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Stoops was born in rural Idaho, which would be appropriate for such a prolific illustrator of Western American images. His art reflects the influences of the rugged male icons of the American West. His mentors were almost entirely men who had lived the during the great Western Expansion and the Indian Wars. His father came to Utah from Pennsylvania as a clergyman of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints or Mormon Church. His mother was from Ohio. The family resided in Logan City, Utah. In 1905, Stoops graduated from Utah State College, shortly before the death of his father. Stoops would find work illustrating for local newspapers, but in 1910, he became a staff artist for the San Francisco Chronicle. He later found work with the San Francisco Examiner. In 1914, Stoops moved to Chicago to study at the Art Institute, which he attended while working as a staff artist for The Chicago Tribune. In WWI, Stoops would serve in France with the 6th Field Artillery of the First Army Division as a first lieutenant. He would later sign art that was reflective of his combat experience with the names "Jeremy Cannon" and "Raymond Sisley." He was known by his friends for being an imposing figure of a man who often expressed his friendship with heartfelt bear hugs. Following the war, Stoops settled in New York City, where he married Elise Borough (b.1891). Stoops illustrated stories for Cosmopolitan, Colliers, Ladies' Home Journal, McCall's and Liberty magazines throughout the 1920s. At that time, he received his first cover commissions from The American Legion Magazine. In 1935, the popular pulp magazine Blue Book, hired Stoops to create a series of cover-art. He had been commissioned for a 48-Cover series that would commemorate each of the states at the time, but died before he was able to finish the series. During WWII, Stoops created images for the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) for posters promoting scrap-metal drives for the War Effort. Following a long period of deteriorating health, Stoops died at his Greenwich Village studio in New York at the age of 60. His style is reflected in the works of many subsequent pulp artists, particularly AL Ross and HW Scott. Contact
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