01 Painting, The art of War, Dean Cornwell's Wartime Evacuation, with Footnotes

Dean Cornwell (American, 1892-1960)

Wartime Evacuation, c. 1939

Oil on board

40 x 29-1/2 inches (101.6 x 74.9 cm)

Private collection

Estimate for  $10,000 - $15,000 in Nov 2023

Dean Cornwell (March 5, 1892 – December 4, 1960) was an American illustrator and muralist. Cornwell was born in Louisville, Kentucky. His father, Charles L. Cornwell, was a civil engineer whose drawings of industrial subjects fascinated Cornwell as a child. He began his professional career as a cartoonist for the Louisville Herald. Soon thereafter he moved to Chicago, where he studied at the Art Institute and worked for the Chicago Tribune. In 1915 he moved to New Rochelle, New York, a well known artist colony, and studied in New York City under Harvey Dunn at the Art Students League of New York. Eventually he traveled to London to study mural painting as an apprentice to Frank Brangwyn.

Cornwell taught and lectured at the Art Students League in New York. He served as president of the Society of Illustrators from 1922 to 1926, and was elected to its Hall of Fame in 1959. In 1934, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate Academician, and became a full Academician in 1940. He served as president of the National Society of Mural Painters from 1953 to 1957.

Cornwell died on December 4, 1960, in New York City at the age of 68. More on Dean Cornwell

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