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Edgar Franklin Wittmack

Edgar Franklin Wittmack (1894 - 1956) was active/lived in New York.  Edgar Wittmack is known for Magazine cover illustration.

Edgar Franklin Wittmack  (1894 - 1956)

Edgar Franklin Wittmack was an illustrator and cover artist for many of the most popular magazines of the 1920s and 1930s.  His covers, just as the artwork of his contemporary, Norman Rockwell, were usually created as oil paintings.

Both cover artists specialized in fiction-oriented magazines.  Rockwell, drawing on the viewer's imagination, created humorous or unique situations of small town life, mainly thru his covers for the Saturday Evening Post.   Wittmack, known for creating numerous covers for such "slick" magazines as the Saturday Evening Post, American Boy, Outdoor Life, Liberty etc., generally displayed a "poster style" cover of men of all ages at their work or sport. 

Wittmack is also well known for his Popular Science artwork where, during the height of the great depression, he painted more than 100+ covers, expressing thru his "retro-futuristic"   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4187 characters.]  Artist bio

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