Albert Dorne

Albert Dorne (February 7, 1906 - December 15, 1965) was an American Illustrator
Albert Dorne
and entrepreneur, and was co-founder of correspondence schools for aspiring artists,
photographers, and writers. Dorne was co-founder of the Code of Ethics and Fair
[1]
Practices of the Profession of Commercial Art and Illustration.

Contents
Biography
Awards
References
General references
Inline citations
Albert Dorne (1963)
External links
Born February 7, 1906
New York City, U.S.

Biography Died December 15, 1965

(aged 59)
Dorne was born in the slums of New York City's East Side, and had a troubled University Hospital,
childhood plagued with tuberculosis and heart problems.[2] He would cut classes to New York City
study art in the museums, eventually quitting school altogether to support his family.
Nationality American
After numerous jobs such as managing a newsstand and acting as an office boy,[1] as
well as a short professional boxing career, Dorne began working in advertising.[2]
Known for illustration

He apprenticed as a letterer with then-letterer and future prominent illustrator Saul Tepper before beginning a five-year stint at the
commercial art studio of Alexander Rice.[2] He left the studio to begin a freelance career and soon his illustrations started appearing
in such magazines as Life, Collier's, and The Saturday Evening Post, and by 1943 was featured on the cover of American Artist
magazine, recognized as "one of the best and highest paid in the field of advertising illustration."[2] He frequently worked for the
Johnstone and Cushingadvertising agency.

Dorne was president of the New York Society of Illustrators in 1947–48. In 1948 he conceived the idea of a correspondence school
for art, and recruited eleven other well-known artists and illustrators affiliated with the Society of Illustrators, including Norman
Rockwell, to found the Famous Artists School. In 1961 he helped found the Famous Photographers School and the Famous Writers
School, based on similar principles. All three schools were based in Westport, Connecticut, and by 1963 boasted more than 50,000
[1]
students in the U.S. and 54 foreign countries, with a gross income of $10 million.

Dorne influenced the work of artists includingJohn Buscema[3] Al Avison,[4] and Arthur Suydam.[5]

In 1956, Dorne donated his pictorial resource file of over 500,000 items to the Westport Public Library. The collection is still in use
[6]
today. In 1964, the University of BridgeportDepartment of Art endowed the Albert Dorne Professorship in Drawing.

Awards
1953: New York Art Directors Club — Gold Medal for "distinguished career"
1958: Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts,Adelphi College
1963: Horatio Alger Award for Achievement, American Schools and Colleges Association, Inc.
References

General references
Reed, Walt. The Illustrator in America - 1900-1966(Reinhold Publishing Company, New York, 1966).
Albert Dorne, Master Illustrator, Auad Publishing, 2013.

Inline citations
1. Dorne entry (http://www.askart.com/askart/d/albert_dorne/albert_dorne.aspx), AskART.com. Accessed June 19,
2015.
2. Watson, E.W. (May 1943). "Albert Dorne,"American Artist, vol. 7, #5, p. 13.
3. Spurlock, David J.; Buscema, John (2001).John Buscema Sketchbook. New Jersey: Vanguard Productions. pp. 60–
61. ISBN 1-887591-18-4, p. 27.
4. Alfred Avison (http://www.askart.com/askart/artist.aspx?artist=134759) at Ask Art - The American Artists Bluebook.
Archived (https://web.archive.org/web/20051108211850/http://www .askart.com/askart/a/alfred_%28al%29_avison/alf
red_%28al%29_avison.aspx)November 8, 2005, at theWayback Machine..
5. Caragonne, George (Ed.; November/December 1994). "Suydam",Penthouse Comix #4, pp. 85, 86 and 89.
6. Almind, Gert J. Albert Dorne biography(http://www.juke-box.dk/gert-dorne.htm), Juke-Box.dk. Retrieved July 29,
2006.

External links
Albert Dorne posters, hosted by the University of North Texas Libraries Digital Collections
Al Dorne artwork, American Art Archives website

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