Robert Fawcett
“The Illustrator’s Illustrator”
Robert Fawcett was born in 1903 near London, England. His father, an artist himself, encouraged his young son to draw by paying him a penny for every drawing. At the age of fourteen, as World War I was raging, Fawcett and his family left England for Canada.
Five years later, Fawcett returned to England to study at London’s Slade School of Fine Art, where he “did nothing but draw from the model eight hours a day for two years.” He then moved to New York to begin a career in commercial art.
