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Maurice Lincoln Bower

Maurice Lincoln Bower (1889 - 1980) was active/lived in Ohio, Pennsylvania / France.  Maurice Bower is known for Illustration-sports, portrait.

Maurice L. Bower (1889-1980)
 
Maurice Lincoln Bower was born in Ohio in 1889 , and showed an ability to draw at an early age.  His family moved to Philadelphia where Bower attended High School and spent a year at Penn State. Upon learning of classes being taught by Howard Pyle alumnus Walter Everett, he switched to the School of Industrial Art in Philadelphia. While still a student he began to be published in St. Nicholas magazine.  This was followed by four years working for the Hearst Syndicate. Later he became a medical illustrator in the U.S. Army during WWI.
 
Bower had always wanted to live and work in Paris, and when offered the opportunity by the McCall Corporation in 1926, he accepted at once.  For the next five years he spent his summers in Paris and the remainder of the year in Philadelphia.  The stock market crash of 1929 ended this arrangement.

He continued to work for most of the major magazines, and painted at leas   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1676 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Maurice Lincoln Bower

   Publications  Book References:  12
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12 Book References for Maurice Lincoln Bower
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2001 Reed, Walt The Illustrator in America, 1860-2000 The Society of Illustrators 452 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1995 Cohn, Jan Covers of the Saturday Evening Post Seventy Years of Outstanding Illustration 298 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)
538 No
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1986 Larson, Judy L American Illustration 1890-1925 Romance, Adventure and Suspense 159 Yes
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1984 Reed, Walt and Roger The Illustrator in America, 1880-1980: A Century of Illustration 355 Yes
1982 Opitz, Glenn Dictionary of American Artists 372 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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