biography of Dean CORNWELL (1892-1960)

Birth place: Louisville, KY

Death place: New York, NY

Addresses: NYC

Profession: Illustrator, mural painter

Studied: AIC, with Harvey Dunn, Charles A. Chapman; mural painting with Frank Brangwyn

Exhibited: Wilmington SFA, 1919, 1921 (prize); AIC, 1922, 1928, 1930; SC, 1927 (prize); PAFA, 1928; Allied A. Am., 1939 (prize); Arch. Lg., 1939; SC (prize); Arch. Lg. (gold medal); Illustration House, NYC, 1990

Member: NA; NSMP (pres., 1953-56); SI (pres., 1922); NAC; Century Assn.; Arch. Lg.; NAC; Mural Painters; Players Club; Chelsea Arts Club, London; London Sketch Club; SC; AAPL; Calif. AC.

Work: murals, Los Angeles Public Lib.; Lincoln Memorial Shrine, Redlands, CA; Davidson County Court House, Nashville, TN; State Office Bldg., Nashville, TN; Eastern Airlines Bldg., NY; USPOs in Chapel Hill and Morgantown, NC; Raleigh Room, Hotel Warwick, NY; General Motors Bldg., WFNY 1939; New England Tel. & Tel. Co., Boston; Detroit Athletic Club; Bethlehem Steel Co., Bethlehem, PA; Springfield (MA) Fire Ins. Co.; murals, Gomper's Room, Int. Labor Office, Geneva, 1955; 3 murals, inlaid marble, Battle Monument, American Cemetery, Neuville-en-Condroz, Belgium, 1958; 2 murals, Mfrs. Nat. Bank, Lewiston, ME, 1958-59.

Comments: Influenced early by Harvey Dunn, he later incorporated into his work the graphic and decorative Brandywine technique to become one of America's most important illustrators and an influential teacher at the ASL. He was also a WPA muralist. His illustrations appear in many books and national magazines.

Sources: WW59; WW47; Peggy and Harold Samuels, 108.