Dean Cornwell - part 5

Dean Cornwell with model Hjördis Niven
Palm Beach, Florida in 1947

Dean Cornwell (1892-1960) was a left-handed painter and muralist who dominated the illustration field for many years.

He began his professional art career at age 18 as a cartoonist for the Louisville Herald. A year later, he enrolled at the Chicago Art Institute and went to work in the art department of the Chicago Tribune. At the Chicago Art Institute, he met and studied under prominent art educator Harvey Dunn. In 1915 followed Dunn to New York and joined him in his studio-classroom. After studying with Dunn Cornwell quickly became a success.
Cornwell always had a strong work ethic and often worked seventeen-hour days, seven days a week. He produced over 1,000 illustrations for nearly every major publication in the country including Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar, Redbook, and Good Housekeeping magazines.
In 1927 he decided to devote the rest of his life to mural painting and travelled to England to study mural painting for three years under famous muralist and autodidact Frank Brangwyn.
Cornwell taught and lectured at the Art Students League in New York City and served as president of the Society of Illustrators from 1922 to 1926. He received gold medals for mural painting from the Architectural League of New York, as well as gold medals from the Allied Artists of America and the Society of Illustrators.

This is part 5 of a 5-part series on the works of Dean Cornwell:

Note: Dates were not found for the remainder of these images.

n.d. Bedroom
gouache on board 27.9 x 35.6 cm

n.d. Captain Blood

n.d. Captain Blood
oil on canvas 63.5 x 122.9 cm

n.d. Court House, Flemington, New Jersey
charcoal and wash on board 43.8 x 34.3 cm

n.d. Cowboy Knitting

n.d. Factory Workers
mixed media on board 34.3 x 50.8 cm

n.d. Farming Couple
illustration for Good Housekeeping
oil on board 52.7 x 46.4 cm

n.d. Franklin Delano Roosevelt with Motorcade
at Niagara Falls
oil on canvas laid down on masonite 50.8 x 76.2 cm

n.d. Lady
study
oil on cardboard 25.4 x 24.1 cm

n.d. Mutiny
pencil and oil on board 74.9 x 59.1 cm

n.d. Forging a Crankshaft
(study for a mural)

n.d. Forging a Crankshaft
mixed media on board 26.7 x 40 cm

n.d. Steelworkers
(study for a mural)

n.d. The Chemist
pastel on paper 29.2 x 34.3 cm

n.d. The Dawn of Abdominal Surgery "Ephraim McDowell performing the first ovariotomy on Jane Todd Crawford in Danville, Kentucky, 1809"

n.d. The Dawn of Abdominal Surgery "Ephraim McDowell performing the first ovariotomy on Jane Todd Crawford in Danville, Kentucky, 1809"
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