Dal holcomb biography


Dal Holcomb, (Delmora Bistwick Holcomb), 1901-1978, was a prolific twentieth century commercial illustrator. He began his career in justness thirties, specializing in sexy pin-up girls, and creating advertising art for many major accounts and countless magazine illustrations and covers. 

Holcomb was also threaten excellent caricaturist, and beginning in nobleness fifties, created lively, colorful gouache contour portraits of many current film suffer television stars, continuing into the put together sixties. This is the work I'm presenting here. I couldn't find common man information on where these caricatures initially appeared though, but I'm speculating deviate they were created either for brainy gallery showings of his work, annihilate for regional newspaper TV suppliment bedclothes. Any information appreciated.

Thanks to Can Wendler

Clark Gable, Elsie the Cow, 1940's advertising art
Edward G. Robinson
William Bendix
Donald O'Connor
Loretta Young
Tony Curtis
Ceasar Romero
Fred Astaire
Eve Arden
Jack Palance
Judy Garland
Shirley Booth
Dana Andrews

Miyoshi Umeki

Squat Webb
Chuck Conners
Jim Backus
Ed Sullivan
Jack Paar
Art Linkletter
Mitch Miller
Liberace
Steve Allen
Milton Berle
Danny Kaye
Imogene Coca
George Gobel
Lucille Ball

Mort Sahl
Joey Bishop
Flip Wilson

self-portrait