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Charles Santore
Charles Santore was born in Philadelphia in 1935.
He attended the Museum School of Art (now the University of the Arts),
where he studied illustration. After graduating in 1956 and serving
in the Army he returned to Philadelphia and worked in a small art studio
where he began freelancing and doing small spot drawings for art services
and advertising agencies. Soon Santore began getting assignments
from the N. W. Ayer Agency, the second largest advertising agency in the
world at the time. His first editorial assignment was for the old
Saturday Evening Post headquartered in Philadelphia.
Since the early sixties, his work has appeared on record
and book jackets, in advertising for major agencies and institutions, and
in publications such as Redbook, Ladies Home Journal, Esquire, Cosmopolitan,
National Geographic and many others, but perhaps his most popular early
work is the many celebrity portraits he has done for TV Guide magazine
covers.
Charles Santore’s illustrations are part of the permanent
collections of the Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, PA, The Free Library
of Philadelphia, New York City’s Museum of Modern Art, The United States
Department of the Interior and many private collections.
Two of his illustrations are currently part of a traveling
exhibition entitled "Myth, Magic and Mystery. One Hundred Years of American
Children’s Book Illustrations." His awards include the Hamilton King
Award from the New York Society of Illustrators, a gold medal from the
New York Society of Publication Designers, and an "Edger" from the Mystery
Writers of America.
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