Mead Schaeffer\nBorn July 15, 1898 – November 6, 1980\nEducation Pratt Institute\n\nHe grew up in Springfield, Massachusetts. After completing high school, he enrolled in the Pratt Institute in 1916. At Pratt his teachers included Harvey Dunn and Charles Chapman. Dunn critiqued many of Schaeffer\'s early projects. While a student at Pratt, Schaeffer illustrated the first of seven \'Golden Boy\' books written by L. P. Wyman.\n\nn 1922, at age 24, he was hired to illustrate a series of classic novels for publisher Dodd Mead. His work for Dodd Mead continued until 1930. The books that he illustrated during this period included Moby Dick, Typee, and Omoo by Herman Melville; The Count of Monte Cristo; and Les Misérables by Victor Hugo.\n\nIn 1930, Schaeffer turned his attention from fictional characters to real people depicted in real settings. During the 1930s and 1940s he received commissions from magazines including Good Housekeeping, McCall\'s, the Saturday Evening Post, The Ladies Home Journal, Country Gentleman, and Cosmopolitan. He produced 46 covers for the weekly Saturday Evening Post. His work as a war correspondent for the Post during World War II resulted in a well-known series of covers illustrating American military personnel.\n\nHe lived for a time in New Rochelle, New York, but for most of his career lived in Arlington, Vermont, where his studio was in a barn. Norman Rockwell was a good friend, and Schaeffer and his family often posed as models for Rockwell\'s Saturday Evening Post illustrations and paintings.\n\nAwards\nSociety of Illustrators Hall of Fame inductee 1996\n\nonline gallery http://www.bpib.com/illustrat/schaeffe.htm

Mead Schaeffer History of American Illustration