Edwin Davenport: An Illustrator Whose Career Seemed to Peak Around 1927
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Biographical information for the illustrator Edmund Davenport must be someplace, but I can't seem to find it by Googling. Nor can I find it in my personal collection of books about illustration. All I know for sure at this point is that most of the internet images of his work date from 1925-1928. These works include some Saturday Evening Post covers, so Davenport briefly was hitting the big time. Besides the Post, he did covers for other magazines and advertising art for Stutz automobiles and Syracuse China (the latter not shown below). Here are most of the examples of his work that I could find. Gallery Saturday Evening Post cover - 13 June 1925 New graduate literally "on top of the world." Holland's Magazine cover - May 1926 The Elks Magazine cover - February 1926 The Elks are an American fraternal organization. American Magazine cover - November 1928 Stutz advertisement - 1927 This advertisement and the ones below feature simplified backgrounds and contra-jour s