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Edward Victor Brewer

Edward Victor Brewer (1883 - 1971) was active/lived in Minnesota, New York.  Edward Brewer is known for Commercial illustration, portrait and landscape painting.

From Saint Paul, Minnesota, Edward Brewer was a commercial artist, muralist and portrait painter whose style is sometimes compared to that of Norman Rockwell. For 15 years beginning in 1911, he was employed by Emery Maples Company to do weekly ads for their major client, Cream of Wheat, and for this assignment, he created the character "Rastus", making a three dimensional portrait bust, from which he did various angle facial depictions. In total, he is credited with 102 ads for Cream of Wheat.

Brewer grew up in Saint Paul in a family of six boys whose parents were Rose Koempel Brewer and his father was Nicholas Brewer, a noted portrait painter. Edward's brother, Adrian became a landscape painter. 

Prior to working on the Cream of Wheat ads, Edward had commercial art clients including Field and Stream magazine and Abercrombie & Fitch. Starting in the 1940s, after working for Cream of Wheat, Brewer was commissioned by the Jensen Printing Company of Minneapo   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1769 characters.]  Artist bio

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