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| William Andrew Loomis As a youngster WILLIAM ANDREW LOOMIS loved to draw pictures, but it was a visit to the nearby studio of Howard Chandler Christy that made him decide to seek for himself an artist's career. Loomis was born in Syracuse, New York and grew up in Zanesville, Ohio. At 19 he went to New York to attend the Art Students League where he studied under George Bridgman and Frank Vincent DuMond. After a lengthy service overseas in WWI, Loomis returned to Chicago to work at the Charles Everett Johnson Advertising Art Studio, then for Bertch and Cooper. He finally opened his own studio as a free-lance artist. Equally at home in either editorial or advertising illustration, Loomis had a long career in both and also painted many outdoor twenty-four sheet posters. Countless art students both at the American Academy in Chicago, and those who could not study with him personally, have benefited from his several art books, including Fun with a Pencil, Figure Drawing for All it's Worth and Creative Illustration, published by the Viking Press. credits 1999 Society of Illustrators |
| The Andrew Loomis bio appearing on this site is with permission from The Society of Illustrators |
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