Sentences with phrase «employed as an illustrator»

One of his earliest paintings, Green's Cats, 1900 — a stunning art nouveau composition in black and white — features the cats - in - residence at Green's Hotel and Bar, a popular gathering place for the staff of the Philadelphia Press, where he was employed as an illustrator.

Largely a self - taught artist, Wesley developed the basis of his artistic practice while employed as an illustrator in the Production Engineering Department of Northrop Aircraft in the 1950s.

Trained and employed as an illustrator and animator early on, Thiebaud asserted himself as a painter only gradually, zigzagging his way among powerful creative personalities as various as Robert Mallary (1917 - 97), Rico LeBrun (1900 - 64) and, during a sojourn in New York, Willem de Kooning (1904 - 97), Franz Kline (1910 - 62) and Barnett Newman (1905 - 70).

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Magazines such as Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper and Harper's Weekly went a step further: They sent dozens of intrepid professional artists and illustrators into the field — Alfred Waud and Winslow Homer were only the most famous — and employed the fairly new technology of «electrotyping,» which used a combination of chemicals and electric current to make more detailed and easily reproduced prints.

And this all took place against a background of a fearsomely efficient commercial culture, the one that had employed a young Warhol as illustrator, in which denials grow harder to hear anyhow.

Others will see instead the casual mix of art and commerce that employed a young Warhol as illustrator and has made his influence so problematic ever since.