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Period: 1920s
Artist: Dean Cornwell
The Exquisite Perdita, Cosmopolitan Interior Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
LITERATURE:
C.D.B. Bryan, Mort Walker and the Art of Illustration, Architectural Digest, July 1988, p. 64, illustrated.
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Spanish Tavern
Located in Miami, FL
There is no one alive that can paint and draw like Dean Cornwell. How can that be? They do not train artist the way they did. He was Normal Rockwell's ...
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American Impressionist 1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Great Things of Life-Travel, General Electric Advertisement, 1921
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Sight Size 36.00" x 34.00; Framed 43.75" x 41.75"
"The Great Things of Life—Travel, Edison Mazda Lamps/General Electric advertisement"
Signed and dated lower left: Dean / Cornwell / 21
Dean Cornwell's advertisements for companies like Coca-Cola, Palmolive Soap, and Philadelphia Blended Whiskey are as chock full of atmosphere and narrative drama as his magazine story illustrations. The present work graced one of eleven advertisements in ""The Great Things of Life"" series, commissioned by General Electric, which ran in monthly 1921 editions of The Saturday Evening Post. Each of these ads, designed by a different artist - among them, Arthur I. Keller, Elizabeth Shippen Green, Clarence F. Underwood, and Sarah Stillwell Weber -- suggested that the warmth of the Edison Mazda Lamp, or incandescent light bulb, went hand in hand with middle-class virtues and opportunities, including ""Reverence,"" ""Contentment,"" ""Gratitude,"" and ""Chums."" For ""Travel,"" Cornwell imaged a honeymooning couple disembarking from a car, about to enter a brightly illuminated inn: ""The Honeymoon Trail is a trail of Light -- Soft lights, orange blossoms, and solemn vows - A handful of confetti, laughing goodbyes and a porch--light smiling its happy farewell -- Bright headlights throwing their radiance over the road; and the lights of welcome in an old-fashioned inn -- So another couple sets forth on the honeymoon trail -- a trail that lingers in memory as long as life lasts, indelibly etched by the magic of light. We speak of life as a journey; have you ever stopped to think how much Edison Mazda Lamps contribute to the pleasure of the journey?"" (General Electric advertisement, The Saturday Evening Post, 1921). The present work is accompanied by three copies of the advertisement as featured in The Saturday Evening Post. "
Dean Cornwell, born in 1862, was an American artist who was best known as a muralist and for his famous illustrations in national magazines including Harper's Bazaar, Redbook, and Cosmopolitan. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky and as a child observed his civil engineer father do industrial drawings, which led to his interest in art. Cornwell studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and built his career as a cartoonist for the Lousiville Herald and the Chicago Tribune. Cornwell illustrated the works of some of the most famous names in the literary world, including Edna Ferber, Ernest Hemingway, Pearl S. Buck, and Somerset Maugham. He also created murals for the 1939 World's Fair, Bethlehem Steel, and the General Motors Building in New York City. Cornwell's spectacular murals grace buildings...
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1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
(Untitled)
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Exquisite Perdita
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Right
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Spanish Tavern
Located in Miami, FL
There is no one alive that can paint and draw like Dean Cornwell. How can that be? They do not train artist the way they did. Dean Cornwell in his day was as famous as Normal Rockwell...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Stoic and Soulfully Strong Women - All Women Composition Euphorbia -
Located in Miami, FL
One of Cornwell's hallmarks is that he paints stoically soulful faces that express the subject's trials and hardships. In this only-woman composition, he depicts a scene of two women who are strong, unafraid, and self-confident and can weather the storm despite the challenges. In this regard, it is similar to "A Strange Sound Drifted Down to Kit from the Top of the Range—A Man’s Voice, Singing" by Cornwell, which sold at Christie's USD $163,800 on 18 Apr 2024.
Caption: "Are you making little things?" questioned Lucy. 'No ,' said Marge. 'If this one happens to live, there will be many long years ahead of us for that."
Morris Weiss collection...
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Post-Impressionist 1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
At the Precinct, Story Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1929
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Left
Dimensions: 30.00" x 19.00"
Study for "Find the Woman" (Cosmopolitan Magazine)
Artist biographical not...
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1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Kindred of the Dust, Frontier Town Cosmopolitan Magazine
Located in Miami, FL
More than 20 beautifully rendered post-impressionist portraits in character, define Dean Cornwell as one of America's great artists. In his time, he was a famous as Norman Rockwell and was Norman Rockwell's favorite illustrator. "One thing puzzled Dirty Dan extremely. That was the perfectly frank, friendly manner in which his employer and this outcast woman greeted each other, the earnestness with which they conversed, and the effect of the woman's low-spoken words upon the color of Hector McKaye's face."
Morris Weiss collection...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Never the Twain Shall Meet, Cosmopolitan Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1923
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 35.50" x 30.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Never the Twain Shall Meet, Cosmopolitan illustration, 1923
This illustration appeared in Peter B. Kyne's story, Never the Twain Shall Meet.
"'Ah!' said Tamea. 'You do not believe, then, that I am the Queen of Riva?' 'No,' retorted the health officer, 'I do not. You're the Queen of Hearts.''"
It was also reproduced on page 76 of Dean Cornwell: Dean of Illustrators by Patricia Janis Broder, Collector's Press, 2000.
Exhibited:
Masters of the Golden Age: Harvey Dunn and His Students
South Dakota...
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1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Callers, Cosmopolitan Magazine Interior Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1925
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 25.5" x 16.5"
Signature: Initialed, Dated and Inscribed Lower Left: DC / 1925 / To Sid Hydemon / 19
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1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Art Deco Painting Romantic Couple on Rocks
Located in Miami, FL
Fact: There is no one alive today who can paint and draw as good as Dean Cornwell. Why? It takes a lifetime of training, work and commitment to be a great academic artist. Unfortunat...
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Art Deco 1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Find the Woman
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1920
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 24.00" x 30.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
1920 Cosmopolitan - page 63 of cornwell book
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...
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1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Land Where Men Forget the Past, The Coconut Pearl
Located in Missouri, MO
Original Oil on Canvas Illustration for Hearst/Cosmopolitan Aug. 1925
"Land Where Men Forget the Past, The Coconut Pearl"
Caption: " 'Anyone who's knocked ...
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American Modern 1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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