River Boat, The New World
By Dean Cornwell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left
20th Century Dean Cornwell Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Dean Cornwell was an American illustrator and muralist born on March 5, 1892, in Louisville. Dean Cornwell was Normam Rockwell's favorite Illustrator. At the peak of his popularity he was nicknamed the ‘Dean of Illustrators’. He was a student of Harvey Dunn and he in turn taught artists and developed talents for a generation. Cornwell's paintings were in Cosmopolitan, Redbook, True, The American Weekly, Life and Good Housekeeping. He has done book arts for The Man of Galilee and others. Cornwell has also taken up advertisement contracts for GM, Eastern, Pennsylvania Railroad, Paul Jones Whiskey, Aunt Jemima, Seagram's Gin, Woodbury Soap, Palmolive, Coke, Goodyear, New York Life and Squibb. Cornwell was an icon of the ‘Golden Age of Illustration’. Cornwell died on December 4, 1960, in New York.
River Boat, The New World
By Dean Cornwell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left
Canvas, Oil
British Schooner Anchored at Naples
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
A classic scene of a large mid-Nineteenth Century schooner at rest in the Mediterranean port painted by the Italian countryman Tomaso De Simone. The complete narrative scene around the schooner's broadside is complemented with a British merchant steam/sail ship, local boats and the colorful sky and headland architecture of the ancient city. The vast serenity and unspoiled life of cruising the Mediterranean Ocean...
Canvas, Oil
Laborers
By Dean Cornwell
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Dean Cornwell began his career as an illustrator in 1914 and worked steadily until his death at sixty-eight. His art appeared regularly in popular magazines and important books writt...
Canvas, Oil