Edward Mason Eggleston

This article is about the painter and illustrator. For the historian and writer, see Edward Eggleston.

Edward Mason Eggleston
Edward M. Eggleston in 1937, painting an Image used for the Great Lakes Exposition posters and pamphlets.
Born(1882-11-22)November 22, 1882[1]
Ashtabula, Ohio[2]
DiedJanuary 14, 1941(1941-01-14) (aged 58)[3]
New York City
Alma materColumbus Art School
Known forStorytelling images, fashion and fantasy images, portraits, calendar and advertising illustrations
MovementArt Deco, Genre painting, Fantasy art
Art Deco examples
Although not all of Eggleston’s may be considered Art Deco, he did create pieces with elements of the genre, including bright colors, abstracted florals, clean lines, sweeping curves and geometric shapes.
Art Deco depicts the modern. Here, modern living, modern choice of clothes, solid buildings with geometric shapes and clean lines.

Edward Mason Eggleston (22 November 1882 – 14 January 1941) was an American painter who specialized in calendar portraits of women, fashionable and fantastic. He was also a well known commercial illustrator doing work for companies such as the Fisk Tire Company, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Great Lakes Exposition.

He attended the Columbus Art School in Columbus, Ohio and moved to New York about 1915, where he worked to illustrate magazine covers, travel posters, advertisements and calendars.[2][4] He worked primarily with oil paints on canvas, and also with pastels, water colors, and gouache.[5]

Eggleston tapped into an American trend toward escapist fantasy during the Great Depression years of the 1930s.[6][7] Described as "storytelling," his calendar works focused on women in stylish and fashionable dresses and hats, swimwear, or costumed as Native-American women, "Egyptian goddesses," pirate girls, and women in the character of Peter Pan.[2][6][5]

Style and the Golden Age of Illustration

Eggleston painted to create illustrations. He was a successful illustrator during the 1920s and 1930s, a period included in the Golden Age of Illustration.

The work of artists, Eggleston included, was influenced by what would sell to the American public. While boundaries were pushed with some images, such as in areas of nudity and sexuality, publishers sought images that would sell. One aspect of Modernism (of which Art Deco is part) was that artists were resisting a status quo. It meant an artist deciding for himself or herself what standards he would aspire to achieve. By the very nature of illustration, art in which a publisher or editor has a say, the artist's deciding for himself the standards he will meet is limited.

Early life and education

Eggleston was born in Ashtabula, Ohio. By his late teens, he was living in Columbus, and was counted there in US Census in 1900.

He attended the Columbus Art School.

He was married in Montgomery, Ohio in 1907 to Ethel Grace Leland. Around 1908, they moved to Rochester, New York, where he was listed as a "designer" in the 1909 and 1910 city directory.

By 1918, Eggleston established his own business in Brooklyn, describing himself as a commercial illustrator in his registration for the draft.

Commercial

Painter versus illustrator, color palette
As a 20th-century illustrator, Eggleston may have had to think about the final printing process when choosing colors, because the printing process changes them.
When his painting was printed, the colors were muted.
For a painter, the painting is the final product. An illustrator's painting might be only one stage of image creation.

Eggleston created artwork for use in magazines.[8] The work can be broadly categorized as illustrations for stories and advertisements.

His work for Chase Velmo upholstery, used for car seats, showed women (and a few men) admiring or luxuriating in the upholstery of the automobile. He created artwork for Willys-Knight, Gardner, Cadillac, Kissel, Studebaker, and Buick, showing the luxury of the car interiors and exteriors.[8]

Better known works

In 1916, Eggleston created an iconic painting for the Fisk Tire Company, one of a number of illustrations the company used to show its advertising icon, a boy with a tire. Eggleston's painting was printed, the print varnished to resemble a painting, and hung in Fisk tire stores. He also created the art for a Great Lakes Exposition advertisement in 1937, used on "millions of posters and booklets."[9][10] He also did an Art Deco series of paintings featuring railroad destinations for the Pennsylvania Railroad.[4][7]

He produced art for calendar makers. His images were also used for jigsaw puzzles.[8]

List of works

Variations of Flame of the Mesa
The printing process allowed different versions to be made from one painting.

Fashionable

  • 1914, girl with fishing pole[11]
  • 1916 woman with skis
  • 1916 woman with iceskates
  • 1919 "The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi"[12][13] or 1920 "Dixie"[12]
  • 1925 Portrait, jewelry catalog
  • 1926 "The Opera Queen"[14]
  • 1927 "Hello"[15] or "Night and the stars are calling"
  • 1928 "Moonlight and You"
  • 1928 "The Valentine Girl"[16]
  • 1928 "Wonderful One"[17]
  • 1929 "Memories"[18]
  • 1929 "Golden Glory"[19]
  • 1929 "Sunshine"[20]
  • 1930 "Going Up"[21]
  • 1930 "Here I Am"[22]
  • 1930 "Vacation Days"  woman in a red swimsuit calendar photo[22]
  • 1932 "A Day in June", girl and butterfly[23]
  • 1931"Top 'O the World", Woman with horse, '30s
  • 1932 girl picking flowers under blue sky
  • 1933 "A-milking we will go"
  • 1933 "Found"
  • 1934 "On Time"[24]
  • 1934 "Girl in Red Gown"[25]
  • 1934 "Moonlight and Roses"
  • 1937 "Lantern Glow"[26]
  • 1937 "Tambourine Dancer"
  • 1938 "A Bonnie Lassie"[27][2]
  • 1938 "Orchids"[28][29]
  • 1939 "Riding High" woman on horseback in front of red cliff[30]
  • "The Beauty"
Fantasy Theme, Peter Pan
Indian maidens feature in at least seven works.
Pirates are shown in four paintings.
A girl in the ocean like a mermaid
Along with Peter Pan, Eggleston illustrated characters that are similar to those in the book, although all are female. Only Peter Pan is named.

Fantasy

  • c. 1925 "Isle of Dreamy Melodies"
  • 1927 "Indian Love Call"[31]
  • 1929 "Pirate Queen of the Deck"[8]
  • 1929 "Starlight"[32]
  • 1929 "Bringing Home the Treasure"[33]
  • 1930 "Pipes of Pan" or "Melody"[34]
  • 1930 "Princess of the Treasure Isle"
  • 1931 "Evening Star"[35]
  • 1931 "Nymph and Frog" or "Enchantment"[36][37][38]
  • Couple sits looking at images in distance
  • 1931 "Peter Pan"[39] standing on rock
  • 1931 "Queen of the Waves"
  • 1932 Fantasy castle landscape
  • 1932/33 "Flame of the Mesa"[40]
  • 1932 "Red Wing"
  • 1932 "The Treasure Princess"[41]
  • 1933 "Mariquita" or "Spanish Dancer"[42][43]
  • 1933 "Softly play the Pipes of Pan"[44]
  • 1933 "The Proposal" or "Hearts Unmasked", c 1933[7]
  • 1933 "Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, 1933
  • 1933 "Reaching for the Moon"[45]
  • 1934 "The Paradise of Peter Pan" 1934 calendar with baby birds
  • 1934 "Cleopatra"[46]
  • 1935 "Peter Pan"[47] with seagulls
  • 1935 "Queen of the Mountain Tribes"
  • 1936 "Flaming Arrow"[48]
  • 1936 "Playmates of Peter Pan"
  • 1937 "Found"
  • 1937 "Who, Who's There?" 1939 pinup[49][50]
  • 1938 "Lady of Mystery"[51]
  • "Gypsy Love Call"
  • Dream Castle" or "Daydreams"

Still life or landscape

  • 1932 Pillared terrace overlooks a fantasy castle across the water
  • 1940s Lake Waterfall Cabin Salesman Sample Calendar Print

Travel posters and advertisements

  • 1916 Fisk Tires Sleepy Boy
  • 1935 Pennsylvania Railroad, Atlantic City, America's Great All Year Resort[52]
  • 1935 Pennsylvania Railroad, Atlantic City, America's All Year Resort[53]
  • 1935 Pennsylvania Railroad, Atlantic City, America's Greatest Seashore Resort
  • 1935 Pennsylvania Railroad, Washington, The City Beautiful
  • 1937 Billy Rose's Aquacade, Great Lakes Exposition
  • 1937 Great Lakes Exposition

Puzzles

  • Bessie Nowell, "Bringing Home the Treasure"[54]
  • Buckingham Jig Picture Puzzle, "Princess of the Treasure Isle"
  • Detroit Gasket and Manufacturing Company, Dee-Gee puzzles, "Flame of the Mesa"
  • Detroit Gasket and Manufacturing Company, Dee-Gee puzzles, "Isle of Dreamy Melodies"
  • Detroit Gasket and Manufacturing Company, Dee-Gee puzzles, "Starlight
  • Detroit Gasket and Manufacturing Company, Dee-Gee puzzles, "Treasure Princess[55]
  • Einson-Freeman Company, "The Proposal"
  • Harter Jiggety Jig, "Princess of Treasure Isle"
  • Jumble Jig Saw Puzzles, "Princess of the Treasure Isle"[56]
  • Louis F. Dow Company Jig Zag puzzle, "Evening Star"
  • Parker Brothers, "Paradise of Peter Pan"[57]
  • Madmar Quality Company, Inc, "Indian Love Call"
  • Royal Picture Puzzle, "Gypsy Love Call"
  • Tuco Workshops, Inc., Tuco puzzle, "Cleopatra"
  • Tuco Workshops, Inc., Tuco puzzle, "Paul Revere's Ride"
  • Unknown maker, "Queen of the Dock"[58]
See: Edward Mason Eggleston at Wikimedia Commons for more complete gallery
  • 1914, girl with fishing pole
  • Philadelphia Record Sunday Magazine, January 23, 1916
  • 1919 The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi was modified in 1929 and called "Dixie."
  • c. 1925 "Isle of Dreamy Melodies," girl in moonlight with a ukulele
  • 1926 “The Opera Queen”
  • 1928 "Valentine Girl" used on cover of Dennison's Party Magazine, January/February 1928[16]
  • 1929 "Golden Glory"
  • 1929 "Memories"
  • 1933, "Softly Play the Pipes of Pan"
  • 1931 “The Treasure Princess”
  • 1931 "Evening Star"
  • 1931 "Going Up"
  • 1932, A Day in June
  • 1932, Let's Go America
  • 1932, Red Wing
  • 1933 "The Proposal" or "Hearts Unmasked"
  • 1933 "Mariquita" or "Spanish Dancer"[42]
  • 1934 "Cleopatra"
  • 1935 poster for Atlantic City and the Pennsylvania Railroad
  • 1936 "Joy of Youth"
  • 1937 "In the Spotlight"
  • 1939 "Lady of Mystery"
  • "Sunshine" 1929
  • "Flaming Arrow" 1936

Citations

  1. ^ "Edward M Eggleston in the U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918". ancestry.com. Retrieved April 5, 2020. Name: Edward M Eggleston Race: White Birth Date: 22 Nov 1882 Street address: 1722 Caton Ave. Residence Place: Brooklyn, Kings, New York, USA Relative: Mrs Ethel Grace Eggleston Present occupation:Illustrator (Commercial)
  2. ^ a b c d Smith, Tim; Smith, Michelle (2009). Joliet's Gerlach Barklow Calendar Company. Arcadia Publishing. p. 113. ISBN 9780738577265. ...best known for his images of Indian maidens, pirate girls, and bathing girls in swimsuits, as well as Peter Pan images.
  3. ^ "Edward Eggleston in the New York, Death Index, 1852-1956". ancestry.com. Retrieved April 5, 2020. Name: Edward Eggleston Age: 59 Birth Date: abt 1882 Death Date: 14 Jan 1941 Death Place: New York, New York, USA
  4. ^ a b Grafton, Carol Belanger (April 15, 2010). 60 Great Travel Posters. Courier Corporation. p. 61. ISBN 9780486990422. – Pennsylvania Railroad travel poster
  5. ^ a b "You Are The One". shhboomgallery.com. Retrieved April 6, 2020.
  6. ^ a b "Edward Eggleston: Nymph and Frog, 1930s". 1stdibs.com. Retrieved April 6, 2020. In part as an escapist response...a huge trend of calendar art featuring exotic fantasy-themed, ethereal and breezy images of harem attired pin-up girls, and Egyptian goddesses, and mythical nudes...Edward Eggleston...seems to have taken that declaration as direct inspiration for much of his calendar work.
  7. ^ a b c "The Proposal". grapefruitmoongallery.com. 28 July 2014. Retrieved April 5, 2020. ...appeared in 1933 as a calendar print with the title Hearts Unmasked, and...as a puzzle with the title The Proposal...a pierrot clown trying to win the hand of a pretty maiden
  8. ^ a b c d Book: Lady of Mystery: A Collector's Guide to Edward Eggleston by Norman I. Platnick, p.33
  9. ^ Great Lakes Exposition 1937 (Poster). Cleveland, Ohio: Great Lakes Exposition. 1937. Retrieved April 5, 2020.
  10. ^ "Poster Girl for Great Lakes Exposition". The Noblesville Ledger. Noblesville, Indiana. March 11, 1937. p. 6. Retrieved April 5, 2020. Poster Girl for Great Lakes Exposition...EDWARD M. EGGLESTON, noted American painter and former Columbus, Ohio resident just completed an oil of nineteen-year-old Edith Backus...used on the millions of posters and booklets...
  11. ^ "Edward M. Eggleston (1883-1941) Original Calendar/Advertising | Lot #2094". Heritage Auctions.
  12. ^ a b "Sweetheart of Sigma-Chi • Grapefruit Moon Gallery". Grapefruit Moon Gallery. February 10, 2008. a commissioned calendar artwork under the title "The Sweetheart of Sigmi-Chi." Produced in 1919 this same image also appeared (with a riverboat superimposed above the subject's right shoulder) under the title "Dixie.
  13. ^ "EDWARD EGGLESTON (American 1883 - 1941). The Sweetheart of Sigma | Lot #58166". Heritage Auctions.
  14. ^ Copyrighted in 1926: Murphy (Thos D.) Company, Red Oak, Iowa: Opera Queen. Three-quarter length figure of a girl in evening dress, with cloak falling from shoulders, holding feather fan back of the head. Nov 8 1926
  15. ^ [copyright book:] Hello 4519 Dec 27 1937
  16. ^ a b "The Valentine Girl • Grapefruit Moon Gallery". Grapefruit Moon Gallery. May 6, 2011.
  17. ^ "1928 calendar".
  18. ^ Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 4. Works of Art, Etc. New Series. Washington DC: US Government Printing Office. 1930. pp. 34–35. Brown & Bigelow, St. Paul 1023-1071...Memories © 1 c. Dec. 26, 1929; K 8865-8911
  19. ^ Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 4. Works of Art, Etc. New Series. Washington DC: US Government Printing Office. 1930. pp. 34–35. Brown & Bigelow, St. Paul. 1023-1071...Golden Glory...© Dec. 26, 1929
  20. ^ Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 4. Works of Art, Etc. New Series. Washington DC: US Government Printing Office. 1930. p. 48. Dow (Louis F.) co. 2758-2781...[Sunshine]...© Dec. 5, 1929
  21. ^ Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 4. Works of Art, Etc. New Series. Washington DC: US Government Printing Office. 1930. p. 30. Artographic corp., Joliet, Ill. 717-736...Going Up...© Jan. 1, 1930
  22. ^ a b Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 4. Works of Art, Etc. New Series. Washington D.C.: US Government Printing Office. 1930. p. 30. Artographic corp., Joliet, Ill. 717-736...Vacation days...© Jan. 1, 1930
  23. ^ Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 4. Works of Art, Etc. New Series. Washington D.C.: US Government Printing Office. 1931. pp. 66–67. Brown & Bigelow. 3324-3365...Day in June...© Dec. 26, 1931
  24. ^ "On Time by Edward Eggleston - Vintage Small Format Gems Gallery at I Desire Vintage Posters". www.idesirevintageposters.com.
  25. ^ [copyright book] Osborne Company Girl in Red Gown 4323 June 28, 1934
  26. ^ Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 4. Works of Art, Etc. New Series. US Government Printing Office. 1939. pp. 48–49. Osborne co. 2503-2607... Lanterns...E. M. Eggleston...© Dec. 27, 1937
  27. ^ [copyright book:] Gerlach-Barlkow Co: Bonnie Lassie Dec 27, 1938
  28. ^ [copyright book:] Wright V. P. [publisher] Orchid(s) 0205 Dec 1, 1938
  29. ^ bottom of print: "Orchids" auction report: Edward M. Eggleston (1883-1941) Original Pin-up / Glamour Art (c.1930). Published as a calendar print. Original works by this artist are exceedingly uncommon, especially in this medium. Pastel on board, framed (31.5 x 25.5), sight size approximately 27 x 21. Signed lower left.
  30. ^ Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 4. Works of Art, Etc. New Series. Vol. 1. US Government Printing Office. 1940. p. 6. American art works, inc. 267-279...Riding High; by Edward N. Eggleston...© Dec. 26, 1939
  31. ^ "Catalog of copyright entries. n.s. pt.4 v.23-24 1928-1929 Engravings". Catalog of Copyright Entries.musical Compositions: 56. 1927–1928. Dow (Louis F) co., St Paul 2676-2694...[Indian love call]...Dec. 1, 1927
  32. ^ Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 4. Works of Art, Etc. New Series. US Government Printing Office. 1933. pp. 34–35. Brown & Bigelow, St. Paul 1023-1071...Statlight © 1 c. Dec. 26, 1929; K 8865-8911
  33. ^ "Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 4. Works of Art, Etc. New Series". Catalog of Copyright Entries.musical Compositions. Washington D.C.: US Government Printing Office: 30–31. 1933. Brown and Bigelow, St. Paul. 814-854...[Treasure Princess] Jan 1, 1929
  34. ^ Murphy (Thos D.) Company: Pipes of Pan. Girl in Peter Pan costume with pipes in left hand is seated on rock at left. Hills in background.] 4740 Nov 8 1930.
  35. ^ Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 4. Works of Art, Etc. New Series. 1933. p. 71. Dow (Louis F.) co. 3597-3612...[Evening Star]...© Dec. 10, 1931
  36. ^ Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 4. Works of Art, Etc. New Series. Washington DC: US Government Printing Office. 1931. p. 15. Amer. art works, inc. 689-721...Enchantment...© Dec. 11, 1931
  37. ^ [Heritage Auctions report: Nyph and the Frog Oil on canvas 36 x 27-1/4 inches (91.4 x 69.2 cm) Signed lower left: Eggleston
  38. ^ "Enchantment". grapefruitmoongallery.com. 2 February 2020. Retrieved April 14, 2020. Enchantment published by the American Art Works Calendar Company in the early 1930s.
  39. ^ Murphy (Thos D.) Company: Peter Pan. Figure dressed in shirt, blouse, short trousers and cap with feather, standing on a rock. Snow covered mountains in background. 7318 Oct 28, 1931
  40. ^ "Dee Gee Picture Puzzle". www.puzzlearchives.com.
  41. ^ Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 4. Works of Art, Etc. New Series. Washington D.C.: US Government Printing Office. 1933. p. 20. Brown & Bigelow. 857-886...Treasure Princess...© Dec. 26, 1932
  42. ^ a b Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 4. Works of Art, Etc. New Series. 1933. p. 76. Dow (Louis F.) co. 3634-3663...[Mariquite]...© Jan. 10, 1933
  43. ^ "Photo of 1934 calendar of Mariquita image".
  44. ^ Murphy (Thos. D.) Company: Softly Play the Pipes of Pan. Nov 11 1933. [copyright book]
  45. ^ Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 4. Works of Art, Etc. New Series. Washington D.C.: US Government Printing Office. 1933. p. 23. Colson (U. Rae) 1021-1031...Reaching for the moon...© Feb. 1, 1933
  46. ^ Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 4. Works of Art, Etc. New Series. 1934. p. 175. Decker (Beatrice) 9546-9578...Cleopatra, 3006...Sept. 1, 1934
  47. ^ [copyright book:] American Lithographic Company Peter Pan April 29, 1935
  48. ^ Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 4. Works of Art, Etc. New Series. Washington DC: US Government Printing Office. 1936. p. 210. Decker (Beatrice) 10602-10633...Flaming Arrow 3066 Oct. 1, 1936
  49. ^ Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 4. Works of Art, Etc. New Series. Washington DC: US Government Printing Office. 1936. p. 192. American art works, inc. 10153-10464... Who—who's there...© Dec. 27, 1937 (note: this was credited Benjamin Eggleston in American Artworks copyright; shown to be Edward M. Eggleston, see image on commons).
  50. ^ "Who – Who's There? • Grapefruit Moon Gallery". Grapefruit Moon Gallery. May 27, 2018.
  51. ^ Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 4. Works of Art, Etc. New Series. US Government Printing Office. 1939. p. 60. V. P. Wright 3468-3481 Lady of Mystery Dec 1, 1938
  52. ^ "Pennsylvania Railroad, Atlantic City".
  53. ^ "Pennsylvania Railroad Atlantic City Metal Sign-Historic Rail". www.historicrail.com.
  54. ^ "Bringing Home the Treasure | Bob Armstrong's Old Jigsaw Puzzles". www.oldpuzzles.com.
  55. ^ "The Treasure Princess | Bob Armstrong's Old Jigsaw Puzzles". www.oldpuzzles.com.
  56. ^ "Princess of the Treasure Isle | Bob Armstrong's Old Jigsaw Puzzles". www.oldpuzzles.com.
  57. ^ "Paradise of Peter Pan | Bob Armstrong's Old Jigsaw Puzzles". www.oldpuzzles.com.
  58. ^ "Queen of the Dock | Bob Armstrong's Old Jigsaw Puzzles". www.oldpuzzles.com.

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