Dean Cronwell Art for Sale at Auction

b. 1892 - d. 1960

Nicknamed the « Dean of Illustrators, » Dean Cornwell (1892-1960) was an American illustrator and muralist, often featured in popular magazines such as Cosmopolitan, Harper’s Bazaar or Redbook and books written by Pearl S. Buck, Lloyd Douglas, Ernest Hemingway and many more authors of the second half of the 20th Century.
He realized many illustrations, advertisements and posters promoting the war effort. He is most famous for his murals at the Los Angeles Public Library, the Lincoln Memorial Shrine in Redlands, California and for the New England Telephone headquarters building in Boston.