Mid century illustration

SMU alum Fred Caropresi excelled in both fine art and commercial illustration.

They say all good things must come to an end, and so my year or blogging draws to a close. I’m making this my last post for 2012 and singing off for a well earned rest until the new year. Ple…

Aurelius Battaglia was an American illustrator, muralist, writer, and director. It looks like he's sporting a very early pair of Mickey M ears in this photograph, well after all, he's not alone in liking that Disney mouse lol ! Born in Washington, D.C., in 1910 the son of Giuseppe and Concetta Battaglia, who had emigrated from Cefalù, Italy. Aurelius went on to attend the Corcoran…

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Art Seiden was a truly astounding artist who (again) very little information is available on the internet. He was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1918. He received a BA at Queens College and studied for ei…

Born Margaret Thomas Keefe, and called Peg by her family (which is Gaelic for Thomas), Tammis Keefe is one of the great names of hankie and textile design collecting. She was born in 1913, and in t…

Illustration from "A Spy Among Us", fiction feature from Kayak magazine, March April 2008. This is a slightly earlier version of this illo ( the final is blue, with no paper texture ) , but I like how it turned out so I thought I'd share it. I did the colour separations by hand on paper to try and achieve the 2 colour look of mid to late 1950s kid's magazines that were printed on newsprint ( Humpty Dumpty, Children's Digest, etc. ) . One of four illustrations for this story.

Roger Duvoisin (1900 – 1980) - Swiss-born American writer and illustrator. illustration, drawing, art, design, modern, mid-century, retro, vintage, children, picture, book, house, tree, yellow