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from Auction House Records.
Advertisement: Woman in yellow cape and skirt with veiled black hat
Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Carl Erickson dominated the field of fashion illustration for over thirty-five years. He was born in Joliet, Illinois. His formal art training was limited to two years at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. This was followed by work for Marshall Field, Lord & Thomas, and other advertising accounts in Chicago until 1914, when he moved to New York City.
In New York, he continued doing advertising illustration, and did his first fashion drawings for the Dry Goods Economist. In 1920, Eric made his initial trip to Paris where he felt a strong rapport, and for the next twenty years it was his second home. During that period, he illustrated for French publications, and did society portraits. Beginning in 1923, be became a staff illustrator for Vogue magazine. In 1940, he returned to America, continuing his work for Conde Nast, and began illustrating for American, rather than French, advertisers.
Eric was the personification of his elegant world; he wore a bowler and carried a walking stick, and directly participated in the fashionable life of the international set. His drawings and paintings are authentic because he knew his subjects and their world, and his taste and beautiful draftsmanship have proved to be of lasting interest.
The Brooklyn Museum held a retrospective show of his drawings in 1959 shortly after his death.
(Information on the biography above is based on writings from the book, "The Illustrator In America, 1880-1980," A Century of Illustration, by Walt and Roger Reed.)
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