Poster Artists
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Richard N. Bibler (1922 - 2013)
Educated at the University of Kansas in Fine Arts, he was active in the Carmel Art Association during the 1980's. He had a popular cartoon in the University Daily Kansan. His cartoon was published in several campus newspapers during the 1950's. He received his teaching credential at Colorado State College of Education, then went on to earn a Masters degree at Stanford University. He taught art for thirty years at Monterey Peninsula College. |
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Richard "Dick" Stonnell Cole (1927 – 2016)
An award-winning illustrator, nationally-recognized watercolorist. A proud fourth generation Californian, he grew up in Redlands, CA and graduated with honors from UCLA and Art Center College of Design. He served with the US Air Force as an air traffic controller during the Berlin Airlift 1948-49. He worked as an Art Director, Graphic Designer, Illustrator and teacher, in New York, Palo Alto, San Francisco and Sonoma. Dick garnered numerous awards from New York, San Francisco, Western and Los Angeles Art Directors Clubs, as well as the Society of Illustrators, plus San Francisco and Los Angeles Society of Illustrators. With time, he added fine art watercolorist to his list of achievements. Cole shared his passion for art as a teacher at the Academy of Art University, San Jose State, Foothill College, the Sonoma Community Center, and in numerous workshops. As a nationally recognized watercolorist, his extraordinary work is in private and public collections from coast to coast. Dick served as past president of Francisco Society of Illustrators, National Watercolor Society, and the California Watercolor Association. |
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Eldon Dedini (1921 - 2006)
Born in King City, Dedini is a well known cartoonist. While attending Hartnell College,Dedini sold his first drawing to Esquire Magazine. He graduated from Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles. Dedini has published work the the New Yorker, Disney, Playboy, Universal Studios and the Pebble Beach Concours d' Elegance. It is said that Dedini drew with such richness that his black and white drawings almost seemed to be in color. Dedini spent the last years of his life drawing and living in Carmel, California. He passed away from cancer at the age of 84. |
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Ed Greco (1944?-)
As a graduate of the University of Santa Clara, Greco spent 45 years as an advertising executive. He developed corporate ad campaigns, collateral material and graphics for his clients. With his experience as a cartoonist, Greco is able to diversify his art styles. Along with providing artwork for the Adobe tours, Greco's clients also include Westinghouse, Rolls Royce, Clint Eastwood, Samsung and Mondavi. Now, an avid car buff, Greco spends the majority of his time creating artwork that he finds intriguing, such as cars. |
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Mary Agnes Lansdowne (1915 - 2015)
Mary Agnes Lansdowne was a well known artist in Monterey. She attended Scripps College where she studied with Millard Sheets. After attending Scripps College, she went to the California School of Fine Arts and eventually graduated from San Jose State University with a degree in interior design. Mary was a member of the Carmel Art Association, Casa Abrego Club, Colonial Dames and Daughters of the American Revolution. Lansdowne was best known for her seascape and floral old paintings as well sketches of historical buildings and nature scenes. She adored the Monterey Peninsula and often took inspiration from its landscapes. Her artwork is sold throughout Monterey along with her notecards and various prints. |
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William H. Meyers (1815 - ?) - His work was used for the 1977 Adobe Tour Poster, courtesy of the Bancroft Library.
Born in Philadelphia in 1815, William Henry Meyers went to sea in 1838 aboard a trading vessel to the West Indies. Soon, he joined the U. S. Navy and was promoted to the Warrant Officer rank of Gunner in 1841. He served on the USS Cyane in 1842 when Commodore Jones prematurely seized Monterey. Later during the War with Mexico, he was again in California as a gunner on the USS Dale. Due to ill health Meyers resigned from the Navy in 1847 and worked at the Naval Laboratory in Washington, DC. His work came at a time when military forces were widely scattered, and battles occurred among relatively small forces on widely separated battlefields. Thus, many of his works are depictions based on eyewitness accounts, as Meyers was not actually present at some of these events. None the less, he was for all intents the equivalent of a “combat photographer” during this era when even basic materials for watercolor painting would have been difficult to obtain. His depictions of the American conquest of California and gold mining activities are of great historical importance, and his work appears in significant collections such as the New York Public Library and the Bancroft Library in Berkeley, California. |
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Jo Mora (1876-1947)
Jo Mora was born in Uruguay in 1876. He came to the United States as a child, studied at New York art schools, became a cartoonist on Boston newspapers, and nearly seventy years ago drifted into the Southwest, where for many years he lived a nomadic life as a cowboy, ranch hand, friend and student of the Hop and Navajo Indians. All the while he was active with pencil and brush, ranging over the entire West and preserving for posterity much of the romance and the lore of a now vanished era. One of the most versatile of Western artists, Jo Mora worked in many mediums. He illustrated numerous books, his paintings hang in many museums and his murals and sculptured groups adorn important public buildings all over the West. During his last years, he won added Rowen by his beautiful executed and historically accurate dioramas, perhaps the best known of which are the series depicting the life of his friend Will Rogers, done for the Will Rogers Memorial at Claremore, Oklahoma. Jo Mora's lifelong interest was the California Vaqueros, that hearty breed of missionary-trained horsemen who tended the immense mission herds for eighty years before the Texas cowboys appeared on our national scene. In "Californios", his last book, the author pays tribute to the daring and skill of those daring, hard riding pioneer cowhands bringing to light much fascination information about their method and equipment, their evolution from the wild Indians to the finished cowboys, their contributions to the economy of the province during the seven decades and their tremendous influence on the techniques of the cattle industry today, especially in California. |
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Lucian Myron (1945 - ?)
The following bio information was provided by the artist. When approached by the Monterey History and Art Association to come up with a poster for the Adobe Tour in 1989 - it was quite an artistic joyance and privilege for me, an artist of little note having a studio from 85' to 93', right in the heart of Monterey's beautiful collection of adobes. The bright white washed wall and vermillion roof tiles accented by fuchsias, bougainvilleas, white lilies, and roses are the loveliest earthen structures in California. On sunny days I would paint in the outdoor garden patio of the Casa Gutierrez Adobe (circa 1836) with its intentional western exposure and some mornings I'd be inside upstairs, with its thick walls, in quietude, doing pen and inks, watercolors, and so on as the morning sun streamed in warming the room. I am still going but not in the Adobe Park. |
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Earl Newman (? - )
This bio was provided by the artist: In 1960, I came to Venice, CA, with a wife and two kids in a ’55 Chevy station wagon, in quest of a future. It was the right place at the right time. Forty-fours years later, I am still a self-employed artist. I want to thank all the friends who have helped me along the path, and to thank Venice for being an environment that encourages the arts. Through the medium of silk-screen, also known as serigraphy, I’ve been able to reproduce my designs in volume, usually 100 at a time. It is like having 100 canvases on which to experiment, using different colors of papers and inks, varying the color blends as I go along. Thus, no two prints are alike. As an artist, I’ve been able to sell my work inexpensively, to communicate and share with others. Unlike mass-produced machine prints, each silk-screen print is made step by step, each color a separate printing. Besides doing nature prints, I’m also involved in music and theater posters for the Monterey Jazz Festival, the Oregon Shakespeare Theater, Blues and Jazz Festivals in Southern California, and the Oregon Coast Aquarium. The Smithsonian’s Division of Musical History in Washington, DC, has recently acquired a complete collection of my numbered/signed edition of Monterey Jazz Festival posters dating back to 1963. Newman obtained a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Massachusetts College of Art in1956 and a Graduate degree from Harvard University in 1957. Earl Newman has been living as an artist in Oregon since 1972. |
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David Osborn (? - 2002) & Charles Woods (? - 2011)
Graphic artists, art historians, restoration specialists, preservationists, archivists, and collaborators from the San Francisco Bay area. In 1957, they moved to Nevada City. Their life long goal was art and culture preservation. In 1972, they saved the Miners Foundry from demolition and established the American Victorian Museum. Both achieved Masters in Art History from UC Berkeley. Their art included silkscreen, cartography, and print making. They created a studio-store in Nevada City. |
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Millard Owen Sheets (1907 - 1989)
Painter, etcher, illustrator, and muralist. Born in Pomona, California. Grew up on a ranch where he fell in love with the land. Most of his work remained representational and landscapes. Attended Chouinard Art School in Los Angeles (1925- 1929). Was a pupil of Chamberlin, Hinkle. and Theodore Modra. He became and Art Professor and Director at Scripps College (1932 - 1935) for six years was Director at Otis Art Institute. In 1960, he moved to Mendocino; built his home "Barking Rocks" in Gualala, Member of: California Art Club, California Watercolor Society (President 1946 - 1947), American Watercolor Society, and Bohemian Club. |
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Artist: Hans Skalagard (1924 - 2017)
Drawings, oils, and watercolors. Descendant of Vikings, born on Skuvoy in the Faroe Islands. In 1955, he became an American citizen. After 30 years of experience at sea, his life at sea inspired his artwork throughout his life. His family whose seamanship is traced back 1100 years, he first set sail as an apprentice at the age of 13 years. Often drawing as a child, he claimed to be a completely self taught artist. He also drew inspiration from ships logs to help imagine what happened at a given time, thus claims everything is historically accurate. In 1997, he closed Square - Rigger Art Gallery, his gallery in Carmel and moved to Petaluma, California. He was inducted into the California Scandinavian American Hall of Fame in 2013. |
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Alison Stilwell Cameron (1921 - 1991)
Born in Beijing, China, the daughter of General Stilwell studied traditional Chinese painting under, Prince P'u Ju. She was an author and illustrator. She was also a trustee at the Monterey Institute International Studies and a member of Society Women Geographers and American Women for International Understanding Exhibited in China, United States, South America. She owned Principal Stilwell Studio in Carmel, California. Alison passed away from pneumonia at the age of 70. |
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William F. Stone, Jr. (1929 – 2009)
Well Known Monterey Peninsula Artist known for his colorful, stylized watercolors of coastal and gold country landscapes of California; New England fishing and lobster ports; landscapes and coastal scenes of England, Scotland, and Wales, Portugal and Japan. He also published an illustrated book of poems based on his experiences and reminiscences of Mendocino, London, and Portugal. . Born on September 11, 1929 in Walnut Grove, CA. He attended UC Berkeley, then the school of Medical Illustration in Boston, where he met his future wife, Nancy Evans. He then went on to get his teaching credentials. He was a well-loved art teacher at Blackford High School in Campbell, California before moving to the Monterey Peninsula in 1965. There he started a long teaching career at Carmel High School. He was well known in the art community of Carmel and was referred to by many as "Mr. Carmel". He served as president of the Monterey Museum of Art (3 years) and the Carmel Art Association (5 terms). Among other things, he designed eight posters for the Annual Adobe Tour sponsored by the Monterey History and Art Association (1990, 1991, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999); Carmel-by- the-Sea's commemorative 75th, 80th, and 100th birthday posters; the invitation and program cover for the 1994 Designer's Showcase; the logo for the Friends of Monterey Symphony and the Carmel Business Association; and the poster for Rolls Royce's 100th birthday. |
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N.J. Taylor (1942 - )
This bio was specially written by the artist: From Miniatures to Murals As a multi media artist I have always tried to choose a medium that best expressed the content of my subjects. My drawing ability is always the foundation for my artwork. I was born in Helena, Montana and moved to NYC to study art in the mid 1960s. I studied at the Art Students League, the New School and was a medal winner and scholarship student at the National Academy. I began exhibiting my work in galleries beginning then. I lived in Greenwich Village and was also employed as a printed linen designer. I moved to Provincetown on Cape Cod in 1971 where I had my own Taylor Gallery for seven years before moving to California because I liked it here. Eventually after moving to the peninsula I found my way as an artist while sharing a studio space in Studio 15 at the Carmel Sunset Center. I began giving art lessons which led to numerous teaching and artist in residence grants in Monterey County. My growing interest in becoming an independent contractor for a variety of clients also led me to illustration contract work for numerous national educational publications. I had a long term contract with CTB McGraw Hill. My growing interest in the history and environment of the peninsula also created many opportunities for contracts and exhibitions including the one at the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History featuring a extinct specimen they have in their collection of the Carolina Parakeet. My portrait was taken at this exhibition. I happily continue to create art of my own choosing and really enjoy creating miniatures for fund raisers. Collections: City of Carmel, Writer’s Museum, Edinburgh, Scotland, Silverado Museum, Silverado, CA, Monterey State Historic Parks, Monterey History and Art Association One of my reproduced commissioned artworks for Monterey State Historic Parks featuring Jules Simoneau and Robert Louis Stevenson playing chess in 1879 can be seen at the Simoneau Plaza in downtown Monterey. |
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Robert J. Wecker (1948 - )
Robert Wecker, a native of the Monterey Peninsula, spent most of his young adult life here after traveling the world while his father was in the military. Bob attended Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, California and earned a degree in Fine Arts. After graduation, Bob returned to the Monterey Peninsula and started The Wecker Group, an advertising design studio specializing in branding. Still going strong after 43 years, The Wecker Group has created thousands of memorable brands for local businesses, large and small. His designs have appeared in dozens of design annuals nationally and internationally. Bob co-founded PiCA, People in Communication Arts, a Monterey-based non-profit hosting the world’s top communicators in an open forum. He is an avid illustrator and enjoys camping and hiking and is married with two adult children and resides in Monterey. |
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