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Born 1947 Newtown, Pennsylvania. Known for: Mod face-artifact-word, collage.
An illustrator in the 1970s for publications including Atlantic Monthly, Playboy, Time and The New York Times, Alan Magee, now a painter and printmaker, was born in 1947 in Newtown, Pennsylvania. He... Read full biography
An illustrator in the 1970s for publications including Atlantic Monthly, Playboy, Time and The New York Times, Alan Magee, now a painter and printmaker, was born in 1947 in Newtown, Pennsylvania. He also illustrated covers for books by Bernard Malamud, Agatha Christie, Yukio Mishima and Graham... Read full biography
An illustrator in the 1970s for publications including Atlantic Monthly, Playboy, Time and The New York Times, Alan Magee, now a painter and printmaker, was born in 1947 in Newtown, Pennsylvania. He also illustrated covers for books by Bernard Malamud, Agatha Christie, Yukio Mishima and Graham Greene. Magee studied at Bucks County Community College, the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, and the Philadelphia College of Art. He lives and works in Maine. Early in his career as a painter of... Read full biography
An illustrator in the 1970s for publications including Atlantic Monthly, Playboy, Time and The New York Times, Alan Magee, now a painter and printmaker, was born in 1947 in Newtown, Pennsylvania. He also illustrated covers for books by Bernard Malamud, Agatha Christie, Yukio Mishima and Graham Greene. Magee studied at Bucks County Community College, the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, and the Philadelphia College of Art. He lives and works in Maine. Early in his career as a painter of realistic images, Magee rebelled against the prevalent abstraction to focus on realistic style and academic composition. For subject matter, he favored stones found on New England beaches. In the late 1980s, influenced by the technique and social... Read full biography
An illustrator in the 1970s for publications including Atlantic Monthly, Playboy, Time and The New York Times, Alan Magee, now a painter and printmaker, was born in 1947 in Newtown, Pennsylvania. He also illustrated covers for books by Bernard Malamud, Agatha Christie, Yukio Mishima and Graham Greene. Magee studied at Bucks County Community College, the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, and the Philadelphia College of Art. He lives and works in Maine. Early in his career as a painter of realistic images, Magee rebelled against the prevalent abstraction to focus on realistic style and academic composition. For subject matter, he favored stones found on New England beaches. In the late 1980s, influenced by the technique and social commentary of Hannah Hoch's 1920 photo-montages, he began producing collaged mono-prints with a... Read full biography
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An illustrator in the 1970s for publications including Atlantic Monthly, Playboy, Time and The New York Times, Alan Magee, now a painter and printmaker, was born in 1947 in Newtown, Pennsylvania. He also illustrated covers for books by Bernard Malamud, Agatha Christie, Yukio Mishima and Graham Greene. Magee studied at Bucks County Community College, the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, and the Philadelphia College of Art. He lives and works in Maine.
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