Dean Cornwell collection (download)!!!

[Fvallejo]

Hey folks!

Hope everyones holidays are going well.
So in the spirit of the season I thought I would share my collection of Dean Cornwell illustrations.

If you head over to my blog ( www.francisvallejo.blogspot.com (http://francisvallejo.blogspot.com/) or click below) , you can click a link to download 118 Cornwell illustrations. Earlier this year I apprehended a flat file full of Cornwell original magazine clippings, which I then
scanned in.

Here are some of the files:

http://webspace.ringling.edu/%7Efvallejo/ACCESS/CG320/102.jpg

http://webspace.ringling.edu/%7Efvallejo/ACCESS/CG320/17.jpg

http://webspace.ringling.edu/%7Efvallejo/ACCESS/CG320/33.jpg

http://webspace.ringling.edu/%7Efvallejo/ACCESS/CG320/105.jpg

http://webspace.ringling.edu/%7Efvallejo/ACCESS/CG320/5.jpg

Here's the link to download:

http://webspace.ringling.edu/%7Efvallejo/ACCESS/CG320/103.zip

cheers,
-francis

[Victor B]

YESSS, a million and one thanks, you will forever be remembered for this generosity, they will sing songs in your name!


thanks

[Elwell]

OMGTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU!!!!!!
This is so awesome.

[Jason Ross]

Very nice. Thank you. But who is that white guy in the middle of all of those middle eastern people supposed to be?

[tensai]

Wow, wicked collection, cheers!

[Hexokinase]

If only every thread in the lounge were this amazing...

Thanks for sharing man :)

[Jason Snair]

Santa?

awwwhhhhh. thankyou

[Elwell]

You, uhm, wouldn't happen to have these... bigger, would you?

[Zirngibism]

Wow, I'll have to look into this guy, thanks for sharing!

And, not to look a gift horse in the mouth or anything, but I wouldn't mind losing the extra hard drive space to get some bigger images.

:-D

[jrr]

you sir, may be the greatest american hero.

[bhanu]

Thank you soooooo much.


You, uhm, wouldn't happen to have these... bigger, would you?

seconded..ahem ahem


Elwell- Just checked francis's blog and it does say here, that he might be able to provide hi res scans later on.


Thanks again.

[TASmith]

it's nice downloading a zip, and not having to click each image for once. Maybe I should do that some day when I've finished my collecting...

[Bill]

Very Very cool of you. Thanks.

[Taj]

You, uhm, wouldn't happen to have these... bigger, would you?

When I get back to my studio I'll elaborate on this post. I have a .zip of all the hi-res scans that I'll put up, in case anyone wants to print them out

In the meantime, heres my tiny collection i just started, a couple decent sized images.
http://www.mediafire.com/?mun3g2jdnan

Thanks a lot Francis. This will save me a fortune and time going out and finding and scanning all these.

[Portus]

Those are well amazing, thanks!

[tsujni]

me thanks you!

[Fvallejo]

Hey guys, you're too kind. Glad that you are enjoying the download!!!

Cornwell is one of my favorites. Now if only someone could put up a collection of Mead Schaeffer...???? **hint hint**

But I do have all of these in their 300 dpi glory. I barely managed to drop the smaller set into onto my server before I hopped on a plane. Like a few folks mentioned, when I get back I'll put up a link to download the hi-res imagery. It's going to be a humongously epic file, over 1 gig, but I should be able to do it..haha.

cheers,
-francis

[wassermelone]

Awesome!

[corspufo]

freaking brilliant, thank you so much!

[strych9ine]

Goddamn! Thanks man, this is kickass.

[Matt Dixon]

Fantastic! Thankyou, Francis!

[waranghira]

If you got the 300dpi's, then maybe its time to torrent them? XD

[Peter Coene]

OMFG!!! I was surfing through old threads and found this. I've been looking for Dean Cornwell stuff for forever! Holy cow thank you!

[Whitevillage]

Thanks for putting up, really great paintings to look in to. :)

[archipelago]

wicked

[AUG]

Thanks for taking the time to scan all of these gems! :rocker:

[Aly Fell]

Cheers Francis. Very much appreciated!

[talbot]

Yes, thank you for doing this. Downloading right now. Can't wait!

[kev ferrara]

Here's some Schaeffers...(first 4 pix) followed by some Saul Teppers (next 6) and Dan Contents (2) and a Loomis... Schaeffer, Tepper and Content were acolytes of Cornwell's and are often indistinguishable from him during the 1930s. Sundblom and Pruett Carter and Charles S. Chapman also fit in to that general aesthetic, though slightly less influeced by Cornwell's chunkiness.

Btw, in the 1940s Schaeffer's style changed away from Cornwell's influence with the waning of Depression era romanticism and the rise in reputation of social realist guys like Steve Dohanos, Andrew Wyeth, and Grant Wood (if you can call Wyeth social realist).

[kev ferrara]

Here's more cornwell, including an old news item about his mural work which I found online somewhere...

[kev ferrara]

Still more cornwell...

[kev ferrara]

Cornwell continued...

[SoufMeng]

Kev, thanx a bunch for sharing!

[kev ferrara]

Here's more Cornwell influenced Saul Tepper...

[kev ferrara]

Found more Mead Schaeffer in my archives... And some more Dean Cornwell...

EDIT: The colorful 3rd picture with the grandmother in the chair is by Charles S. Chapman, not Schaeffer. Sorry.

[Chris Bennett]

Thanks a million for these downloads fellas!
Its interesting looking at those vignette 'unfinished' pictures. I'm assuming that this is possibly how Cornwell worked technically: weaving together the picture like a tapestry or quilt. The weaker paintings seem to be the ones where he is not doing this but going for 'atmosphere' and not pushing the shape linkages across the surface so much.

Some painters paint more by the volumes (Rockwell), some by distances (Whistler) and some more by the inference created by shape interactions (Cornwell and Leyendecker).
Of course painters use all these ways of realising the world in combination - its just the degree to which one particular type of understanding takes precedence.

[kev ferrara]

More Cornwell... from 1921, 1927, 1923, and 1930 respectively... when he was at the top of his game...

[Grief]

kev is there any way you could upload your entire library of images to a server sometime?

[kev ferrara]

Alrighty... I've just scanned in the rest of Cornwell's illustration masterpiece, The Man of Galilee from 1927. I saw one of these in the original a while back (the first one just below of Jesus and the Old man with the boy in the foreground) at Illustration House in New York City and believe me when I tell you, it knocked me back, incredibly powerful work, very graphic, and pretty darn big for an illustration too (24 x 48 maybe?). Interestingly, rather than just use impasto white to bring light areas forward (as per classical oil painting technique), Cornwell placed a lot of dark figures in the immediate foreground and painted them with thick dark impastoed paint... and man did those figures pop! Like 3-D! The boy in the below illustration did that. Popped right out of the canvas.... which does not at all come through in the reproduction.

kev

[kev ferrara]

More Cornwell scans for all you appreciators out there and by way of thanks to Francis...

[Elwell]

Man, I love those early Cornwells so much. Especially the ones with that wistful model with the great neck.

[kev ferrara]

More scans... (sorry for the quality on some of these... but many of these were printed really small)

Elwell... I know exactly what you mean. Once he began doing murals he was lost. But his early stuff, prior to 1931... 99 percent gold. He was better influenced by Brangwyn before he went to study with him. I was lucky enough to see the first solo Cornwell show at Illustration House back in the 1990s... almost all of the pieces were 1920s and the originals are 140 times better than the reproductions.

My understanding is, that long necked model was his mistress. Shhhh.

[Chris Bennett]

Falling in love with the models is an occupational hazard.......Or perhaps she was his mistress first and then posed for him.
Anyway, thanks a million Kev for all these beautiful, beautiful pictures.

[kev ferrara]

More... (Incidentally, for those who like this era of Cornwell, you'll like Harvey Dunn and Frank Brangwyn too.)

Chris... :hatsoff:

[kev ferrara]

More Mead Schaeffers for Francis...

[Elwell]

My understanding is, that long necked model was his mistress. Shhhh.
Yeah, supposedly Cornwell was a bad, bad boy.

[kev ferrara]

Alright, I've exceeded my boredom threshold, so here's the last of it...

6 Dean Cornwells, 4 Mead Schaeffers for Francis, 1 Saul Tepper and 1 Dan Content...

Hope this made some of you happy... :)

[Stoat]

I totally enjoyed that. I'll enjoy it more when I sit down and look at them, instead of getting wadded up about downloading them all to a folder.

The sad thing is, reproduction methods being what they were in those days, they would mostly have looked pretty bad in print.

[kev ferrara]

Snowed in and bored over here...

So here's the article on Cornwell scanned from Ernest W. Watson's 40 illustrators and How They Work... from 1946...

[kev ferrara]

And a Mead Schaeffer from a 1928 McCalls...

[kev ferrara]

Here's 6 more Dean Cornwells, 2 Saul Teppers and the last one is a Dan Content

[Victor B]

Just wanted to add my thanks Kev, this has been great.

[Elwell]

Scans of Mead Schaeffer's illustrations for the Count of Monte Cristo at Golden Age Comic Book Stories (http://goldenagecomicbookstories.blogspot.com/2009/01/mead-schaeffer-1898-1980-count-of-monte.html). (From the original repros, so the quality isn't great, but still pretty awesome.)

[emily g]

Check out our previous Dean Cornwell thread (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=3003) to see lots of nice large images posted by Snowsfall. :)

[Fvallejo]

Hey Kev, sorry for not saying thanks earlier!!! This is great!!! I was in NY earlier this month and got to check out one of the first Mead's you posted in person!!! Do you have any more info on this Charles S. Chapman fellow? amazing piece.

I know, I know I have to put up the hi-res's. I'm in the middle of my thesis so as soon as I have a moment I'll put up a link.

All the best everyone!!!

[AUG]

Kev:

Thanks for sharing all of these wonderful images. Fortunately for the rest of us, you don't reside in a tropical climate.

[Zirngibism]

You know, there's a book on Dean Cornwell, here (http://www.amazon.com/Dean-Cornwell-Patricia-Janis-Broder/dp/1888054433/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233750440&sr=1-1). My city's library had it (pretty hefty price, so I just borrowed).

In my opinion, while it has some nice prints in it, way too much of the book is black and white to do him justice, either.

[panchosimpson]

Kev, Francis, you are gods among men!!!

Seriously, Cornwell's paintings from the 20s and 30s are my all-time favorite works...by anyone...ever...

Anyway, I take part in the spirit of generosity that runs through this thread. Here's a bunch of highres scans of cornwell's work
http://s39.photobucket.com/albums/e155/panchosimpson/cornwell/

and....wait for it.....

a bunch of high res pictures of fechin's work (whom Cornwell studied with in the evenings for awhile...Fechin also did a portrait of Mrs. Cornwell)

http://s39.photobucket.com/albums/e155/panchosimpson/fechin/


here's a small taste of both (cornwell on top, fechin on bottom)
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e155/panchosimpson/cornwell/cwell.jpg
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e155/panchosimpson/fechin/21.jpg

[Shelly Wan]

WHY!! this is amazing!!! Sometimes my love for Cornwell gets a little jaded, but nothing like your pictures spar the fire right back~

Thank you so much for these~ Both of You! Francis and Kev! saving saving saving~:lounge:

[Nickillus]

A simply outstanding resource and inspirational mega-fix.
Thanks so much guys. Woooooow!

Almost speechless with drooling.

Cheers,
Nick

[Nrx]

wow, truly thankyou. for the past few months i've been shadowed with the thought, how can '2d' art compare to sculpture or music as a art-form, it lacks the impact.

yeah, you just killed that thought.

much love guys

[Smarty]

thanks for this! awesome interview man on sidebar also

[corel]

I came across this (http://www.flickr.com/photos/leifpeng/sets/72157594384260435/) flickr collection of cornwell's works. most of them can be downloaded in pretty large size. They just kick in a lot of retro-inspiration into me :) Good stuff!


Corel.

[Baron Impossible]

Thanks to everyone whose posted images and links - amazing stuff

[kev ferrara]

One more gem... courtesy of Debbie Roberts at the Grand Bohemian Hotel Gallery...

[Riiroi]

Whoa awesome pictures! The link in the first post doesn't seem to be working. Does anybody have the original downloaded pictures from the link?

Thanks

[MatejaPetkovic]

Whoa awesome pictures! The link in the first post doesn't seem to be working. Does anybody have the original downloaded pictures from the link?

Thanks

same here

Thanks

M

[sabin boykinov]

Inspirational ! Thanks

[Ninjerk]

One more gem... courtesy of Debbie Roberts at the Grand Bohemian Hotel Gallery...

Is this the one in Orlando, or are there multiple Grand Bohemians?

[Felicia]

Heritage Auction Galleries has some great large scans of his work: Link (http://www.ha.com/common/search_items.php?txtSearch=dean+cornwell&ic=homepage_search&hdnSearch=true&optGlobalSearch=1)
They have all kinds of great stuff (excellent scans of paintings, sculptures drawings, etc) from a variety of artists.

[kev ferrara]

Yes, its the one in Orlando. I has asked for shots of the paintings last year.

Here's another one, and there should be more on the way... (I'm only posting one's that aren't in the monograph or widely available)

This one is also from captain blood around 1930 and three more circa 1918-1924 which are not from the Bohemian Hotel.

[xacarias]

many thanks to you! :)

[Ninjerk]

Wowow, I almost ended up working there last winter. I have to go there THIS week. As a side note, did Debbie Reynolds take the picture or do live in Central Florida?

[kev ferrara]

Because the world just needs more Dean Cornwell....

[kev ferrara]

Don't be silly, of course I got more!

Note: The second one of the girl is a digital "restoration" of the painting because only the top half of the painting currently exists, and I matched it in PS to the bottom half of a reproduction from its original publication.

[Wooly ESS]

I had never heard of Dean Cornwell until this moment! His work is wonderful. He begs comparison with America's other great 20th century illustrator, Norman Rockwell, and he comes off very well indeed.

here is some more Cornwellania:

http://www.americanartarchives.com/cornwell.htm

[kev ferrara]

Here's a few Dan Content illos in the Cornwell style... (which is adapted from the Dunn style, which is adapted from the Pyle style.)

[kev ferrara]

More Cornwell...

[kev ferrara]

More...

[kev ferrara]

2 more Cornwells...

[Wooly ESS]

There is something dark and sad about Cornwell's work. I'm left asking myself the question, "Are we really that bad?"

[Kielbasa]

Thanks for the Cornwell stuff Kev. By the way, James Gurney put together a short video with footage of Dean Cornwell painting!

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[dpaint]

From City of the Great King

[kev ferrara]

More Cornwell...

[kev ferrara]

More Cornwell...

[kev ferrara]

More...

[JeffX99]

Just have to share...

[kev ferrara]

This major Dean Cornwell picture from the early 1920s just sold at Heritage Auctions.

[dbclemons]

There was a segment on the PBS show "Antiques Roadshow" where some guy brought a Cornwell illustration in for appraisal. You can watch the segment here:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/archive/201004A45.html

[emily g]

Cool! Thanks for sharing!

[timdegro]

Ooooooooooooh O___________o

Looks like the link to the .zip file Francis posted in post #1 is somehow down though, anyone who can reupload this? You'll get my instant luvvvv <3

Thanks all for sharing! :O

[Syle]

I also would love to get this download! Thanks!

[Virg]

amazing stuff, I did not know much about him, seeing his paintings live would be great..
thanks for sharing

[Koto]

MediaFire link: http://www.mediafire.com/?l3w722c822ayd88

[timdegro]

Ooh wow.. Thanks!!! :O

[Nezumi Works]

I'll take some of that action, thanks!

[bhanu]

some necros are so awesome.... much thanks

[sone_one]

http://fineart.ha.com/ this site has LOADS of highres (long edge 3000 px) pictures (also studies and sketches). its quite inconvenient, because you have to register with quite a lot of personal data, but i dont regret it :).

[Dream_er]

Thanks for sharing

[kev ferrara]

More...

[andymania]

jaw is on the floor........................

I think Dean kicks N.C Wyeth's ass. In my opinion.

[dpaint]

jaw is on the floor........................

I think Dean kicks N.C Wyeth's ass. In my opinion.

Sacrilege - Not better, different...

[kev ferrara]

Sacrilege - Not better, different...

Agreed. Cornwell probably knew more about composition and aesthetics than any man who has ever lived. And could draw as good as anybody. Yet... Cornwell never created a successful action picture, which NC Wyeth could shake out of his sleeve. Nor did he have Wyeth's quality of poetry.

Also in terms of "great images" I don't think Cornwell ever created anything as classic as about 25 of Wyeth's best images (Just to name a few: Giant, Ore Wagon, Old Pew, Indian Hunter, Winter (indian), Arizona Nights cover, Treasure Island (3 or 4 of them are classics) War Clouds, It hung upon a thorn... 3 Deadly Notes, Train Robbery, Wizard leaving Castle (merlin?), etc, etc, etc.)

[kev ferrara]

Here's more cornwell...

[andymania]

Kev,

I think Dean was capable of depicting action; judging by some of these pics you posted no?

[kev ferrara]

I guess cornwell was okay at action. But it always seems constructed when he does it, rather than imagined in full force.

I don't think Cornwell empathized with ferocious, violent action. So I don't think he was able to portray it convincingly. This may be because, as a boy, he had vision problems, so wasn't much of a robust outdoor sports and games type of kid.

Here's Remington, Dunn, Wyeth, Von Schmidt, Frazetta, and Pyle for comparison...

[andymania]

Kev,

Yeah I see what you mean. Those pieces really show high action.

[andymania]

I always wondered how to tackle a war scene with multiple figures.....in terms of reference.

[foster]

Thank you all so much for posting all this over the years, and an especially big thanks to Kev Ferrara! Wow, what a resource!

Jon

[kev ferrara]

Hey Jon... you're very welcome.

;)

More Cornwell...

The first one is in the Cornwell monograph Dean of Illustrators, but my copy had some strange turquoise color on it that looked wrong to me. And since the painting is now selling on Heritage Auctions, and the correct color for the image is now available, I thought I'd post it up.

[kev ferrara]

More Mead Schaeffers...

The first one below appeared earlier in the thread, but that was from the printed version, this one is a shot from the original painting.

[kev ferrara]

More Saul Tepper

[kev ferrara]

more tepper

[bhanu]

Mr. Ferrara on a roll.
I like it :)

[keith eager]

This thread is so great! I stumbled across it looking for Saul Tepper images.

[dpaint]

Cornwell Medical Prints

[kev ferrara]

Moreness...

Cornwell and Schaeffer...