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Dean Cornwell

Dean Cornwell (1892 - 1960) was active/lived in New York, California.  Dean Cornwell is known for Illustration, easel and mural painting, genre, interior scenes.

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Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Dean Cornwell became a premier illustrator and teacher of illustration and also a muralist.

He received his first training from Paul Plaschke at the local YMCA, and by age 18, he was a cartoonist for the Louisville Herald.  In 1911, he moved to Chicago where he worked in the art department for the Chicago Tribune and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago.

In 1914, he received his first major commission, which was for The Red Book Magazine, and in 1915, he moved to New York and enrolled in the Art Students League and then at Harvey Dunn's school of illustration in Leonia, New Jersey.  His illustration work included Redbook and Cosmopolitan and was based on his theory that good illustration had its basis in good painting, so all of his illustrations were initially paintings.  In New York, he was also a protege of Nicolai Fechin, the Russian portraitist who had arrived in New York in 1923, and   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 12151 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

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Artist artworks for sale and wanted

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Research resources

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Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Dean Cornwell available:    Joseph Christian Leyendecker,  Harvey Thomas Dunn,  Norman Mills Price,  James Montgomery Flagg,  McClelland Barclay,  Frank Schoonover,  Mead Schaeffer,  Howard Pyle,  Tom Lovell,  Saul Tepper,  Harold von Schmidt,  Elbert McGran Jackson,  Frank Leyendecker,  Jessie Willcox Smith,  Stevan Dohanos,  Gil (Gilette) Elvgren,  NC Wyeth,  Peter Driben,  Robert McGinnis,  Alberto Vargas,  Howard Chandler Christy,  Haddon Sunny Hubbard Sundblom,  Herbert Morton Stoops,  Anton Otto Fischer