Rea Irvin: Difference between revisions

==Early career==

Born in [[San Francisco]], he studied at the [[Mark Hopkins Art Institute]] for six months, started his career as an unpaid cartoonist for ''[[The San Francisco Examiner]]''.<ref name=autogenerated2>[http://www.tomfolio.com/autographimg.asp?sigid=297&ret=AGIni Rea Irvin, Author Autograph Sample, Book List Link, Search Books Available] ''TomFolio.com''.</ref> He also contributed to the ''[[San Francisco Evening Post]]''. He also worked as an itinerant actor (for both stage and screen), newspaper illustrator, and piano player.<ref name=autogenerated4 /> In 1906 he moved to the [[East Coast of the United States|East Coast]]. In the 1910s he contributed many illustrations to both ''[[Redbook|Red Book]]'' magazine and its sister publication, ''[[Green Book (magazine)|Green Book]]''.<ref name=autogenerated2 />

Before [[World War I]], Irvin contributed illustrations regularly to ''Life'', and rose to the position of art editor. (''Life'' the humorous weekly, and not to be confused with the more famous magazine of the same name published by [[Henry Luce]]). Irvin also contributed to ''[[Cosmopolitan (magazine)|Cosmopolitan]]'' when it was a serious literary publication. He illustrated [[Wallace Irwin|Wallace Irwin's]] "Letters of a Japanese Schoolboy" in ''Life''.<ref name=autogenerated1>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,739658,00.html Stripper Irvin] ''Time''.</ref> He would later incorporate [[Japan]]ese imagery in satirical [[kakemono]] for ''The New Yorker''.<ref name=autogenerated1 />

[[File:Murad cigarettes ad 1900.jpg|thumb|[[Murad (cigarette)|Murad cigarettes]] ad by Rea Irvin in 1900]]