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Albert Dorne
Albert Dorne’s success as an illustrator, and later as a businessman, is a resounding testament to good old-fashioned hard work and perseverance. Born into the slums of New York’s East Side in 1904, Dorne’s childhood was marred by severe poverty and illness. Overcoming tuberculosis, a heart condition, as well as a thoroughly inadequate education, Albert [...]
J.C. Leyendecker
The preeminent American illustrator for the first three decades of the Twentieth Century, J.C. Leyendecker’s influence has encompassed a countless number of visual artists, while spanning several generations. His emphatic brushwork and heroic, young men, have stamped an indelible image of sophistication and virility, upon America’s visual conscience. Joseph Christian Leyendecker was born in Germany in [...]