Douglass Crockwell

Douglass Crockwell
Born Spencer Douglass Crockwell
April 29, 1904
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Died November 30, 1968
Glens Falls, New York, United States
Occupation Commercial artist and experimental filmmaker
Spouse(s) Margaret Braman (1933–1968) his death; 3 children

Douglass Crockwell (April 29, 1904, Columbus, Ohio – November 30, 1968, Glens Falls, New York[1]), born Spencer Douglass Crockwell, was an American commercial artist and experimental filmmaker.[2][3][4] He was most famous for his illustrations and advertisements for the Saturday Evening Post and for murals and posters for the Works Progress Administration.[5]

Education and career

He received a B.Sc. from the Washington University (1926) in St. Louis and studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts (1927) and the St. Louis School of Fine Arts (1927–31).[6]

Crockwell's paintings have been featured in advertisements for Friskies dog food and in a poster for the American Relief for Holland. For the latter, he was awarded a gold medal from the Art Director's Club in 1946.

Posters

Crockwell created recruiting and other posters for various branches of the United States government during World War II, and many illustrations for The Saturday Evening Post.[7]

He also created poster art for the MGM film The Yearling (1946).[8]

Filmmaking

In 1934, Crockwell began experimenting with non-representational films while balancing his career as an illustrator. He initially wanted to creat flexible, low-cost animation techniques. In 1936–1937, he collaborated with David Smith, a sculptor, to create surrealistic films.[9]

Clients

Filmography

Legacy

Examples of his work are in the collections of the Pritzker Military Museum and Library, the Bangor Public Library, the Hennepin County Library, the George C. Marshall Library, among others.

Over the course of his career, Crockwell drew over four hundred full-page images; more than three billion prints of his works have been made.[11]

See also

References

  1. ↑ WPAMurals entry
  2. ↑ Douglass Crockwell, Alphabet of Illustrators, Chris Mullen Collection
  3. ↑ Unseen Cinema presentation at University of Texas Ransom Center
  4. ↑ FullTable entry
  5. ↑ Smithsonian American Art Museum entry
  6. ↑ Crockwell entry at AskArt
  7. ↑ Grapefruit Moon Gallery entry
  8. ↑ Crockwell entry at FullTable
  9. ↑ Posner, Bruce (2001). Unseen Cinema: American Avant-Garde Film 1893–1941. New York, New York: Black Thistle Press. p. 81. ISBN 0962818178.
  10. ↑ Grapefruit Moon Gallery entry
  11. ↑ Smithsonian American Art Museum entry

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