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Mead Schaeffer (1898-1980) |
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Equally adept at portraying adventure or romance, Mead Schaeffer is
best remembered for illustrating a series of sixteen classic texts
for publisher Dodd Mead during the twenties and thirties. Trained by
both
Dean Cornwell
and Harvey Dunn,
Schaeffer combined Cornwell’s fluid compositions with Dunn’s
bravura brushstrokes. This distinctive style, combined with a
precise eye for detail and a deft handling of light and dark, served
him well as one of the foremost illustrators of magazine fiction in
the 1930’s. In the 1940’s, inspired by friend and neighbor
Norman Rockwell,
he executed several memorable covers for The Saturday Evening
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Prisoner Enters the Dungeon |
1928 |
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Oil on canvas, 32 inches x 26
inches |
| The Count of Monte Christo, Alexandre Dumas, NY: Dodd Mead & Co, 1928,
between p. 38 & 39. |
| Caption: The prisoner
followed his guide who led him into a subterranean room
whose bare and reeking walls seemed as though impregnated
with tears |
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