Comments on: Dean Cornwell

By: Howard

Howard — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:05:05 +0000

Howard Pyle is just a gorgeous author.

By: Li-An

Li-An — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:48:56 +0000

Thanks for this publicity :-) Well, there is a lot of American artists :-))

By: Charley Parker

Charley Parker — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:53:05 +0000

Don't feel bad, most Americans have no idea what Bastille Day is. ;-] Other readers should check out Li-An's blog, which covers a wide range of topics in illustration and comics from a French perspective.

By: Li-An

Li-An — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 06:14:04 +0000

Labour day ? I’m not enough aware of American culture, sorry for that :-) I have to post something about Cornwell one of this day on my blog.

By: Charley Parker

Charley Parker — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 05:12:47 +0000

Wow. It's great just to know that these resources exist! Thanks! I certainly hope the films are at least being preserved digitally. It would be terrific to have them avaliable. I would particularly love to see films of Dunn teaching, if they exist. I do know that some of Reilly's own teachings are being preserved in the notes of his students, like those that Doug Higgins has generously made available online. (Here's my post on Frank Reilly.) I've also found that that some other remarkable art teachers have been documented in film or video. Some of the lectures of Robert Beverly Hale, for example, have been preserved, as noted in the comments from videographer Tom Hall in my post on Hale. (Unfortunately, they're priced for schools an not for individuals.)

By: James Gurney

James Gurney — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 01:00:50 +0000

One of the more astounding resources on Cornwell that I’ve seen recently is a film made by Cornwell’s student Frank Reilly as part of Reilly’s “Artist at work” series. The original 16mm film is in color and soundâ€”â€”impressive technology for the day.

The film shows Cornwell in 1947 puffing for a second on his cigar and then reading a prepared statement about his ideals for illustration. And then he demonstrates his amazingly confident left-handed layin procedure using India ink and umber washes to establish “The Fight at Minowa,” one of his illustrations for The Robe by Lloyd Douglas.

The great illustration teachers Steve Kloepfer and Chuck Pyle of the Academy of Art University in SF know more about these long lost Reilly films. I understand that because of rights issues, this material can’t be released widely but I hope the rightsholdersâ€”â€”whoever they areâ€”â€”decide to share the films of Cornwell, Dunn, Crandall, Gruger and others on YouTube some day, because I believe that is what Reilly and his subjects originally intended.

By: Charley Parker

Charley Parker — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:13:37 +0000

Thanks for the comments, Li-An. True, there are other, more representative, images of Cornwell’s that I could have chosen. I picked this one because today is the Labor Day holiday in the U.S., and this image seemed appropriate.

By: Li-An

Li-An — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 17:15:27 +0000

You did a strange choice for your picture :-)I thing they are more interesting pictures of him. I’ve got the book (I paid a very high price in Paris. But it was before I knew Amazon). The story about the Hearst’s wall is very funny :-))