A complex composition of interlocking pyramids defines Cornwell not only as a great storyteller but a master of painting fundamentals. There exists no living artist today who can paint and draw on a level as Dean Cornwell. Work was published in Cosmopolitan magazine: "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" by Ernest Hemingway Reproduced in Dean Cornwell, Dean of Illustrators (Broder) The work is masterfully rendered in the painterly style of a school of post-impressionism. Dean Cornwell was NormanRockwell's favorite Illustrator. He was a student of Harvey Dunn, he, in turn, taught artists and developed talents for a generation. Oils for Cosmopolitan, Redbook, True, American Weekly, Life, Good Housekeeping. Book art for Man from Galilee and others. Ad contracts for GM, Eastern, Pennsylvania Railroad, Paul Jones Whiskey, Aunt Jemima, Seagram's Gin, Woodbury Soap, Palmolive, Coke, Goodyear, New York Life, Squibb. Cornwell was an icon of the "Golden Age of Illustration" $220,000 plus shipping
