An illustrator and member of the Society of Illustrators, Clark Agnew paid his way through Chicago Art Institute by playing clarinet in Dixieland and Chicago-style bands. When he heard a 12-year-old... Read full biography
An illustrator and member of the Society of Illustrators, Clark Agnew paid his way through Chicago Art Institute by playing clarinet in Dixieland and Chicago-style bands. When he heard a 12-year-old Benny Goodman outplay him, he opted to concentrate on art. Moving to New York, he gained assignments... Read full biography
An illustrator and member of the Society of Illustrators, Clark Agnew paid his way through Chicago Art Institute by playing clarinet in Dixieland and Chicago-style bands. When he heard a 12-year-old Benny Goodman outplay him, he opted to concentrate on art. Moving to New York, he gained assignments with Pictorial Review, American Magazine, Saturday Evening Post, and Collier's. Ad work products included Tydol/Veedol Gasoline (a WW2 billboard for this company won an Outoor Advertising award),... Read full biography
An illustrator and member of the Society of Illustrators, Clark Agnew paid his way through Chicago Art Institute by playing clarinet in Dixieland and Chicago-style bands. When he heard a 12-year-old Benny Goodman outplay him, he opted to concentrate on art. Moving to New York, he gained assignments with Pictorial Review, American Magazine, Saturday Evening Post, and Collier's. Ad work products included Tydol/Veedol Gasoline (a WW2 billboard for this company won an Outoor Advertising award), Roma Wines, Ruppert Beer and Old Gold cigarettes. For the last, he originated the dancing Old Gold packs for TV as he moved from print assignments to the new medium of television. He co-authored, with Neil O'Brien, Television Advertising, 1958. Clark... Read full biography
An illustrator and member of the Society of Illustrators, Clark Agnew paid his way through Chicago Art Institute by playing clarinet in Dixieland and Chicago-style bands. When he heard a 12-year-old Benny Goodman outplay him, he opted to concentrate on art. Moving to New York, he gained assignments with Pictorial Review, American Magazine, Saturday Evening Post, and Collier's. Ad work products included Tydol/Veedol Gasoline (a WW2 billboard for this company won an Outoor Advertising award), Roma Wines, Ruppert Beer and Old Gold cigarettes. For the last, he originated the dancing Old Gold packs for TV as he moved from print assignments to the new medium of television. He co-authored, with Neil O'Brien, Television Advertising, 1958. Clark Agnew sometimes signed his works Ian Mansfield. Submitted by Bruce Agnew, son of Clark Agnew.... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (6)
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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
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
Index to Artistic Biography (Three Volumes)
1973
Havlice, Patricia Pate
2,315 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index