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1906 St. Louis, Missouri - 1971 White Plains, New York. Known for: Magazine cartoons, children's book illustrations.
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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Keywords (28)
Art Method
- •Children's Book, Juvenile Literature Illustration
- •Easel Painting
- •Illustration, Illustrator
Art Media
Art Style
- •Cartoon Drawing, Cartoon Figures
- •Realist, Representational, Naturalist Style
Art Subject
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Humor, Whimsy
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
Art Association
- •Society of Illustrators-
Art School
- •Art Students League of New York, Student
- •National Academy of Design School, New York, Student
- •School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
- •Schomburg Collection
Added Description
- •Cartoon Specialty
- •COLLIER'S Magazine Illustrator and/or Photographer
- •Illustration Specialty
- •THE NEW YORKER Magazine Illustration, Cartoon or Photography
Ethnicity of Artist
- •Black, African-American and/or Caribbean
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Society of Illustrators
Exhibition of Museum
- •Harmon Foundation, Harlem
Exhibition of Special Group
- •American Negro Exposition, Chicago 1940