Albert Hampson was born in West Philadelphia in 1910. He studied illustration under Thorton Oakley, an illustrator and student of Howard Pyle, at the Pennsylvania Museum's School of Industrial Art.... Read full biography
Albert Hampson was born in West Philadelphia in 1910. He studied illustration under Thorton Oakley, an illustrator and student of Howard Pyle, at the Pennsylvania Museum's School of Industrial Art. Hampson also studied in Provincetown under the direction of Charles W. Hawthorne and Henry Hensche.... Read full biography
Albert Hampson was born in West Philadelphia in 1910. He studied illustration under Thorton Oakley, an illustrator and student of Howard Pyle, at the Pennsylvania Museum's School of Industrial Art. Hampson also studied in Provincetown under the direction of Charles W. Hawthorne and Henry Hensche. Hampson is best known for his cover illustrations for The Saturday Evening Post, and Look magazine, and other popular publications of the time. Hampson's style was much like Norman Rockwell's in that... Read full biography
Albert Hampson was born in West Philadelphia in 1910. He studied illustration under Thorton Oakley, an illustrator and student of Howard Pyle, at the Pennsylvania Museum's School of Industrial Art. Hampson also studied in Provincetown under the direction of Charles W. Hawthorne and Henry Hensche. Hampson is best known for his cover illustrations for The Saturday Evening Post, and Look magazine, and other popular publications of the time. Hampson's style was much like Norman Rockwell's in that he portrayed the common man in semi-humorous, everyday situations. He completed over a dozen cover illustrations for The Saturday Evening Post; the first one was conceived in 1934. An extremely prolific commercial artist, Hampson executed a vast... Read full biography
Albert Hampson was born in West Philadelphia in 1910. He studied illustration under Thorton Oakley, an illustrator and student of Howard Pyle, at the Pennsylvania Museum's School of Industrial Art. Hampson also studied in Provincetown under the direction of Charles W. Hawthorne and Henry Hensche. Hampson is best known for his cover illustrations for The Saturday Evening Post, and Look magazine, and other popular publications of the time. Hampson's style was much like Norman Rockwell's in that he portrayed the common man in semi-humorous, everyday situations. He completed over a dozen cover illustrations for The Saturday Evening Post; the first one was conceived in 1934. An extremely prolific commercial artist, Hampson executed a vast amount of design work for corporations such as Johnson & Johnson, Colgate, Revlon Internation... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (4)
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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
Covers of the Saturday Evening Post Seventy Years of Outstanding Illustration
1995
Cohn, Jan
298 pages (color)
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index