biography of Alan Cantwell DUNN (1900-1974)

Birth place: Belmar, NJ

Addresses: New York, NY

Profession: Cartoonist, writer, illustrator, painter, lithographer

Studied: Columbia Univ; Nat. Acad. Design Art School; Louis Comfort Tiffany Found.; Fontainebleau Ecole Des Arts, France; hon. vis. fel. Am. Acad. Rome, 1923-24.

Exhibited: AIC, 1925; Salons of Am., 1929; one-man exhib, Social Comment Art, Hamilton College, 1968; Syracuse Univ.; Princeton Mus. of Art; also other national & international exhibs.

Member: NYWCC; Tiffany Fnd.; AWCS; Assoc. Magazine Contributors; Author's Guild.

Work: Library of Congress; Alan Dunn Manuscript Collection, Syracuse Univ.; Metrop. Mus. of Art, New York, NY; plus many others.

Comments: Preferred media: lithographic crayon, ink. Positions: contrib. staff, New Yorker Magazine, 1926-; editorial cartoonist, Architectural Record, 1936-. Publications: Rejection, 1932; Who's Paying for this Cab 1945; The Last Lath, 1947; East of Fifth, 1948; Should It Gurgle, 1957; Is There Intelligent life on Earth, 1960; Portfolio of Social Cartoons, 1957 to 1968, 1968; plus three others.

Sources: WW73; WW47.