Rufus Fairchild Zogbaum

• Name — Rufus Fairchild Zogbaum • Birth Name — Rufus Fairchild Zogbaum • Born — August 28, 1849 • Birthplace — Brooklyn, New York (state), U.S. • Died — October 22, 1925 (aged 76) • Place of death — New Rochelle, New York, U.S. • Field — Illustration, Painting, Drawing, Journalism

Zogbaum was born in Charleston, South Carolina. He was educated at the Art Students League in New York City from 1878 to 1879, and during 1880–1882 studied under Léon Bonnat in Paris.

• Illustration — The Battle of Gettysburg, c. 1906, now on display at the Governor’s Reception Room at the Minnesota State Capitol Harper's Weekly normally hired freelance illustrators; nevertheless, for a time Zogbaum was on the magazine's art staff and was sometimes given the assignment to redraw submissions by freelance illustrators. In the 19th-century news magazine world, redrawing illustrations was the equivalent of editing writers’ works. Two of the most famous artists who made illustrations for Harper’s were Winslow Homer and Frederic Remington, whose first few illustrations for Harper’s were redrawn by staff artists, including Zogbaum. Zogbaum and Rockwell both lived and worked in New Rochelle, New York, a well-known art colony especially popular among illustrators of the early twentieth century. Rudyard Kipling referred to Zogbaum in a poem he sent to then-Captain (later Rear Admiral) Robley D. Evans, U.S. Navy, in 1896.

His son, Rufus F. Zogbaum, Jr., became an admiral in the U.S. Navy, and his grandson, Wilfrid Zogbaum (1915–1965), was a painter and sculptor who had teaching stints in several universities, including the University of California, Berkeley.