Earl Mayan

Biography:
THE BEGINNING; PRATT INSTITUTE, THE LEARNING PROCESS; AWARENESS; ILLUSTRATION: THE PULPS; STREET AND SMITH; THE "SHADOW," FICTION HOUSE, SCIENCE FICTION: THE WAR: ENLISTMENT: FORT BELVOIR, MANEUVERS, THE CAROLINAS, NEW ORLEANS, PORT OF EMBARKATION: PANAMA, FORT CLAYTON, TRINIDAD, B.W.I., THE STAY: MY FATHER'S DEATH; HOME: BACK TO NEW ORLEANS, THE STAGING AREA. CAMP VAN DORN, EXTENDED TRAINING: MANEUVERS, GEORGIA, LOUISIANA, TEXAS. BOSTON, PORT OF EMBARKATION: PLYMOUTH, ENGLAND, LE HAVRE, FRANCE. UP THE CHANNEL COAST TO LUCKY STRIKE, CAEN, CALAIS, DIEPPE, LIEGE, BRUSSELS, MAASTRICHE: ATTACHED TO THE BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY; PREPARATION FOR RHINE CROSSING: BOMBARDMENT, XANTEN, WESEL: REATTACHED TO SIMPSON'S NINTH ARMY, REACH REMAGEN, BRIDGE IS DOWN. WE CROSS TO WEST SIDE OF THE RHINE: PUSH AGAINST GRADUAL GERMAN RETREAT: DUSSELDORF, COLOGNE, KASSEL, PADERBORN, IDAR OBERSTEIN, OCCUPATION, GERMANY SURRENDERS: HAVE ENOUGH ACCUMULATED POINTS FOR DISCHARGE. LEAVE FOR HOME FROM LE HAVRE. JAPANESE SURRENDER; CAMP DIX, CAMP SHELBY, FINAL RELEASE FROM ARMY. HOME: THE TRANSITION, THE "PULP" MAGAZINES, ARGOSY, BANTAM BOOKS, "SHANE," "JANE EYRE," "FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS." THE SATURDAY EVENING POST, COVERS, INTERIOR ILLUSTRATIONS; CONDENSED BOOKS, READER'S DIGEST ILLUSTRATIONS. THE TEACHING PHASE, "ART STUDENT'S LEAGUE," 1962-1995.THE WRITING: AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL; CEZANNE, UTRILLO; "POUR MOI, CEZANNE," "LIFE AND ART, CHILD OF THE MONTMARTRE," "WAR LETTERS," AND, "MODERN ODYSSEY." FINE ART PHASE: LANDSCAPES, PORTRAITURE, ABSTRACTIONS, MONOTYPES, POSTER SERIES ON INDIVIDUALS AS ARTISTS, ART PERSONALITIES, BOAT SERIES, STILL-LIFE.... THE INTERNET, THE NEW CHALLENGE, THE WIDENING HORIZONS.

the Post illustrators

Mayan at the lower left
from Ken Stuart, art editor of the Post (standing)

Education:
1933-1936
>Pratt Institute

Credits:
1939
>Magazines(pulp):
Shadow Magazine,
Science Fiction, Western, Detective

1941-1945 War

1948
>Magazines(pulp), Adventure Magazine

>Argosy paperback books,
Bantam Books, Inc.
titles: "For Whom the Bell Tolls," "Shane,"
and others

1952-1962
Saturday Evening Post
cover paintings "Yogi Bera,"
"Ebbet's Field," etc.

True Magazine, McCalls,
Argosy, Readers Digest
(interior illustration)

1962-1995
Art Student's League of New York:
teacher for 33 years--fine art, illustration

1964-1970
>Grosset & Dunlap
"Masters of Art," "Eleanor Roosevelt,"
"Theodore Roosevelt," "Ben Gurion,"
"Winston Churchill," Rod Serling's series,
and others.
paperback books: "Jane Eyre,"
children's paperbacks,
other titles

>Random House
Alfred Hitchcock's mysteries

>Advertising: Roy Rogers, U.S. Navy (stand-up figures)

fine art phase
1970-present
>Landscape, still life, portraits, abstractions;
oil medium, some mixed media.

Drawings: graphite, litho-crayon, and monotypes
using oil as a medium.

Argosy Magazine illustration by Mayan


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