Timeline

These are the main events in Edwin’s life.

  • 1868 – Born – Born in Philadelphia, PA
  • 1870 – Resident – Philadelphia, PA
  • 1879 – Student – Nazareth Hall boarding school in Nazareth, PA
  • 1880 – Resident – Lived in Northampton, PA (attending Nazareth)
  • 1885-1892 – Student – Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art in Philadelphia, PA
  • 1892 – Husband – Married Eleanor in Philadelphia, PA
  • 1895 – Illustrator – The Monthly Illustrator
  • 1896 – Illustrator – Joseph Pulitzer’s newspaper, The World
  • 1897 – Illustrator – Life Magazine
  • 1900 – Resident – Lived in Philadelphia, PA
  • 1900-? – Student – Attended the Académie Julian in Paris; Eleanor accompanied him
  • 1902 – Illustrator – Country Life
  • 1902 – Illustrator – The Cosmopolitan
  • 1910 – Resident – Lived in New York City
  • 1910 – Illustrator – Century Magazine
  • 1911 – Illustrator – St. Nicholas magazine
  • 1911-1913 – Illustrator – The Sun
  • 1912 – Illustrator – New-York Tribune
  • 1912 – Illustrator – Satire, a Pulitzer periodical
  • 1913 – Author – What to Draw and How to Draw It
  • 1915 – Author – Practical Drawing
  • 1918 – Author – Practical Art Anatomy
  • 1920 – Resident – New York City
  • 1920 – Author – Animated Cartoons
  • 1921 – Author – Drawing Made Easy
  • 1922 – Illustrator – The Seattle Intelligencer’s Book of Magic
  • 1922 – Illustrator – The Washington Times
  • 1924 – Author – Instead of Scribbling
  • 1925 – Traveller – Travelled to England; cited residence as Weehawken, NJ
  • 1925 – Author – Practical Graphic Figures
  • 1926 – Author – Practical Pictorial Composition
  • 1927 – Author – The Motion-Picture Cameraman
  • 1928 – Author – Practical Pen Drawing
  • 1928 – Author – More Things to Draw
  • 1929 – Author – Practical Art Lettering
  • 1930 – Resident – Lived in Dumont, NJ; First record that divorced
  • 1930 – Author – Practical Landscape Paintings in Oils
  • 1931 – Author – Animal Drawing in Outline
  • 1931 – Author – Practical Water-color Sketching
  • 1933 – Author – Practical Engraving and Etching
  • 1936 – Author – Practical Course in Memory Drawing
  • 1940 – Resident – Lived in Dumont, NJ
  • 1946 – Resident – Lived in Dumont, NJ
  • 1951 – Death

(Twilight) Previous     Next (Artist)