Edgar Franklin Wittmack

Wittmack illustrated a 1916 Scientific American cover with a Zeppelin spy basket.

Edgar Franklin Wittmack (1894–1956) was an illustrator and cover artist for many of the most popular magazines of the 1920s and 1930s.[1][2] His covers, just as the artwork of his contemporary, Norman Rockwell, were usually created as oil paintings. Where Rockwell specialized in the humorous aspects of small-town life, Wittmack dealt mainly with male-oriented interests. He often painted heroic or action-type figures for the Saturday Evening Post,[1][2] American Boy,[1][2] Outdoor Life[3] as well as the "quality" pulp magazines such as Adventure [4] and Short Stories. [5]

However, he is probably most known for the covers he created for Popular Science. His "retro-futuristic" style was used during the depression to artistically convert the ideas of inventive Americans into unique visual expressions of potential reality.

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  1. ^ a b c William G. Contento. "Artists - WITTMACK, EDGAR FRANKLIN". The FictionMags Index. Archived from the original on 2010-01-24. Retrieved 2010-01-09.
  2. ^ a b c William G. Contento. "Artists - WITTMACK, EDGAR FRANKLIN (continued)". The FictionMags Index. Archived from the original on 2010-04-13. Retrieved 2010-01-09.
  3. ^ Crinkley Bottom Books. "Outdoor Life Magazine". Retrieved 2010-01-09.
  4. ^ Ashley,Mike "Adventure", in Cult Magazines: A to Z edited by Earl Kemp and Luis Ortiz. NonStop Press, 2009 (pp. 9-12).
  5. ^ Robinson, Frank M., and Davidson, Lawrence. Pulp Culture - The Art of Fiction Magazines. Collectors Press, 2007. ISBN 1-933112-30-1 (p.42).
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