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1904 New York City - 1965 New York City. Known for: Magazine illustration, street-frontier genre, teaching.
Illustrator Albert Dorne was born in the slums of New Yorks Lower East Side. Despite childhood afflictions with tuberculosis, heart trouble, and poverty, his dream was to become an artist. After... Read full biography
Illustrator Albert Dorne was born in the slums of New Yorks Lower East Side. Despite childhood afflictions with tuberculosis, heart trouble, and poverty, his dream was to become an artist. After finishing the seventh grade, Dornes formal education came to a halt, as he needed to find work to... Read full biography
Illustrator Albert Dorne was born in the slums of New Yorks Lower East Side. Despite childhood afflictions with tuberculosis, heart trouble, and poverty, his dream was to become an artist. After finishing the seventh grade, Dornes formal education came to a halt, as he needed to find work to support his mother, two sisters, and younger brother. At the age of thirteen, he managed four newsstands in New York; at fourteen, he became an office boy with a movie chain; at fifteen he was a salesman... Read full biography
Illustrator Albert Dorne was born in the slums of New Yorks Lower East Side. Despite childhood afflictions with tuberculosis, heart trouble, and poverty, his dream was to become an artist. After finishing the seventh grade, Dornes formal education came to a halt, as he needed to find work to support his mother, two sisters, and younger brother. At the age of thirteen, he managed four newsstands in New York; at fourteen, he became an office boy with a movie chain; at fifteen he was a salesman for another movie chain. At sixteen, Dorne was married and began to worry that the career he had planned in art was slipping away. To get started, he took a job without pay in an artists studio as a general handyman working from nine to five, and... Read full biography
Illustrator Albert Dorne was born in the slums of New Yorks Lower East Side. Despite childhood afflictions with tuberculosis, heart trouble, and poverty, his dream was to become an artist. After finishing the seventh grade, Dornes formal education came to a halt, as he needed to find work to support his mother, two sisters, and younger brother. At the age of thirteen, he managed four newsstands in New York; at fourteen, he became an office boy with a movie chain; at fifteen he was a salesman for another movie chain. At sixteen, Dorne was married and began to worry that the career he had planned in art was slipping away. To get started, he took a job without pay in an artists studio as a general handyman working from nine to five, and simultaneously took another job as a shipping clerk working from midnight to nine in the morning. When Dorne was close to seventeen, he became, for a... Read full biography
