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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| | Phillips Dwight Rader was born in Maine in 1890. Rader studied at the San Francisco Institute of Art in 1908-09. He was a cartoonist-writer for local newspapers in 1910-11 and continued for Hearst papers in NYC until 1914. Upon entering the Air Corps during WWI, he distinguished himself as an air ace. His legs were broken in an airplane collision in 1916 and another air crash took his life in Buffalo, NY on June 6, 1918. | Source:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
City Directory; SF Examiner, 6-11-1918 (obit). | | Nearly 20,000 biographies can be found in Artists in California 1786-1940 by Edan Hughes and is available for sale ($150). For a full book description and order information please click here. |
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