Douglass Crockwell

• Name — Douglass Crockwell • Birth Name — Spencer Douglass Crockwell • Born — April 29, 1904 • Birthplace — Columbus, Ohio, U.S. • Died — November 30, 1968 • Place of death — Glens Falls, New York, U.S. • Education — Washington University in St. Louis • Occupation — Commercial artist and experimental filmmaker • Spouse — Margaret Braman (1933–1968) his death; 3 children

He received a B.Sc. from the Washington University (1926) in St. Louis and studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts (1927) and the St. Louis School of Fine Arts (1927–31). Crockwell's paintings have been featured in advertisements for Friskies dog food and in a poster for the American Relief for Holland. For the latter, he was awarded a gold medal from the Art Director's Club in 1946.

Crockwell created recruiting and other posters for various branches of the United States government during World War II, and many illustrations for The Saturday Evening Post. He also created poster art for the MGM film The Yearling (1946).

Federally commissioned murals were produced from 1934 to 1944 in the United States through the Section of Painting and Sculpture, later called the Section of Fine Arts, of the Treasury Department. Crockwell painted three. In 1937 he completed an oil on canvas mural, Vermont Industries, for the post office in White River Junction, Vermont. In 1938, he completed Endicott, 1901- Excavating for the Ideal Factory, also an oil on canvas, for the post office in Endicott, New York. Signing of the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek was painted in 1944 for the post office in Macon, Mississippi.

• Brown & Bigelow • General Electric • General Motors • Welch's • Lederle Laboratories • Wyeth • USO • 18 Saturday Evening Post covers • Standard Oil • General Mills • Kraft Foods • Schrafft's Candies • Kolynos Toothpaste • Coca-Cola • Country Gentleman covers • Hiram Walker • Moxie • International Harvester • Grace Lines • 110 United States Brewers' Association ads • WPA • Ralston Purina • McCall's magazine • Avondale Mills • American Tobacco Company • Coronet magazine • Curtis Publishing Company • Esquire magazine • Republic Steel • United Artists • Life magazine • Look magazine • Camel Cigarettes • U.S. Marine Corps • Women's Day magazine • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

• Glens Falls Sequence (1937–1946) • Fantasmagoria #1 (1938) • Fantasmagoria #2 (1939) • Simple Destiny Abstractions (1939–1940) • Fantasmagoria #3 (1940) • The Chase (1942) • The Long Bodies (1947) • Mutoscope reels: Red (1949), A Long Body (1950), Random Glow (c. 1950s), Stripes (c. 1950s), Ode to David (c. 1950s), Around the Valley (c. 1950s)