Despite this, the artist himself remains something of a mystery. During his long career as an illustrator he did not attain the “household name” status of some other artists, such as Maxfield Parrish or Norman Rockwell. There are no books devoted to his work, and few mentions of him appear in newspapers or magazines of his time. Even so, his illustrations graced the covers and pages of such national magazines as the Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, Liberty, Country Gentleman, Outdoor Life, Capper’s Farmer, Farm and Home, Country Life, and The Elks. He also produced work for calendar companies, as well as for advertising clients such as Pratt & Lambert, Columbia Manilla Rope, Burger Brewing Company, Stewart Distilling Company, International Harvester, Fisk Tires, and more.
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ROBERT OSONITSCH: The Illustrator's Photographer
A few of the major illustrators during the time of Steve Holland’s reign as king of the paperback covers shot their own reference photos.
THE ART OF ZOË MOZERT
Zoë Mozert was born Alice Adelaide Moser in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on April 27, 1907. Her father was Fred William Moser, a mechanical engineer of German ancestry, and her mother was Jessie Mable Hatfield of Ohio.
ART FITZPATRICK & VAN KAUFMAN
AF/VK. These four initials were my only clue as to the source of the fantastic Pontiac ad illustrations I found in my dad’s old National Geographic magazines.
STEVE HOLLAND: The World's Greatest Illustration Art Model
Thomas Steven Holland was born January 8, 1925, in Seattle Washington, and died on May 10, 1997, at age 72 in Humboldt County, California following a brief illness. He was married three times and had two children from his first marriage, a son named Claude and a daughter, Nicole.
THE PULP ART OF PETER DRIBEN
Pulp magazines covered numerous genres, including fantasy, crime, Westerns, science-fiction, horror, action, and war. Cover art designs ran the gamut, but often many would feature half-naked young women—there was even a genre devoted exclusively to the subject—the girlie pulps.
MORTON ROBERTS: A Brief Life at Yale
Morton Roberts was one of the rising stars in the late 50's and early 60's.
THE ART OF JOE BOWLER
American painter and illustrator Joe Bowler and his creations
THE ART OF ROGER KASTEL
An American artist, most famous for creating the poster for the film Jaws
It's the shark that gets them.
Movies that made us to watch again and again
THE ART OF NEYSA MCMEIN
Margary Edna McMein was born in Quincy, Illinois on January 25, 1888. (Various sources list her date of birth as 1890, and a few as 1889—once McMein moved to New York she decided to trim a few years from her age.)
