Edward Vebell
Vebell (May 25, 1921 – February 9, 2018) was an American fencer and illustrator.
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Edward Vebell
Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Designed by Edward Vebell. · U.S. Postal Service · Public domain
- Name
- Edward Vebell
- Born
- 25 May 1921
- Birthplace
- Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Died
- 9 February 2018
- Occupation
- Illustrator
- Nationality
- United States
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Vebell (May 25, 1921 – February 9, 2018) was an American fencer and illustrator.
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Edward Vebell (1921–2018) was an artist, fencer and illustrator, among other activities, of American nationality. The artist was born in Chicago. Works are held at National Portrait Gallery.
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• Name — Edward Vebell • Born — 25 May 1921 • Birthplace — Chicago, Illinois, United States • Died — 9 February 2018 • Occupation — Illustrator • Sport — Fencing • Show Medals — yes • Medal Templates — Men's fencing Pan American Games
Early life
Early life
Vebell was born in Chicago, to Lithuanian parents. He attended art school from the age of fourteen.
Sport
Sport
Vebell competed in the individual (semi-finalist) and team épée events at the 1952 Summer Olympics. Vebell was elected to the US Fencing Hall of Fame in April 2014.
Later life
Later life
After the war, he moved to Westport with his wife, Elsa Cerra. They had three daughters. In February 2018 he was honored by the Westport Historical Society with an autobiographical exhibit that paid homage to his career and achievements. He died on February 9, 2018, aged 96.
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French colonial soldier haggling for a better price from a prostitute on the Rue Balochine in the native Casbah of Algiers, North Africa. In his book An Artist at
Edward T. Vebell
Aka "Berlin street scene" In his 2017 book An Artist at
Edward T. Vebell
Life and career
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Life and career
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1921
Edward Vebell was born on 25 May 1921.
2018
Edward Vebell died on 9 February 2018.
Illustrator
• Illustration — Field Marshal Goering, Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, 1945; original now in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum • Illustration — Mail Collection, 1973 postage stamp designed by Vebell After working as an illustrator in Chicago, Vebell enlisted in the United States Army during World War II. He became a staff artist for Stars & Stripes. Vebell later headed the Anzio, Italy Stars & Stripes office, where he worked with Bill Mauldin and Gregor Duncan. Vebell claimed that he was the one who convinced Mauldin to switch from a pen to a brush for his WWII cartoons. Vebell was an official courtroom artist for the Nuremberg war trials, often having to view and drawing the courtroom scenes through binoculars, because it was so crowded. Many of his Nuremberg works are now in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. As a professional illustrator and artist, his commissions include work for the United States Postal Service. He also executed commissions for many periodicals, including a long run as Reader's Digest's most popular illustrator.
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- “Edward Vebell”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- 1.Remembering Ed Vebell.
- 2.Norman Rockwell Museum. An Afternoon with Illustration Legend Ed Vebell - Norman Rockwell Museum - The Home for American Illustration. 29 July 2010.
- 3.Ed Vebell.
- 4.Memorial for Ed Vebell — the 'most interesting man in Westport' — memorial set for Saturday. Ct Insider. 14 February 2018.
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