by Bradshaw Crandell (American, 1896-1966)
While Bradshaw Crandell’s greatest satisfaction as an artist came as a result of his later portraiture of governors and heads of state, it was as a commercial artist that he achieved his greatest recognition. For a dozen years Crandell was the cover artist for Cosmopolitan Magazine, illustrating Hollywood’s most attractive and popular movie stars. American Beauty was published in 1940, one of the hundreds of covers he painted for Comopolitan, Ladies Home Journal, and other publications.
