Another one of the Christmas Card Artists
I highlighted after Christmas was Samuel Loren Schmucker.
For almost 10 years Samuel created
postcards for the John Winsch Company and the Detroit Publishing Company, two
of the largest postcard Publishers in America.
When the postcard craze slowed down he went on to paint designs for
candy boxes and candy wrappers. He also did pen and ink sketches for the Philadelphia
Daily Press fashion plates.
Samuel studied drawing and painting the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and at the Howard Pyle Institute at
Drexel where he met fellow classmate Maxfield Parrish.
His wife Katherine was the model for most
of his postcard work.
But what is most amazing is that Samuel contracted Polio
as a small child and it left his right arm and hand partially paralyzed. He
learned to grip a brush and use his shoulder and back to move his hand around
to paint and draw.
This week enjoy the art of Samuel Loren
Schmucker.
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