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George E Hughes

George E. Hughes (1907 - 1990) was active/lived in Vermont, New York.  George Hughes is known for Magazine illustration, cover art.

George Hughes
1907-1990

George Hughes was born in 1907 in New York City. Like many other Saturday Evening Post artists, he bypassed a formal college education and studied art and mechanical drawing for three years in New York's Art Students League* and the National Academy of Design*. Once out of school, he worked as a freelance fashion illustrator. His work often appeared in such bastions of high style as Vanity Fair and House and Garden magazine.

In 1936, Hughes was offered a position in Detroit, Michigan as a Mechanical Designer for an automobile manufacturer. Unhappy with his life there and longing for a chance to illustrate for a major magazine in the East, he packed his belongings and returned home to New York. Hughes married, but unfortunately the marriage was short lived.

In New York, his career as a commercial artist would begin to take flight as he struggled to fine-tune his work. Hughes eventually married again and started a famil   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6034 characters.]  Artist bio

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