#lucia larner

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[*] Lucia Larner, illustratrice statunitense (anni '50)

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A Lucky Catch

Redbook: August 1956 - Illustration by Lucia Larner

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Advertisement for Gibson Easter greeting cards (1951). Artwork by Lucia Larner.

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Hansen Gloves advertisement, 1957 | illustration Lucia Larner

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"A Lucky Catch" Redbook, August 1956 Cover by Lucia Larner

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Female Illustrators of the 20th Century: Lucia Larner

Back when I first became interested in illustration from the mid-20th century, I found this piece below, signed "Lucia". I thought it was so great, I immediately sent it out to the Today's Inspiration group. I didn't know much about illustrators from the '50s back then, but I knew enough to catagorize this Lucia with the likes of Coby Whitmore, Joe Bowler, and Joe De Mers.

Lucia was clearly adept at painting georgous women in romantic settings. His work had a lively roughness, a sketchiness - that textural quality - that was emerging during the mid-fifties among the top boy/girl illustrators, especially those at the Cooper studio in New York.

I say "his" because at that time I presumed only male illustrators could have done work in this sort of style. Shows you how very little I knew at the time!

But with no listing in "Illustrator in America" and with my most knowledgeable contacts unable to shed any light on who "he" was, Lucia remained just a signature on the occassional magazine ad I came across. Lucia's accounts included Gibson greeting cards, Orlon textiles, and the Santa Fe rail line. For the longest time I thought Lucia was strictly an advertising illustrator... then I discovered pieces like this one below, proving that the artist had also done editorial work.

I found pieces in Collier's, American, and Better Living, always signed ( or even just credited ) with that single name: Lucia.

Then, in 2006, an email arrived out of the blue: "I have info about Lucia for you..."

To be continued at femaleillustrators.blogspot.com

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Lucia Larner, 1950's.

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Illustration by Lucia Larner

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