About Henry Raleigh

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    Henry Patrick Raleigh
    The masterful story illustrator of the "Golden Age of American Illustration"

    Notes of interest:

    For almost thirty years, most issue of the Saturday Evening Post featured the drawings of Henry Raleigh. In all he was called upon to illustrate over five hundred Post stories for such revered authors as Stephen Vincent Benet, William Faulkner, Sinclair Lewis, and Somerset Maugham.

    Raleigh was considered the High Society Illustrator of the "Gatsby Era". He was the favorite artist of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Agatha Christie who chose Raleigh to illustrate stories.

    • Henry Patrick Raleigh was born in Portland, Oregon in 1880.

    • At 12 years old he left school to help support his family ...

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