Valentine's Day designs for:
* greeting cards
* postcards
* magazine covers
* other ephemera
None concentrated more on the
'Valentine's Day theme' than
did the gifted talent,
Charles Twelvetrees.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
He was a shadowy figure.
While not one of the famous
illustrators of his day,
he was good enough to earn
his livelihood from his pen.
So as not to confuse -
the 'C. Twelvetrees'
we are discussing the
Son of an equally famous
Father who was also an artist.
Interestingly, no one knows
which of the Twelvetrees
gentlemen was the 'postcard
artist' and which was the
'illustrator'.
In all probability,
* 'Charles H.' did the postcards
and
* 'Charles R.' the magazine and
greeting card assignments.
His Father was Charles H. Twelvetrees.
His Mother - little info is known
about her - died in 1902.
~~~
As a struggling freelance artist,
he was drawn to the low-paying world
of postcard illustrating.
'C. Twelvetrees' or 'C.T.' are the
two signatures seen on all the
postcards - though, many of the art
pieces are simply unsigned.
He worked for many NYC publishers,
including:
* Bergman
* National Art
* Edward Gross Company
* Ullman
Children were Twelvetrees' forte.
Almost everything he did had
children featured. When he did the
covers for "The Home Magazine," a
publication in the 1930s from F.W.
Woolworth's, these same children's
images kept appearing.
He also did artistic publication
covers and a cartoon series under
the title of:
* "The Twelvetrees Kiddies"
with the byline:
* "C. H. Twelvetrees"
Twelvetrees did a comic strip,
"Johnny Quack,"
for the newspaper,
NEW YORK HERALD SUNDAY.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Twelvetrees died at the
Hotel Le Marquis, in NYC
where he kept rooms
as his personal dwelling.
* greeting cards
* postcards
* magazine covers
* other ephemera
None concentrated more on the
'Valentine's Day theme' than
did the gifted talent,
Charles Twelvetrees.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
He was a shadowy figure.
While not one of the famous
illustrators of his day,
he was good enough to earn
his livelihood from his pen.
So as not to confuse -
the 'C. Twelvetrees'
we are discussing the
Son of an equally famous
Father who was also an artist.
Interestingly, no one knows
which of the Twelvetrees
gentlemen was the 'postcard
artist' and which was the
'illustrator'.
In all probability,
* 'Charles H.' did the postcards
and
* 'Charles R.' the magazine and
greeting card assignments.
His Father was Charles H. Twelvetrees.
His Mother - little info is known
about her - died in 1902.
~~~
As a struggling freelance artist,
he was drawn to the low-paying world
of postcard illustrating.
'C. Twelvetrees' or 'C.T.' are the
two signatures seen on all the
postcards - though, many of the art
pieces are simply unsigned.
He worked for many NYC publishers,
including:
* Bergman
* National Art
* Edward Gross Company
* Ullman
Children were Twelvetrees' forte.
Almost everything he did had
children featured. When he did the
covers for "The Home Magazine," a
publication in the 1930s from F.W.
Woolworth's, these same children's
images kept appearing.
He also did artistic publication
covers and a cartoon series under
the title of:
* "The Twelvetrees Kiddies"
with the byline:
* "C. H. Twelvetrees"
Twelvetrees did a comic strip,
"Johnny Quack,"
for the newspaper,
NEW YORK HERALD SUNDAY.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Twelvetrees died at the
Hotel Le Marquis, in NYC
where he kept rooms
as his personal dwelling.
Valentine's Day designs for:
* greeting cards
* postcards
* magazine covers
* other ephemera
None concentrated more on the
'Valentine's Day theme' than
did the gifted talent,
Charles Twelvetrees.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
He was a shadowy figure.
While not one of the famous
illustrators of his day,
he was good enough to earn
his livelihood from his pen.
So as not to confuse -
the 'C. Twelvetrees'
we are discussing the
Son of an equally famous
Father who was also an artist.
Interestingly, no one knows
which of the Twelvetrees
gentlemen was the 'postcard
artist' and which was the
'illustrator'.
In all probability,
* 'Charles H.' did the postcards
and
* 'Charles R.' the magazine and
greeting card assignments.
His Father was Charles H. Twelvetrees.
His Mother - little info is known
about her - died in 1902.
~~~
As a struggling freelance artist,
he was drawn to the low-paying world
of postcard illustrating.
'C. Twelvetrees' or 'C.T.' are the
two signatures seen on all the
postcards - though, many of the art
pieces are simply unsigned.
He worked for many NYC publishers,
including:
* Bergman
* National Art
* Edward Gross Company
* Ullman
Children were Twelvetrees' forte.
Almost everything he did had
children featured. When he did the
covers for "The Home Magazine," a
publication in the 1930s from F.W.
Woolworth's, these same children's
images kept appearing.
He also did artistic publication
covers and a cartoon series under
the title of:
* "The Twelvetrees Kiddies"
with the byline:
* "C. H. Twelvetrees"
Twelvetrees did a comic strip,
"Johnny Quack,"
for the newspaper,
NEW YORK HERALD SUNDAY.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Twelvetrees died at the
Hotel Le Marquis, in NYC
where he kept rooms
as his personal dwelling.
* greeting cards
* postcards
* magazine covers
* other ephemera
None concentrated more on the
'Valentine's Day theme' than
did the gifted talent,
Charles Twelvetrees.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
He was a shadowy figure.
While not one of the famous
illustrators of his day,
he was good enough to earn
his livelihood from his pen.
So as not to confuse -
the 'C. Twelvetrees'
we are discussing the
Son of an equally famous
Father who was also an artist.
Interestingly, no one knows
which of the Twelvetrees
gentlemen was the 'postcard
artist' and which was the
'illustrator'.
In all probability,
* 'Charles H.' did the postcards
and
* 'Charles R.' the magazine and
greeting card assignments.
His Father was Charles H. Twelvetrees.
His Mother - little info is known
about her - died in 1902.
~~~
As a struggling freelance artist,
he was drawn to the low-paying world
of postcard illustrating.
'C. Twelvetrees' or 'C.T.' are the
two signatures seen on all the
postcards - though, many of the art
pieces are simply unsigned.
He worked for many NYC publishers,
including:
* Bergman
* National Art
* Edward Gross Company
* Ullman
Children were Twelvetrees' forte.
Almost everything he did had
children featured. When he did the
covers for "The Home Magazine," a
publication in the 1930s from F.W.
Woolworth's, these same children's
images kept appearing.
He also did artistic publication
covers and a cartoon series under
the title of:
* "The Twelvetrees Kiddies"
with the byline:
* "C. H. Twelvetrees"
Twelvetrees did a comic strip,
"Johnny Quack,"
for the newspaper,
NEW YORK HERALD SUNDAY.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Twelvetrees died at the
Hotel Le Marquis, in NYC
where he kept rooms
as his personal dwelling.
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