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HE WAS HIGHLY
INFLUENTIAL
AND HIS WORK
APPEARED ACROSS
MANY OF THE
TOP PERIODICALS
INCLUDING LIFE,
VANITY FAIR,
ESQUIRE AND
APPAREL ARTS.

There is no dispute. Laurence Fellows is assure- sylvania Academy of Art. He then travelled to
dly one of the most iconic men’s fashion illustra- England where he developed his technique and
tors from the decades of the 1930’s and 1940’s: then honed it later in France at the Academie
He was highly influential and his work appeared Julien, where he was to work under the beady
across many of the top periodicals including eye of J.P. Laurens. On his return to The States in
LIFE, Vanity Fair, Esquire and Apparel Arts. 1910, he got to be known for his specific drawing
He was born in 1885 in the town of Ardmore, style that was Vogue-influenced. It focused on
formerly known as Athensville, in Pennsylvania. shapes as a whole as opposed to concentrating
He began his formal training locally at the Penn- on their details. His thin outlines and flat tones

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