Maxwell Coburn Whitmore
(June 11, 1913 – October 12, 1988)
[M.C. Whitmore]
Social Security Number
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287-10-5182, at the Social Security Death Index via FamilySearch.org. was an American painter and magazine illustrator known for his ''
Saturday Evening Post
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'' covers, and a
commercial artist whose work included
advertisement
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s for
Gallo Wine
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and other brands. He additionally became known as a race-car designer.
Whitmore was inducted into the
Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame in 1978.
Biography
Early life and career
Coby Whitmore was born in
Dayton, Ohio, the son of Maxwell Coburn Whitmore Sr. and Charlotte Bosler. He graduated from Steele High School
[ and attended the ]Dayton Art Institute
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.[ Whitmore moved to New York in 1942 and shortly afterward joined the Charles E. Cooper Studio, on West 57th Street in New York City.][ Additional, July 16, 2009] There he illustrated for leading magazines of the day and did other commercial art.
Whitmore and Jon Whitcomb were two of the top illustrators at Cooper, which in the 1940s and 1950s "monopolized the ladies' magazines like '' McCall's'', '' Ladies Home Journal'', and '' Good Housekeeping'' with postwar images of the ideal white American family centered around pretty, middle-class, female consumers living happily in new kitchens, new houses, driving new cars, living with handsome husbands, adorable children, and cute dogs".
Aside from women's magazines, Whitmore also illustrated for ''Esquire
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'', '' The Saturday Evening Post'' and '' Sports Illustrated''.
Later life and career
Additionally, Whitmore, by then living in Briarcliff Manor, New York
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, teamed with former World War II fighter pilot John Fitch, an imported car dealer in White Plains, New York, to design and race sports cars in the 1950s and 1960s.
Personal life
He and his wife, Virginia, moved Hilton Head, South Carolina, in 1968.
Legacy
Whitmore's work influenced such comic-book artists as ,[Spurlock, David J., and John Buscema, ''John Buscema Sketchbook'' (Vanguard Productions: Lebanon, N.J. 2001), Hardcover , signed-numbered hardcover , ]trade paperback Trade paperback may refer to:
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, p. 27. John Romita, Sr.
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,[Spurlock, J. David, and John Romita. ''John Romita Sketchbook''. (Vanguard Productions: Lebanon, N.J. 2002) , p. 16] and Phil Noto. Glen Murakami, producer of the 2000s '' Teen Titans'' animated series on Cartoon Network
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, cited Whitmore and fellow illustrator Bob Peak as "big influences on the loose, painterly style we have been using for the backgrounds".
His work was presented alongside that of several contemporaries of illustrator Al Parker
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Early career
Parker was born in Natick, Massachusetts. After arriv ...
in the "Re-Imagining the American Woman" section of the retrospective "Ephemeral Beauty: Al Parker and the American Women's Magazine, 1940-1960", mounted by the Norman Rockwell Museum from June 9 to October 28, 2007.
Whitmore art is included in the permanent collections of The Pentagon, the United States Air Force Academy, the New Britain Museum of American Art, and Syracuse University
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.
Accolades
Whitmore was inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame in 1978.
References
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American magazine illustrators
American art educators
1913 births
1988 deaths
Artists from Dayton, Ohio
People from Briarcliff Manor, New York