits, many of bankers, businessmen, and socialites, and local luminaries, as well as friends and relatives. But he always viewed painting as an activity to love in itself, and pursued his bliss painting numerous landscapes, seascapes, and an occasional still life. He was a lifelong student of painting, and particularly admired Eakins and Velázquez. He was handy around the house and an excellent bridge, tennis, piano, and accordion player. He was a gentle soul, soft-spoken, but also wryly humorous and could tell a joke with a hilarious understatement.
Biography courtesy of the artist's grandson, Christopher Wilbur
- Creator:Lawrence Wilbur (20th Century, American)
- Creation Year:1937
- Dimensions:Height: 36 in (91.44 cm)Width: 28.25 in (71.76 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Fort Washington, PA
- Reference Number:Seller: 39131stDibs: LU38436096692
Lawrence Wilbur
Painter and printmaker Lawrence Nelson Wilbur was born in Whitman, Massachusetts. He moved to Boston where he began his training as a photoengraver. He moved to Los Angeles in 1921, where he worked in the engraving department of the Los Angeles Times. Relocating to New York in 1925, Wilbur was employed as a finisher by several of New York's finest engraving shops and by several of the leading magazines of the era. Wilbur enrolled at the Grand Central Art School, where he studied under N. C. Wyeth and Harvey Dunn.a number of Lawrence Nelson Wilbur traveled to Boston and Los Angeles before settling in New York. In 1925, he enrolled in the Grand Central Art School where he studied under Harvey Dunn, N.C. Wyeth, and Pruett Carter. As a photo-engraving finisher, he worked for the finest engraving shops in New York, and a number of major magazine publishers headquartered there. The combination of his graphic arts skills and his serious pursuit of training in the fine arts formed the basis for his career as a talented draftsman, printmaker, and painter. His works have been collected by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the National Gallery of Art and the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; and many other institutions. Wilbur received numerous awards for his art, including the Audubon Artist's medal of honor for a self-portrait in oil in 1957. He was a member of the Salmagundi Club of New York, the Painters and Sculptors Society of New Jersey, and the Society of America Graphic Artists. He died in New York City.
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