Francis Marshall (1901-1980)

Francis Marshall was a British magazine and book illustrator, whose short stint as a comic artist included illustrations for installments of the French vertical comic strip 'Le Crime Ne Paie Pas' by Paul Gordeaux.

Early life and career
William Francis Marshall was born in 1901 and educated at the Slade College of Fine Art in London. He began his career in advertising illustration. In 1928 he began a collaboration with Condé Nast as an illustrator for their magazine Vogue, to which he contributed during a period of ten years. He also painted numerous covers for romantic fiction especially the Barbara Cartland titles for PAN, Bantam, Corgi and NEL amongst others. He furthermore had a weekly fashion feature in the Daily Mail.

Commenti

Post popolari in questo blog

Martin Claus, 1880-1956 (at least that's what we think, but it might be not totally correct), german illustrator. We don't know much about his life, we can try to stitch together a timeline of his career from the dates of some of his works

The earliest example of his illustration is from a 1919 edition of the satirical magazine Meggendorfer Bl ätter, he would have been 31 years old, so it's sure that there are earlier works, but there's no evidence of them. Probably he was employed by the magazine as a staff artist. He had a different range of styles and techniques used all with technical and creative success .

Continua a leggere

Peggy Bacon

Margaret Frances Bacon (May 2, 1895 – January 4, 1987) was an American artist, best known for her satirical caricatures. Bacon studied under Kenneth Hayes Miller at the Art Students League of New York, where she taught herself drypoint and published her first caricatures in the student magazine. They soon appeared in publications such as The New Yorker and Vanity Fair, as well as major art galleries. Bacon earned many awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship for creative work in the graphic arts.

Continua a leggere

Piotr Jabłoński illustrator concept artist.Bialystok, Poland

Continua a leggere

Illustrationintheworld

Cerca nel blog