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From Saint Paul, Minnesota, Edward Brewer was a commercial artist and portrait painter. 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".
He studied in New York at the Art Students League with Kenyon Cox, Walter Appleton Clark, Frank DuMond, and John Twachtmann, and with Nicholas Brewer.
In the 1930s, Brewer persuaded the Northern Pacific Railr (showing 500 of 910 characters). |
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