Artist Keywords
Maud Fangel

Maud Tousey Fangel (1881 - 1968) was active/lived in Massachusetts, New York.  Maud Fangel is known for Child portrait painting, magazine illustration.

In the 1930s, '40s, and '50s -- if you saw a sketch or portrait of a child on the cover of Ladies Home Journal or Woman's Home Companion, or inside the magazines' advertising, say, Colgate's Talc Powder, Cream of Wheat, or Squibb's Cod Liver Oil, you were probably seeing the work of Maud Tausey Fangel.  For a good part of the first half of the twentieth century, Ms. Fangel was the children's artist in our country -- her illustrations of ruddy-cheeked, doe-eyed, curly-locked children were everywhere. They set the standard for their day and made Ms. Fangel a kind of celebrity -- the subject of frequent feature articles and a much in demand children's portrait painter, who was commissioned to do pictures of the Dionne Quintuplets and the children of Chiang Kai Shek.

Maud Tausey was born on January 1st, 1881, the daughter of a Professor of Divinity at Tufts College, later Tufts University, in the Boston area. She began   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2939 characters.]  Artist bio

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Keywords and Quick Facts for Maud Fangel


   Keywords 
Art Method
  • Easel Painting
  • Illustration, Illustrator
  • Magazine Illustration
Art MediaArt StyleArt Subject
  • Animals, Mammals
  • Children, Child Figure, Genre, Portrait
  • Figure, Figurative Humans
  • Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
  • Portraits, Portraiture
Art Association
  • Society of Illustrators-
Art School
  • Art Students League of New York, Student
  • Cooper Union Art School, Cooper School of Design, Student
  • School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Student
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
Added Description
  • Commercial Art and Design
  • Cream of Wheat Ad Illustration Artist
  • Illustration Specialty
  • LADIES HOME JOURNAL Illustrator and/or Photographer
Exhibition of Art Association
  • Society of Illustrators

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