The American vintage artist and illustrator Edna Crompton

Edna Crompton (1882-1952) was an American artist and illustrator from the “Golden Age of illustration“. She painted with oil on canvas, portraits of women. Mainly in the 1920s, her oil paintings were used as covers in American magazines like The Saturday Evening Post, Redbook magazine, The modern Priscilla and Metropolitan. Besides, she also created art calendars for the Osborne Calendar Company.

Graceful oil portrait paintings realised by Edna Crompton :

Sourceshttp://www.atticpaper.com/ ; https://americangallery.wordpress.com/ and http://pinterest.com/ ; http://grapefruitmoongallery.com/22174 ; https://www.etsy.com/ ; http://www.redbookmag.com/ ; https://www.abebooks.com/ ; http://www.allposters.com/ ; http://www.allposters.com/ ; https://www.youtube.com/ and http://www.illustration-art-solutions.com/

3 responses to “The American vintage artist and illustrator Edna Crompton”

  1. Craig Avatar
    Craig

    Both my grandmothers were models for Edna Crompton. My father’s mother, Viola, 1917-1921
    My mother’s mother, Iris, 1921-27. A third of those shown here are of them.

  2. Mary Grace McGeehan Avatar

    Thanks for this interesting post! I’m writing about Edna Crompton for my blog (mylife100yearsago.com) and would love to learn more about her if you have more information.

    1. Craig Avatar
      Craig

      Sorry Mary Grace, I didn’t see this until just now. I now will get notified it you respond. Craig

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