Harvey Dunn\nBorn March 8, 1884 – October 29, 1952\nEducation South Dakota State University, Chicago Art Institute, after, studied under Howard Pyle\n\nHarvey Dunn was born on March 7, 1884 in a claim shanty near Manchester, South Dakota. He attended a one-room schoolhouse and in 1901 entered South Dakota Agricultural College (South Dakota State University) as a preparatory student. Ada Caldwell, his art instructor, encouraged him to further his education at the Chicago Art Institute. While attending the Institute from 1902 to 1904 he met Howard Pyle, America\'s foremost illustrator.\n\nAfter studying with Pyle, Dunn opened his own studio in Wilmington, Delaware in 1906. Soon he was illustrating for magazines including Scribner\'s, Harper\'s, Collier\'s Weekly, Century, Outing and The Saturday Evening Post and for numerous books.\n\nAs Dunn grew in stature as an illustrator he became interested in helping other artists as Ada Caldwell and Howard Pyle had helped him. In 1915, Dunn and fellow artist Charles Shepard Chapman established the Leonia School of Illustration. \"All that I am really doing is carrying on the Howard Pyle idea…Howard Pyle did not teach art. Art cannot be taught, any more than life can be taught. His main purpose was to quicken our souls that we might render service to the majesty of simple things.\"\n\nDunn\'s career as an illustrator and teacher was interrupted when he was chosen to be an artist for the American Expeditionary Forces, recording the gruesome realities of the war for propaganda, recruitment and historical purposes. \n\nAfter returning from the war, Dunn moved his family to Tenafly, New Jersey and reestablished himself as an illustrator. He also became more involved in teaching. Former student Saul Tepper wrote, \"Though he resumed his professional career with his usual energy, he began more and more to turn to his second role; that of teaching.\"\n

Dunn’s most inspired teaching was probably achieved at the Grand Central School of Art, which was established by the Grand Central Art Galleries and located on the top floor of Grand Central Terminal in New York City. His comments were captured by a student during a five-hour class session and were published in 1934 in a slim volume titled An Evening in the Classroom. Dunn was a demanding teacher and at times a harsh critic. He believed in preparing his students for the harsh realities and intense competition of the commercial world. Talent was not enough. As he once said, “If you ever amount to anything at all, it will be because you are true to that deep desire or ideal which made you seek artistic expression in pictures.” Among his students was the cowboy and western painter Arthur Roy Mitchell, who invited his mentor many times to come paint in Mitchell\'s hometown of Trinidad, Colorado.

\nTeaching: Leonia School of Illustration, Grand Central School of Art\n\nAwards

1945 Dunn was named a member of the National Academy of Design\n1976 inductee to the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame\n\nonline gallery https://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/list.php?m=a&s=tu&aid=2062

Harvey Dunn History of American Illustration