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Percy Crosby

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Percy L. Crosby (1891 - 1964) was active/lived in Virginia, New York.  Percy Crosby is known for Cartoonist, landscape.

Percy Crosby was a creator of oil paintings, watercolors, and sculpture, as well as poems, fiction, and nonfiction. He was an expert in recording the flow of motion in his ink drawings and watercolors. Crosby made his mark with his cartoon Skippy, about a mischievous, yet philosophical kid, loosely drawn in a sketchy, effortless manner. At the peak of its popularity the strip ran on the front page of the New York American.

Crosby was born in Brooklyn and grew up in Richmond Hill, Long Island. He dropped out of high school to work as an office boy in the art department of the popular Delineator magazine, sold an idea to Life when he was 16 years old, worked as a newspaper sketch artist at 19. He then attended Pratt Institute and the Art Students League, and began drawing strips for the New York World. After doing such titles as Toddles and Beany and the Gang, he settled in with the McClure Syndicate in 1915 with The Clancy Kids. In 1917, he went overseas to serve in World War I;   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3046 characters.]  Artist bio

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17 Book References for Percy Crosby
Year Author Title Pages Color
2009 Katlan, Alexander W. Salmagundi Club Painting Exhibition Records 1940-1951 and Water Color Exhibition Records 1900-1951 623 No
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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
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Steiner, Raymond J The Art Students League of New York: A History (Students) 187 No
1996 Horn, Maurice (editor) 100 Years of American Newspaper Comics An Illustrated Encyclopedia 414 Yes
1991 Wiesinger, Veronique; Clair Vaudevire; Pierre Rosenberg (Preface) American Drawings in the French National Collection, 1760-1945
(Exhibition catalog)		 110 Yes
1990 Goulart, Ron (Editor) The Encyclopedia of American Comics From 1897 to the Present 408 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1982 Johnson, Fridolf Treasury of American Pen-and-Ink Illustration 1881 to 1938 149 No
1982 Opitz, Glenn Dictionary of American Artists 372 No
1981 Press, Charles The Political Cartoon 389 No
1959 Becker, Stephen Comic Art in America 387 No
1938 Murrell, William History of American Graphic Humor 1865-1938 267 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1932 Los Angeles Olympic Games Olympic Competition and Exhibitio of Art, Catalogue of the Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 86 No
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