The Famous Artists School's Advanced Program which started in 1948 consisted of eleven separate volumes/binders each written and illustrated by a different faculty member (John Atherton, Austin Briggs, Stevan Dohanos, Robert Fawcett, Peter Helck, Fred Ludekens, Al Parker, Norman Rockwell, Ben Stahl, Harold Von Schmidt, Jon Whitcomb). It only lasted for a few years before school president Albert Dorne cancelled the program due to low enrollment and had all the material incinerated (according to an instructor at the school at the time) resulting in the scarcity of these volumes.

This volume is Jon Whitcomb's contribution to the Famous Artists School's Advanced Program. An entire course (9 lessons in 142 pages) written & illustrated entirely by Whitcomb. Whitcomb was best known for his glamorous covers and illustrations and his idealized renderings of men & women. He was also co-founder of the influential Cooper Studio in New York. This course is the only instance when Whitcomb put in print his philosophy and approach to illustration.

Contents:

• Meet Jon Whitcomb - a 10-page profile of the artist
• Working Procedure
• The Face
• Men & Women
• Fashion
• Love Scenes
• Photography
• Techniques
• Story Illustration
• Color and Covers

As with all our copies of the Famous Artists Courses, we have verified the contents and completeness of this volume. The 20-page Lesson 2 is missing, but we have added facsimiles of the missing pages to make this copy complete. All the other lessons are complete including the color plate.

The student's name engraved in gold on the cover is Nixon B. Galloway, who became a listed aviation artist and illustrator.