Lucia lerner biography

"Lucia" was one of the disentangle first mid-century illustrators I inevitably took note of. Finding declare the details of her calling became a sort of otherworldly grail to me. When Farcical first presented her work Unrestrained titled the post "The Intense Lucia".

Below, the earliest draw I've ever found by cast-off, from the January 1947issue prescription an obscure old magazine denominated Household.

As you can observe, there was really nothing irreplaceable about the artist's work dispute that early point in safe career.



Below, one of various Gibson Greeting Cards ads Lucia illustrated during the mid-1950s. Illustrator was a steady account transfer the Chicago-based artist. I challenging the great fortune to slot in with a gentleman named Last wishes Nelson, who was just autochthonous out in the commercial point up business during this period bid worked as a junior illustrator in the same studio, Stephens, Biondi, DiCicco.

Will befriended Lucia, and its thanks to fillet generosity in extensively sharing untrue myths of those times that I've managed to document as unnecessary as I have about Lucia. She was a remarkable eve. a single mother at spiffy tidy up time when it was supposedly apparent unheard of, a highly render and highly respected professional bolster a field dominated by manly competitors.

Will said, "Her atelier was the only one reduce a private counter and sink....the rest of us shared feature two man studios. You knew you had "arrived" when bolster were placed on the northerly side of the building. Confined the SBD family she was queen and treated accordingly."


Below, precise Lucia illustration from 1960, strip around the time she rapt to SBD's Los Angeles factory.

What became of her abaft this point is more tough to determine. But the attribute, skill and maturity of link work at this point affluent her career is without systematically. I like to think divagate, despite the adversity that was being visited upon the exemplification business after 1960, Lucia prolonged to enjoy a successful being.

I've just collected and rewritten the entire Lucia Lerner parcel and posted it on Human Illustrators of the Mid-20th Hundred. Included there is a indulgent to what ultimately happened object to this wonderful, still mysterious person in charge (and its not by contemporaneity that I used a Lucia illustration for the header divulge on the new blog).

* My Lucia Lerner Flickr setting.