Joseph Francis Kernan, a magazine illustrator for forty years during the golden age of that art and saddled with the nickname "the poor man's Norman Rockwell" -- was born in 1878 in Brookline,... Read full biography
Joseph Francis Kernan, a magazine illustrator for forty years during the golden age of that art and saddled with the nickname "the poor man's Norman Rockwell" -- was born in 1878 in Brookline, Massachusetts. He paid for his studies in Boston at the Eric Pape School of Art, where he later taught for... Read full biography
Joseph Francis Kernan, a magazine illustrator for forty years during the golden age of that art and saddled with the nickname "the poor man's Norman Rockwell" -- was born in 1878 in Brookline, Massachusetts. He paid for his studies in Boston at the Eric Pape School of Art, where he later taught for two years, by playing professional baseball. True to his own sporting interests, Kernan favored outdoor scenes of sports, fishing, hunting and dogs. One of his paintings of an English Setter is in... Read full biography
Joseph Francis Kernan, a magazine illustrator for forty years during the golden age of that art and saddled with the nickname "the poor man's Norman Rockwell" -- was born in 1878 in Brookline, Massachusetts. He paid for his studies in Boston at the Eric Pape School of Art, where he later taught for two years, by playing professional baseball. True to his own sporting interests, Kernan favored outdoor scenes of sports, fishing, hunting and dogs. One of his paintings of an English Setter is in the art collection of the DeCoverly Kennels, outside Scranton, Pennsylvania, which specializes in that breed of dog. Kernan's paintings appeared on the covers of magazines including Collier's, Liberty, The Saturday Evening Post, The Country Gentleman,... Read full biography
Joseph Francis Kernan, a magazine illustrator for forty years during the golden age of that art and saddled with the nickname "the poor man's Norman Rockwell" -- was born in 1878 in Brookline, Massachusetts. He paid for his studies in Boston at the Eric Pape School of Art, where he later taught for two years, by playing professional baseball. True to his own sporting interests, Kernan favored outdoor scenes of sports, fishing, hunting and dogs. One of his paintings of an English Setter is in the art collection of the DeCoverly Kennels, outside Scranton, Pennsylvania, which specializes in that breed of dog. Kernan's paintings appeared on the covers of magazines including Collier's, Liberty, The Saturday Evening Post, The Country Gentleman, Capper's Farmer, The Elks, Outdoor Life, and the Associated Sunday Magazines. His work was also commissioned for calendars and advertise... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (12)
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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
Master Pieces The Art History of Jigsaw Puzzles
1998
McCann, Chris (Author); Louis Darling (Illustrator)
223 pages (color)
Covers of the Saturday Evening Post Seventy Years of Outstanding Illustration
1995
Cohn, Jan
298 pages (color)
Rivals of Rockwell (Liberty Magazine illustrators)
1992
Roettiger, Dorye
120 pages (color)
American Illustrator Art Official Price Guide
1991
Gilbert Anne
1,991 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1940-1941, Volume III Contemporary American Artists
1940
Ball, Charlotte (editor)
790 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index