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2007 Hall of Fame Recipients
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David Grove
David Grove (b1940) developed an interesting variation of the Coles Phillips “fadeaway” technique by melding background and foreground colors and values. This demands much preliminary planning for the final result to look so spontaneous.
Grove was born in Washington, D.C. and attended the Syracuse University School of Art. In 1964, he took a year off to travel in Europe but stayedon in Paris for several years as freelancer. Following another stint in London with Artist Partners Ltd., he returned to the States—to San Francisco—and the west coast has been his home base since. There he works for a wide range of clients, such as Car and Driver, The Saturday Review, Bantam Books, Ballantine Books, Dell Publishing Company, Standard Oil, the U.S. Navy, the Atlantic Richfield Co., Western Airlines, NFL Properties, Inc., Pendleton Woolen Mills, CBS, the Bank of America and Walt Disney Productions. Grove has also taught at the Academy of Arts College in San Francisco and is a member of both the San Francisco and New York Society of Illustrators and the Graphic Artists Guild.
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Gary Kelley
Gary Kelly (b1945) is a Midwesterner, born in Algana, Iowa. He obtained is B.A. in art from the University of Northern Iowa and has continued to maintain his studio in Iowa. Yet his work has had a major national and international impact, winning awards in New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Italy and Paris. To date, he has won 23 medals from the Society of Illustrators as well as the distinguished Hamilton King Award.
Beginning with his first commission from Better Homes and Gardens in 1970, he has added a large roster of clients, including Rolling Stone, Playboy, Atlantic Monthly, Time, Entertainment Weekly, and Los Angeles magazine, as well as poster designs and many advertising assignments. As Kelley’s style has evolved, he has incorporated many influences, notably the work of Tamara de Lempicka and Edwin Dickinson, but made them his own. His great strength is in design. His concepts are powerfully focused and abetted by dramatic use of color. Kelley is a popular teacher and has involved with the Syracuse University graduate art program. He also taught at the Illustration Academy in Kansas City and at the Hartford Art School in Connecticut.
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Edward Windsor Kemble
Edward Windsor Kemble (1861–1933) was a selftaught artist whose work reveals a strong sense of humor and an acute obervation of character. His outlook was similar to that of A.B. Frost, and like Frost, he illustrated many of the Uncle Remus stories by Joel Chandler Harris. Kemble illustrated several other famous books, including Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, and Puddin’ Head Wilson, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and Washington Irving’s Knickerbocker History of New York. His humor made him an effective political cartoonist as well. He had special rapport with African-American characters, and drew them alternatively with great empathy or with the most outrageous of stereotypes.
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Russell Patterson
Russell Patterson (1896–1977) was very influential as an illustrator (in the ‘twenties his flappers were as definitive as those of John Held Junior).
He studied architecture briefly at McGill University in Canada and later at the Chicago Art Institute and the Academy of Fine Arts. His early work for department stores like Carson, Pirie, Scott & Company and Marshall Field was noted for his interior designs.
A year of painting landscapes in France followed. When he returned to America in 1921 the Jazz Age was just beginning. Patterson began to draw sexy coeds and they were an immediate success when they appeared in College Humor. With his incorporation of their raccoon coats and flapping, unbuckled galoshes in his drawings, Patterson became a pacemaker in setting styles. He had a special flair for clothes, and his drawings were followed for what was right to wear.
Patterson spent the 1930s in Hollywood doing set and costume design for the movies, mostly elaborate musicals similar to his Broadway shows. In the late ’thirties, he returned to New York to the department store field. He designed coate for I. J. Fox, Christmas toy windows for Macy’s and resumed his advertising illustrations.
During World War II he designed the Women’s Army Corps uniforms, train interior, he drew a comic strip and also designed hotel lobbies and restaurant interiorsis advertising illustrations. During World War II he designed the Women’s Army Corps uniforms, train interior, he drew a comic strip and also designed hotel lobbies and restaurant interiors.
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George Stavrinos
George Stavrinos (1948–1990) created artwork that was characterized by its strong draftmanship, and as a fashion artist, he created an arresting new look that set the pace for his contemporaries and still continues to be an influence.
Born in Somerville, Massachusetts, he was a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and in 1969 was granted a year’s independent study in Rome. Upon his return, he first worked with the Push Pin Studios and soon had work commissioned by Bergdorf Goodman, the New York City Opera, The New York Times and magazines such as Redbook, Gentleman’s Quarterly and Cosmopolitan. Stavrinos concurrently exhibited in galleries in Manhattan, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Providence, Chicago, London, Paris and Tokyo. He also taught at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York in he 1980s, and at Tokyo’s Designers Gakium College in 1984.
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Hamilton King Award, 2007
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Ted Lewin
Ted Lewin grew up in an old frame house in Buffalo with a lion, an iguana, a chimpanzee and an assortment of more conventional pets. His mother convinced him to give it to the Buffalo Zoo...
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2005 Arthur William Brown Achievement Award
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Warren Rogers
Warren Rogers wore many hats at the Society. He chaired the Annual exhibition twice, he served as President and chaired the Welfare Committee for over 10 years. He was a successful Art Director at Compton Advertising and served in the Air Corps in WWII. He was always a thoughtful and insightful voice on the Board of Directors
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