‘Cecil Calvert Beall...whose works were regularly featured in Saturday Evening Post and Collier's. Beall's magazine illustrations were done in watercolor, a medium in which he excelled. His art is crisp, bold, and dramatically composed, emphasizing both starkly iconic imagery and dramatically transparent movement, often in the same image. His images of beautiful women and elegant men in action-charged contemporary life were published in both black-and-white and color, always deftly exploiting the tonal range of a given reproduction technology. In 1936, Beall painted a portrait of President Roosevelt for the cover of Collier’s, one of his major clients, after which he was appointed art director for the National Democratic Committee. …’
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#THISWEEK in 1948
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‘This was a different woman he held in his arms – a woman who had disguised herself, the hidden, the secret Camille’
#Illustration by C. C. Beall (1892-1967) for ➡️
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