Edward Mason Eggleston

He worked primarily with oil paints on canvas, and also with pastels, water colors, and gouache. Eggleston tapped into an American trend toward escapist fantasy during the Great Depression years of the 1930s. Described as "storytelling," his calendar works focused on women in stylish and fashionable dresses and hats, swimwear, or costumed as Native-American women, "Egyptian goddesses," pirate girls, and women in the character of Peter Pan.

• Name — Edward Mason Eggleston • Born — 22 November 1882 • Birthplace — Ashtabula, Ohio • Died — 14 January 1941 • Place of death — New York City • Education — Columbus Art School • Known for — Storytelling images, fashion and fantasy images, portraits, calendar and advertising illustrations • Movement — Art Deco, Genre painting, Fantasy art • Illustration — Edward Mason Eggleston, signature from artwork, 1919

Eggleston was born in Ashtabula, Ohio. By his late teens, he was living in Columbus, and was counted there in US Census in 1900. He attended the Columbus Art School. He was married in Montgomery, Ohio in 1907 to Ethel Grace Leland. Around 1908, they moved to Rochester, New York, where he was listed as a "designer" in the 1909 and 1910 city directory. By 1918, Eggleston established his own business in Brooklyn, describing himself as a commercial illustrator in his registration for the draft.

Eggleston created artwork for use in magazines. The work can be broadly categorized as illustrations for stories and advertisements. His work for Chase Velmo upholstery, used for car seats, showed women (and a few men) admiring or luxuriating in the upholstery of the automobile. He created artwork for Willys-Knight, Gardner, Cadillac, Kissel, Studebaker, and Buick, showing the luxury of the car interiors and exteriors.

In 1916, Eggleston created an iconic painting for the Fisk Tire Company, one of a number of illustrations the company used to show its advertising icon, a boy with a tire. Eggleston's painting was printed, the print varnished to resemble a painting, and hung in Fisk tire stores. He also created the art for a Great Lakes Exposition advertisement in 1937, used on "millions of posters and booklets." He also did an Art Deco series of paintings featuring railroad destinations for the Pennsylvania Railroad. He produced art for calendar makers. His images were also used for jigsaw puzzles.

• 1914, girl with fishing pole • 1916 woman with skis • 1916 woman with iceskates • 1919 "The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi" or 1920 "Dixie" • 1925 Portrait, jewelry catalog • 1926 "The Opera Queen" • 1927 "Hello" or "Night and the stars are calling" • 1928 "Moonlight and You" • 1928 "The Valentine Girl" • 1928 "Wonderful One" • 1929 "Memories" • 1929 "Golden Glory" • 1929 "Sunshine" • 1930 "Going Up" • 1930 "Here I Am" • 1930 "Vacation Days" woman in a red swimsuit calendar photo • 1932 "A Day in June", girl and butterfly • 1931"Top 'O the World", Woman with horse, '30s • 1932 girl picking flowers under blue sky • 1933 "A-milking we will go" • 1933 "Found" • 1934 "On Time" • 1934 "Girl in Red Gown" • 1934 "Moonlight and Roses" • 1937 "Lantern Glow" • 1937 "Tambourine Dancer" • 1938 "A Bonnie Lassie" • 1938 "Orchids" • 1939 "Riding High" woman on horseback in front of red cliff • "The Beauty"

• c. 1925 "Isle of Dreamy Melodies" • 1927 "Indian Love Call" • 1929 "Pirate Queen of the Deck" • 1929 "Starlight" • 1929 "Bringing Home the Treasure" • 1930 "Pipes of Pan" or "Melody" • 1930 "Princess of the Treasure Isle" • 1931 "Evening Star" • 1931 "Nymph and Frog" or "Enchantment" • Couple sits looking at images in distance • 1931 "Peter Pan" standing on rock • 1931 "Queen of the Waves" • 1932 Fantasy castle landscape • 1932/33 "Flame of the Mesa" • 1932 "Red Wing" • 1932 "The Treasure Princess" • 1933 "Mariquita" or "Spanish Dancer" • 1933 "Softly play the Pipes of Pan" • 1933 "The Proposal" or "Hearts Unmasked", c 1933 • 1933 "Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, 1933 • 1933 "Reaching for the Moon" • 1934 "The Paradise of Peter Pan" 1934 calendar with baby birds • 1934 "Cleopatra" • 1935 "Peter Pan" with seagulls • 1935 "Queen of the Mountain Tribes" • 1936 "Flaming Arrow" • 1936 "Playmates of Peter Pan" • 1937 "Found" • 1937 "Who, Who's There?" 1939 pinup • 1938 "Lady of Mystery" • "Gypsy Love Call" • Dream Castle" or "Daydreams"

• 1932 Pillared terrace overlooks a fantasy castle across the water • 1940s Lake Waterfall Cabin Salesman Sample Calendar Print

• 1916 Fisk Tires Sleepy Boy • 1935 Pennsylvania Railroad, Atlantic City, America's Great All Year Resort • 1935 Pennsylvania Railroad, Atlantic City, America's All Year Resort • 1935 Pennsylvania Railroad, Atlantic City, America's Greatest Seashore Resort • 1935 Pennsylvania Railroad, Washington, The City Beautiful • 1937 Billy Rose's Aquacade, Great Lakes Exposition • 1937 Great Lakes Exposition

• Bessie Nowell, "Bringing Home the Treasure" • Buckingham Jig Picture Puzzle, "Princess of the Treasure Isle" • Detroit Gasket and Manufacturing Company, Dee-Gee puzzles, "Flame of the Mesa" • Detroit Gasket and Manufacturing Company, Dee-Gee puzzles, "Isle of Dreamy Melodies" • Detroit Gasket and Manufacturing Company, Dee-Gee puzzles, "Starlight • Detroit Gasket and Manufacturing Company, Dee-Gee puzzles, "Treasure Princess • Einson-Freeman Company, "The Proposal" • Harter Jiggety Jig, "Princess of Treasure Isle" • Jumble Jig Saw Puzzles, "Princess of the Treasure Isle" • Louis F. Dow Company Jig Zag puzzle, "Evening Star" • Parker Brothers, "Paradise of Peter Pan" • Madmar Quality Company, Inc, "Indian Love Call" • Royal Picture Puzzle, "Gypsy Love Call" • Tuco Workshops, Inc., Tuco puzzle, "Cleopatra" • Tuco Workshops, Inc., Tuco puzzle, "Paul Revere's Ride" • Unknown maker, "Queen of the Dock"

• See: Edward Mason Eggleston at Wikimedia Commons for more complete gallery • Illustration — 1914, girl with fishing pole • Illustration — Philadelphia Record Sunday Magazine, January 23, 1916 • Illustration — 1919 The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi was modified in 1929 and called "Dixie." • Illustration — c. 1925 "Isle of Dreamy Melodies," girl in moonlight with a ukulele • Illustration — 1926 “The Opera Queen” • Illustration — 1928 "Valentine Girl" used on cover of Dennison's Party Magazine, January/February 1928 • Illustration — 1929 "Golden Glory" • Illustration — 1929 "Memories" • Illustration — 1933, "Softly Play the Pipes of Pan" • Illustration — 1931 “The Treasure Princess” • Illustration — 1931 "Evening Star" • Illustration — 1931 "Going Up" • Illustration — 1932, A Day in June • Illustration — 1932, Let's Go America • Illustration — 1932, Red Wing • Illustration — 1933 "The Proposal" or "Hearts Unmasked" • Illustration — 1933 "Mariquita" or "Spanish Dancer" • Illustration — 1934 "Cleopatra" • Illustration — 1935 poster for Atlantic City and the Pennsylvania Railroad • Illustration — 1936 "Joy of Youth" • Illustration — 1937 "In the Spotlight" • Illustration — 1939 "Lady of Mystery" • Illustration — "Sunshine" 1929 • Illustration — "Flaming Arrow" 1936

The canonical record carries the following identifying particulars.

On origins, the institutional record states the following. Born in 1882 at Ashtabula. It is also recorded that edward Mason Eggleston died in 1941 at New York City.

Edward Mason Eggleston is recorded with the occupation illustrator. Recorded as a citizen of United States. Recorded with the gender male. The record continues: edward Mason Eggleston was born on 22 November 1882. Eggleston died on 14 January 1941.

• Publication: Artists in Ohio, 1787-1900, a biographical dictionary, Author: Mary Sayre Haverstock Edition/Format: Article: Biography: State or province government publication: English, OCLC Number: 139306892 • Author: Mantle Fielding Edition/Format: Article: Biography: English Publication: Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American painters, sculptors & engravers. OCLC Number: 70172637 • Lady of Mystery: A Collector's Guide to Edward Eggleston by Norman I. Platnick. The author passed away and his son put this book online for free. He asks a donation to his memory from those that find it useful.