Rainwear Illustrators and Artists
1906 - 1985
The "Dean of Illustrators"
Worked for many leading life and fashion magazines, eg Chatelaine, Collier's Weekly, Ladies Home Journal.
Not to be confused with Al Parker
Austin Briggs
1909 - 1973
Background in cartoon work - eg Secret Agent X-9, Flash Gordon Jungle Jim, but later won awards for illustration work for magazines such as TV Guide.
From the AskART.
Light through plastic rainwear
David Apatoff's blog Illustration Art has several beautiful pictures of rainwear art by artists/illustrators Al Parker, Austin Briggs, and Robert Fawcett. In the comments to DA's posting there is also mention of Sangram Majumdar.
Many thanks to Sten for this exciting pointer.
LE
Robert Fawcett
1903 - 1967
A long career in advertising and editorial illustration: "the illustrators illustrator".
"We [illustrators] represent the only view of art, of beauty, to millions of people. If we do less than our best, we cheat them."
From the AskART.
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