A magazine cartoonist and illustrator whose clients included Esquire, New Yorker, Collier's, Saturday Evening Post and Judge, Elmer Simms Campbell was born in St. Louis, Missouri, studied in Chicago... Read full biography
A magazine cartoonist and illustrator whose clients included Esquire, New Yorker, Collier's, Saturday Evening Post and Judge, Elmer Simms Campbell was born in St. Louis, Missouri, studied in Chicago at the Art Institute, and in New York at the Art Students League. From 1957 to 1970, he lived in... Read full biography
A magazine cartoonist and illustrator whose clients included Esquire, New Yorker, Collier's, Saturday Evening Post and Judge, Elmer Simms Campbell was born in St. Louis, Missouri, studied in Chicago at the Art Institute, and in New York at the Art Students League. From 1957 to 1970, he lived in Neerach, Switzerland. He was married to Vivian Campbell. His exhibition career began in Minneapolis when he was eighteen, and five years later the Harmon Foundation in New York exhibited his work. For... Read full biography
A magazine cartoonist and illustrator whose clients included Esquire, New Yorker, Collier's, Saturday Evening Post and Judge, Elmer Simms Campbell was born in St. Louis, Missouri, studied in Chicago at the Art Institute, and in New York at the Art Students League. From 1957 to 1970, he lived in Neerach, Switzerland. He was married to Vivian Campbell. His exhibition career began in Minneapolis when he was eighteen, and five years later the Harmon Foundation in New York exhibited his work. For Esquire magazine, where in 1933 he began regular contributions including cover illustration, he created the cartoon character, Esky, "the white-mustached, pop-eyed, bulbous-nosed connoisseur of female beauty". (93) He also did a harem sequence... Read full biography
A magazine cartoonist and illustrator whose clients included Esquire, New Yorker, Collier's, Saturday Evening Post and Judge, Elmer Simms Campbell was born in St. Louis, Missouri, studied in Chicago at the Art Institute, and in New York at the Art Students League. From 1957 to 1970, he lived in Neerach, Switzerland. He was married to Vivian Campbell. His exhibition career began in Minneapolis when he was eighteen, and five years later the Harmon Foundation in New York exhibited his work. For Esquire magazine, where in 1933 he began regular contributions including cover illustration, he created the cartoon character, Esky, "the white-mustached, pop-eyed, bulbous-nosed connoisseur of female beauty". (93) He also did a harem sequence featuring richly colored odalesques. In addition, he was an illustrato... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (8)
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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
The Art Students League of New York: A History (Students)
1999
Steiner, Raymond J
187 pages
St. James Guide to Black Artists: Published in Association with Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
1997
Riggs, Thomas (Editor); Howard Dobson (Preface)
625 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index