About Mahlon Blaine

  • Biography

    Mahlon Blaine was born in California in 1894. He became part of a coming century of great popularity and diverse talent in the field of illustration that included Dean Cornwell, Robert Lawson, Andrew Loomis, George Petty, Milt Gross and Gustaf Tenggren.

    Blaine's early life is cloaked in misdirection and deliberate misinformation. The first published biographical article about him in 1929 (or was it 1927?) is total fabrication. The gullible interviewer, Anice Peg Cooper, swallowed the blarney whole and reported it as fact. Likewise this 1927 fabrication from the rear of the dust jacket of Hugh Clifford's "The Further Side of Silence":

    "Mahlon Blaine has illustrated these Malayan dramas with the magic of his own experience. A Ne...

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