1923
Dean Cornwell was an American illustrator and muralist born on March 5, 1892, in Louisville. Dean Cornwell was Normam Rockwell's favorite Illustrator. At the peak of his popularity he was nicknamed the ‘Dean of Illustrators’. He was a student of Harvey Dunn and he in turn taught artists and developed talents for a generation. Cornwell's paintings were in Cosmopolitan, Redbook, True, The American Weekly, Life and Good Housekeeping. He has done book arts for The Man of Galilee and others. Cornwell has also taken up advertisement contracts for GM, Eastern, Pennsylvania Railroad, Paul Jones Whiskey, Aunt Jemima, Seagram's Gin, Woodbury Soap, Palmolive, Coke, Goodyear, New York Life and Squibb. Cornwell was an icon of the ‘Golden Age of Illustration’. Cornwell died on December 4, 1960, in New York.
Cosmopolitan Story Illustration
By Dean Cornwell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1930 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 40.00" x 30.00" Signature: Initialed and Dated Lower Right of Right Canvas Woman with suitor/explorers wearing pith helmets Pub...
Canvas, Oil
Cosmopolitan Story Illustration
By Dean Cornwell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Woman with suitor/explorers wearing pith helmets Publication Information: Story Illustration for "A Marriage of Concenience" by Comerset Mau...
Canvas, Oil
“What am I supposed to have stolen?” Cosmopolitan illustration
By Dean Cornwell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Story illustration for “Find the Woman” by Arthur Somers Roche for Cosmopolitan, published November 1920, page 24. The full caption reads: “‘What am I supposed to have stolen?’ Cla...
Oil, Board
“I was low enough to ask a favor of you” Cosmopolitan illustration
By Dean Cornwell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Story illustration for “The Enchanted Hill” by Peter B. Kyne for Cosmopolitan, published November 1924, pages 32-33. The full caption reads: “‘I was low enough to ask a favor of y...
Canvas, Oil
"His parting from Leonora was slow, sweet, endless."
By Dean Cornwell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Story illustration for "The Torrent" by Vicente Blasco Ibanez for Hearst's International, published November 1921, page 12. Dean Cornwell’s dramatic nighttime scene depicts a poign...
Oil, Board
Mutiny
By Dean Cornwell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil and Pencil on Board Dimensions: 29.50" x 23.25" Signature: Signed Lower Left
Oil, Board, Color Pencil
Kindred of the Dust, Frontier Town Cosmopolitan Magazine
By Dean Cornwell
Located in Miami, FL
A somewhat similar Cornwell featuring a strong woman at the center of a the composition just sold at Christie's for $164,000. In this work we also see a strong woman at the center of the composition. Here she surrounded by men. More than 20 beautifully rendered post-impressionist portraits in character, define Dean Cornwell as one of America's great artists. In his time, he was a famous as Norman Rockwell and was Norman Rockwell's favorite illustrator. "One thing puzzled Dirty Dan extremely. That was the perfectly frank, friendly manner in which his employer and this outcast woman greeted each other, the earnestness with which they conversed, and the effect of the woman's low-spoken words upon the color of Hector McKaye's face." Morris Weiss collection...
Oil
Stoic and Soulfully Strong Women - All Women Composition Euphorbia -
By Dean Cornwell
Located in Miami, FL
One of Cornwell's hallmarks is that he paints stoically soulful faces that express the subject's trials and hardships. In this only-woman composition, he depicts a scene of two women who are strong, unafraid, and self-confident and can weather the storm despite the challenges. In this regard, it is similar to "A Strange Sound Drifted Down to Kit from the Top of the Range—A Man’s Voice, Singing" by Cornwell, which sold at Christie's USD $163,800 on 18 Apr 2024. Caption: "Are you making little things?" questioned Lucy. 'No ,' said Marge. 'If this one happens to live, there will be many long years ahead of us for that." Morris Weiss collection...
Oil
Spanish Tavern
By Dean Cornwell
Located in Miami, FL
There is no one alive that can paint and draw like Dean Cornwell. How can that be? They do not train artist the way they did. Dean Cornwell in his day was as famous as Normal Rockwell...
Oil
Untitled (Crucifixion on the Battlefield)
By Dean Cornwell
Located in Cliffside Park, NJ
One of the most successful illustrators of the early 20th century Dean Cornwell Untitled (Crucifixion on the Battlefield) initialed DC (center left), oil on canvas, framed canvas: 33...
Oil, Canvas
Forging a Crankshaft: Mid-20th Century American Industrial Realist Painting
By Dean Cornwell
Located in Marco Island, FL
This dynamic image of two men forging a crankshaft was done for the GM Waldorf Exhibition sometime between 1949 to 1961. The General Motors exhibition at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel ...
Gold Leaf
Androscoggin River Falls, study for The Manufacturers National Bank of Lewiston-
By Dean Cornwell
Located in Miami, FL
If there ever were a perfect work in the canon of art history, this masterpiece study by Dean Cornwell would be it. Every line has meaning and not a line out of place, as Cornwell d...
Pastel
