Douglass Crockwell
Douglass Crockwell | |
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Born | Spencer Douglass Crockwell April 29, 1904 |
Died | November 30, 1968 |
Alma mater | Washington University in St. Louis |
Occupation(s) | Commercial artist and experimental filmmaker |
Spouse(s) | Margaret Braman (1933–1968) his death; 3 children |
Spencer Douglass Crockwell (April 29, 1904,
Education and career
He received a B.Sc. from the
Crockwell's paintings have been featured in advertisements for Friskies dog food and in a poster for the American Relief for Holland. For the latter, he was awarded a gold medal from the Art Director's Club in 1946.
Posters
Crockwell created recruiting and other posters for various branches of the United States government during World War II, and many illustrations for The Saturday Evening Post.[7]
He also created poster art for the
Murals
Federally commissioned murals were produced from 1934 to 1944 in the United States through the
Filmmaking
In 1934, Crockwell began experimenting with non-representational films while balancing his career as an illustrator. He initially wanted to create flexible, low-cost animation techniques. In 1936–1937, he collaborated with David Smith, a sculptor, to create surrealistic films.[10]
Clients
- Brown & Bigelow
- General Electric
- General Motors
- Welch's
- Lederle Laboratories
- Wyeth
- USO
- 18 Saturday Evening Postcovers
- Standard Oil
- General Mills
- Kraft Foods
- Schrafft's Candies
- Kolynos Toothpaste
- Coca-Cola
- Country Gentlemancovers
- Hiram Walker
- Moxie
- International Harvester
- Grace Lines
- 110 United States Brewers' Association ads
- WPA
- Ralston Purina
- McCall's magazine
- Avondale Mills
- American Tobacco Company
- Coronet magazine
- Curtis Publishing Company
- Esquire magazine
- Republic Steel
- United Artists
- Life magazine
- Look magazine
- Camel Cigarettes
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Women's Daymagazine
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer[11]
Filmography
- Glens Falls Sequence (1937–1946)
- Fantasmagoria #1 (1938)
- Fantasmagoria #2 (1939)
- Simple Destiny Abstractions (1939–1940)
- Fantasmagoria #3 (1940)
- The Chase (1942)
- The Long Bodies (1947)
- Mutoscope reels: Red (1949), A Long Body (1950), Random Glow (c. 1950s), Stripes (c. 1950s), Ode to David (c. 1950s), Around the Valley (c. 1950s)
Legacy
Examples of his work are in the collections of the
Over the course of his career, Crockwell drew over four hundred full-page images; more than three billion prints of his works have been made.[12]
See also
References
- ^ "WPAMurals entry". Archived from the original on 2013-01-01. Retrieved 2014-06-11.
- ^ Douglass Crockwell, Alphabet of Illustrators, Chris Mullen Collection
- ^ Unseen Cinema presentation at University of Texas Ransom Center
- ^ FullTable entry
- ^ Smithsonian American Art Museum entry
- ^ Crockwell entry at AskArt
- ^ Grapefruit Moon Gallery entry
- ^ Crockwell entry at FullTable
- ISBN 9780415968263.
- ISBN 0962818178.
- ^ Grapefruit Moon Gallery entry
- ^ Smithsonian American Art Museum entry
Bibliography
- Crockwell, Spencer Douglass. Douglass Crockwell. 1977. OCLC 79834005
- Kettlewell, James K. The Art of Douglass Crockwell. Glens Falls, N.Y.: Hyde Collection, 1977. OCLC 13470694
- New York Times obituary (December 2, 1968)
External links
- Douglass Crockwell at IMDb
- Facebook page on Crockwell
- Paper Workers (1934) at Smithsonian American Art website
- Glens Falls Sequence at Vimeo
- Douglass Crockwell at MoGraphWiki
- "Essential Cinema" at Anthology Film Archives
- Crockwell entry at WPAMurals Archived 2013-01-01 at the Wayback Machine
- Crockwell at AskArt with Saturday Evening Post cover (April 4, 1942)
- Douglass Crockwell