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Maxwell Coburn Whitmore, Jr. (1913-1988) was an American painter, magazine illustrator and a commercial artist whose work included advertisements for Gallo Wine and other national brands.
He additionally became known as a race-car designer.
Whitmore was inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame in 1978.
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His work was presented alongside that of several contemporaries of illustrator Al Parker in the "Re-Imagining the American Woman" section of the retrospective "Ephemeral Beauty: Al Parker and the American Women's Magazine, 1940-1960", mounted by the Norman Rockwell Museum from June 9 to October 28, 2007.
Grace Kelly at 19, Cosmopolitan - November 1948
Coby Whitmore was born in Dayton, Ohio, the son of Maxwell Coburn Whitmore Sr. and Charlotte Bosler, and attended the Dayton Art Institute.
Following an apprenticeship with the "Sundblom Circle" of Chicago, Illinois, illustrator Haddon Sundblom, Whitmore joined the Charles E. Cooper Studio, on West 57th Street in New York City, in 1943. There he illustrated for leading magazines of the day and did other commercial art.
Whitmore and Jon Whitcomb were two of the top illustrators at Cooper, which in the 1940s and 1950s "monopolized the ladies' magazines like McCall's, Ladies Home Journal, and Good Housekeeping with postwar images of the ideal white American family centered around pretty, middle-class, female consumers living happily in new kitchens, new houses, driving new cars, living with handsome husbands, adorable children, and cute dogs".
Additionally, Whitmore, by then living in Briarcliff Manor, New York, teamed with former World War II fighter pilot John Fitch, an imported car dealer in White Plains, New York, to design and race sports cars in the 1950s and 1960s.
Whitmore died in Hilton Head, South Carolina, in 1988 at age 75.
Coby Whitmore - Cosmopolitan July, 1947
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Maxwell Coburn Whitmore (1913-1988) è stato un pittore ed illustratore di riviste Americano, noto per le sue copertine del Saturday Evening Post ed un artista commerciale il cui lavoro includeva pubblicità per Gallo Wine ed altri marchi nazionali.
Divenne inoltre noto come designer di auto da corsa. Whitmore è stato inserito nella Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame nel 1978.
Coby Whitmore è nato a Dayton, Ohio, figlio di Maxwell Coburn Whitmore Sr. e Charlotte Bosler. Si è diplomato alla Steele High School e ha frequentato il Dayton Art Institute.
Dopo essersi trasferito a Chicago, nell'Illinois, ha lavorato come apprendista presso Haddon Sundblom, illustratore del "Sundblom Circle", oltre a lavorare per il Chicago Herald Examiner ed a prendere lezioni serali al Chicago Art Institute.
Whitmore si trasferì a New York nel 1942 e poco dopo si unì al Charles E. Cooper Studio, sulla West 57th Street a New York City.
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Lì ha illustrato per le principali riviste del giorno e ha fatto altre opere d'arte pubblicitaria. Whitmore e Jon Whitcomb erano due dei migliori illustratori di Cooper, che negli anni '40 e '50 "monopolizzava le riviste femminili come McCall's, Ladies Home Journal e Good Housekeeping con immagini del dopoguerra dell'ideale famiglia bianca americana incentrata su persone carine, di mezza età classe, consumatrici che vivono felici in nuove cucine, nuove case, guidano nuove auto, convivono con bei mariti, bambini adorabili e cani carini".
Oltre alle riviste femminili, Whitmore ha illustrato anche per Esquire, The Saturday Evening Post e Sports Illustrated.
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Il lavoro di Whitmore ha influenzato artisti di fumetti come John Buscema, John Romita, Sr., e Phil Noto.
Glen Murakami, produttore della serie animata Teen Titans degli anni 2000 su Cartoon Network, ha citato Whitmore ed il collega illustratore Bob Peak come "grandi influenze libere, lo stile pittorico che abbiamo utilizzato per gli sfondi".
Il suo lavoro è stato presentato insieme a quello di diversi contemporanei dell'illustratore Al Parker nella sezione "Re-Imagining the American Woman" della retrospettiva "Ephemeral Beauty: Al Parker and the American Women's Magazine, 1940-1960", allestita dal Norman Rockwell Museum dal 9 giugno al 28 ottobre 2007.
L'arte di Whitmore è inclusa nelle collezioni permanenti del Pentagono, della United States Air Force Academy, del New Britain Museum of American Art e della Syracuse University. | Fonte: © British Wikipedia
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