Albert Dorne

Albert Dorne (February 7, 1906 - December 15, 1965) was an American Illustrator.

He was born in the slums of New York City's East Side, and had a troubled childhood plagued with tuberculosis and heart problems.[1] He would cut classes to study art in the museums, eventually quitting school altogether to support his family. After numerous jobs such as managing a news stand and acting as an office boy,[2] as well as a short professional boxing career, he began working in advertising.[3]

He apprenticed as a letterer with then-letterer and future prominent illustrator Saul Tepper before beginning a five-year stint at the commercial art studio of Alexander Rice.[3] He left the studio to begin a freelance career and soon his illustrations started appearing in such magazines as Life, Collier's and The Saturday Evening Post and by 1943 was featured on the cover of 'American Artist' magazine, recognized as 'one of the best and highest paid in the field of advertising illustration.'[3]

In 1948 Dorne conceived the idea of a correspondence school for art, and recruited eleven other well-known artists and illustrators, including Norman Rockwell, to found the Famous Artists School.

In 1956, Dorne donated his pictorial resource file of over 500,000 items to the Westport Public Library. The collection is still in use today.

REFERENCES

Albert Dorne biography - retrieved July 29, 2006

The Illustrator in America - 1900-1966, Reed, Walt, Reinhold Publishing Company, New York, 1966.