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He was born in Louisville, Kentucky. As a child, he was captivated by the industrial subjects his father, Charles L. Cornwell, drew as a civil engineer. Cornwell’s professional career began as a cartoonist for the Louisville Herald. He soon departed for Chicago, where he was a student at the Art Institute and went to work for the Chicago Tribune. He moved to New York City in 1915, and studied at the Art Students League of New York under Harvey Dunn. He eventually he traveled to London as an apprentice to Frank Brangwyn studying mural painting. Cornwell was a sought after illustrator, whose paintings could be found in Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Harper's Bazaar, and Redbook magazines. His illustrations embodied the work of several authors, including Ernest Hemingway, Pearl S. Buck, Lloyd Douglas, Edna Ferber, W. Somerset Maugham and Owen Wister. His murals adorn the Los Angeles Public Library, the Lincoln Memorial Shrine in Redlands, California, the former Eastern Airlines Building in Rockefeller Plaza, the U.S. Post Office in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, the Warwick New York Hotel in New York City, and in Tennessee the Davison County Courthouse and Sevier State Office Building. Cornwell taught and lectured at the Art Students League in New York and served as president of the Society of Illustrators from 1922 to 1926 where was elected to its Hall of Fame in 1959. He died in New York City a year later. Contact
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