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Andrew Loomis

Andrew (William) Loomis (1892 - 1959) was active/lived in Illinois, California.  Andrew Loomis is known for Figure, genre, portrait, illustration.

(William) Andrew Loomis was an illustrator, teacher and creator of "how-to-do-books" on drawing and painting for illustrators, like Viking Press publications Fun with a Pencil, 1939, Figure Drawing for All It's Worth, 1943, and Creative Illustration, 1947.  In 1951, Successful Drawing was published (it re-appeared in 1961 as Three-Dimensional Drawing).  Drawing the Head and Hands was published in 1956. They were all immensely successful.  Loomis' last book, Eye of the Painter and Elements of Beauty, posthumously published in 1961 (he died in 1959), unlike his earlier instruction books, is filled with examples of fine art, but little of his own work.
Loomis was born in 1892 in Syracuse, New York, growing up in Zanesville, Ohio.

In 1911, he studied with Frank Vincent Dumond and George Bridgman at the Art Students League, New York City, as well as in 1915 at the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois.  Though alwa   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2306 characters.]  Artist bio

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