Dean Cornwell
(American, 1892–1960)
Biography
Cornwell’s illustrations appeared in popular magazines such as the Saturday Evening Post, Cosmopolitan, and Harper's Bazaar alongside the work of authors including Pearl S Buck, Ernest Hemingway, and W Somerset Maugham. He also worked as a commercial artist for several prominent brands, among them Coca-Cola, Lucky Strike, and Palmolive.
In 1927 Cornwell travelled to London to study mural painting under Frank Brangwyn, assisting on a number of projects including one at the House of Lords. Following his return to the US, Cornwell's fame as a muralist (which had earned him the nickname ‘the Norman Rockwell of muralists’) led to commissions for notable locations such as the Los Angeles Public Library and the New York City Court of Appeals.
Cornwell was President of the National Society of Mural Painters from 1953–57 and was inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame in 1959. He died on December 4, 1960.
Cornwell’s painting Portrait (oil on canvas) was sold for a record-breaking price of $245,700 at auction.
Dean Cornwell Artworks
Dean Cornwell
Pontius Pilate's Banquet, The Robe, book..., 1947
Sale Date: May 3, 2017
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Dean Cornwell
Marcellus and Diana before Caligula, The..., 1947
Sale Date: May 3, 2017
Auction Closed
Dean Cornwell
Bananas/From Lands of Tropical Splendor, 1954
Sale Date: March 12, 2017
Auction Closed
Dean Cornwell
The Callers, Cosmopolitan magazine interior..., 1925
Sale Date: November 12, 2016
Auction Closed
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