Illustrator Albert Dorne was born in the slums of New Yorks Lower East Side. Despite childhood afflictions with tuberculosis, heart trouble, and poverty, his dream was to become an artist. After... Read full biography
Illustrator Albert Dorne was born in the slums of New Yorks Lower East Side. Despite childhood afflictions with tuberculosis, heart trouble, and poverty, his dream was to become an artist. After finishing the seventh grade, Dornes formal education came to a halt, as he needed to find work to... Read full biography
Illustrator Albert Dorne was born in the slums of New Yorks Lower East Side. Despite childhood afflictions with tuberculosis, heart trouble, and poverty, his dream was to become an artist. After finishing the seventh grade, Dornes formal education came to a halt, as he needed to find work to support his mother, two sisters, and younger brother. At the age of thirteen, he managed four newsstands in New York; at fourteen, he became an office boy with a movie chain; at fifteen he was a salesman... Read full biography
Illustrator Albert Dorne was born in the slums of New Yorks Lower East Side. Despite childhood afflictions with tuberculosis, heart trouble, and poverty, his dream was to become an artist. After finishing the seventh grade, Dornes formal education came to a halt, as he needed to find work to support his mother, two sisters, and younger brother. At the age of thirteen, he managed four newsstands in New York; at fourteen, he became an office boy with a movie chain; at fifteen he was a salesman for another movie chain. At sixteen, Dorne was married and began to worry that the career he had planned in art was slipping away. To get started, he took a job without pay in an artists studio as a general handyman working from nine to five, and... Read full biography
Illustrator Albert Dorne was born in the slums of New Yorks Lower East Side. Despite childhood afflictions with tuberculosis, heart trouble, and poverty, his dream was to become an artist. After finishing the seventh grade, Dornes formal education came to a halt, as he needed to find work to support his mother, two sisters, and younger brother. At the age of thirteen, he managed four newsstands in New York; at fourteen, he became an office boy with a movie chain; at fifteen he was a salesman for another movie chain. At sixteen, Dorne was married and began to worry that the career he had planned in art was slipping away. To get started, he took a job without pay in an artists studio as a general handyman working from nine to five, and simultaneously took another job as a shipping clerk working from midnight to nine in the morning. When Dorne was close to seventeen, he became, for a... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (14)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
The Illustrator in America, 1860-2000 The Society of Illustrators
2001
Reed, Walt
452 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Artists in Quotation Dictionary of Creative Thoughts of Painters etc
1989
La Cour, Donna Ward
196 pages
American Western Art
1989
Rockwell Museum
84 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
The Illustrator in America, 1880-1980: A Century of Illustration
1984
Reed, Walt and Roger
355 pages (color)
Posters/World War l & World War ll George C Marshall Research Foundation
1979
Crawford, Anthony R
128 pages
The Illustrator in America 1900-1960s
1966
Reed, Walt
272 pages (color)
Illustrating for the Saturday Evening Post
1951
Halsey, Ashley Jr
160 pages
Forty Illustrators and How They Work
1947
Watson, Ernest W
0 pages (color)
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index