John Cecil Clay
John Cecil Clay, 1875–1930, was an American illustrator known for genre and caricature paintings.
Clay was born in Ronceverte, West Virginia to a long-time Southern family. He was a student of Henry Siddons Mowbray at the Art Students League of New York and had a graphic style that was suited to illustration. A recurring subject was pretty young women. During his life he worked for Life and Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly.
He was a member of Society of Illustrators and was represented at the St. Louis Exposition-World's Fair 1904. Apart from the above-mentioned magazines he also worked as an illustrator for The Century Magazine, Saturday Evening Post and Good Housekeeping.
References
[edit]- http://www.askart.com/AskART/artists/biography.aspx?artist=104775
- http://www.steveartgallery.se/upload1/file-admin/images/new9/John%20Cecil%20Clay-337737.jpg
External links
[edit]- Works by John Cecil Clay at Project Gutenberg
- Works by John Cecil Clay at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Works by or about John Cecil Clay at the Internet Archive