Walt Louderback , Sleeping Sailor and Mediterranean Sailboats, 1914-1922

Signed lower right. Work is unframed. Very Slight fading commensurate with time but presents very well
Biography Walt Louderback
Walt Louderback (1887-1941)
The illustrations of Walt Louderback are filled with an atmosphere of romance and drama. Like Dean Cornwell (1892-1960), Louderback worked for Cosmopolitan magazine during the early 1900s. The two men (who may have been friends) shared a painterly technique and a flair for mood, intrigue, and dramatic action in their pictures. That approach came to Louderback and Cornwell honestly, for Cornwell was a student of Harvey Dunn (1884-1952), who was in turn a student of Howard Pyle (1853-1911), the father of American illustration. Both Louderback and Cornwell would have studied illustration at a time when Pyle strode the earth like a giant.
Walt Louderback, American 1892 - 1960
Watercolor on paper
19.50 - 25.25 inches
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