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Carl Oscar August Erickson

Carl Oscar August Erickson (1891 - 1958) was active/lived in New York, Illinois / France.  Carl Erickson is known for Magazine fashion illustration, society portrait painting.

Carl Erickson

American illustrator Carl Oscar August Erickson was born in Joliet, Illinois 1891 to Swedish immigrant parents. He studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. Although limited to only two years of schooling, his artistic talent attracted the likes of Marshall Field, Lord & Thomas and other well known advertisement accounts in Chicago. In 1914 Eric, as he became known, made his way to New York to continue his advertising illustrations.

In 1916 Eric made his debut in Vogue magazine and by 1925 he was a regular artist on the magazine. He married Lee Creelman, a successful staff illustrator at Vogue, with whom he had one daughter, Charlotte. Eric dominated the field of fashion illustration for over thirty five years, creating fashion illustrations and drawing society portraits.

He regularly crossed the Atlantic to draw the fashionable and the rich (he was found sketching at the Venice Lido and in the nightclubs of Montmartre). Eric also worked for t   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3110 characters.]  Artist bio

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