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1894 New York City - 1956 New York City. Known for: Magazine cover illustration.
Edgar Franklin Wittmack (1894 - 1956). Edgar Franklin Wittmack was an illustrator and cover artist for many of the most popular magazines of the 1920s and 1930s. His covers, just as the artwork of... Read full biography
Edgar Franklin Wittmack (1894 - 1956). Edgar Franklin Wittmack was an illustrator and cover artist for many of the most popular magazines of the 1920s and 1930s. His covers, just as the artwork of his contemporary, Norman Rockwell, were usually created as oil paintings. Both cover artists... Read full biography
Edgar Franklin Wittmack (1894 - 1956). Edgar Franklin Wittmack was an illustrator and cover artist for many of the most popular magazines of the 1920s and 1930s. His covers, just as the artwork of his contemporary, Norman Rockwell, were usually created as oil paintings. Both cover artists specialized in fiction-oriented magazines. Rockwell, drawing on the viewer's imagination, created humorous or unique situations of small town life, mainly thru his covers for the Saturday Evening Post.... Read full biography
Edgar Franklin Wittmack (1894 - 1956). Edgar Franklin Wittmack was an illustrator and cover artist for many of the most popular magazines of the 1920s and 1930s. His covers, just as the artwork of his contemporary, Norman Rockwell, were usually created as oil paintings. Both cover artists specialized in fiction-oriented magazines. Rockwell, drawing on the viewer's imagination, created humorous or unique situations of small town life, mainly thru his covers for the Saturday Evening Post. Wittmack, known for creating numerous covers for such "slick" magazines as the Saturday Evening Post, American Boy, Outdoor Life, Liberty etc., generally displayed a "poster style" cover of men of all ages at their work or sport. Wittmack is also well known... Read full biography
Edgar Franklin Wittmack (1894 - 1956). Edgar Franklin Wittmack was an illustrator and cover artist for many of the most popular magazines of the 1920s and 1930s. His covers, just as the artwork of his contemporary, Norman Rockwell, were usually created as oil paintings. Both cover artists specialized in fiction-oriented magazines. Rockwell, drawing on the viewer's imagination, created humorous or unique situations of small town life, mainly thru his covers for the Saturday Evening Post. Wittmack, known for creating numerous covers for such "slick" magazines as the Saturday Evening Post, American Boy, Outdoor Life, Liberty etc., generally displayed a "poster style" cover of men of all ages at their work or sport. Wittmack is also well known for his Popular Science artwork where, during the heigh... Read full biography
Edgar Franklin Wittmack - Artist Info
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Keywords (21)
Art Method
- •Comic Book, Comic Strip Artist, Comic Figures
- •Easel Painting
- •Illustration, Illustrator
Art Media
- •Oil Paint
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Female Face and Figure
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
- •Interior Scenes
Art Association
- •Salmagundi Club, New York City
- •Society of Illustrators-
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
Added Description
- •Book and/or Magazine Cover Artist
- •Figure Specialty
- •Genre Specialty
- •Illustration Specialty
- •Pulp Fiction Illustrator
- •SATURDAY EVENING POST Illustrator and/or Photographer
Exhibition of Art Association
- •National Academy of Design, New York
- •Society of Illustrators