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Frederick Cooper

Introduction

Frederick G. Cooper is very well known as an American foremost illustrator, and enjoyed his career in the first quarter of the twentieth century. Frederick G. Cooper was born in 1883 in Mc Minnville. This artist began his career in 1904 from New York; initially he started his work as a freelance illustrator and designer. Throughout his career, he worked for number of magazines and posters. He was also a founding member of American Institute of Graphics and Art. Being associated with American institute of Graphics Arts, he was also associated with the New York's Society of Illustrators (Charles & Matlack, 1913).This essay will be focus on the contributions of Frederick G. Cooper as an illustrator and artist.

Discussion

Frederick G. Cooper started his career as a freelance illustrator and designer from New York in 1904, when he came. He was associated with the New York Edison which later on known as ConEd, and this association included a fifty years relationship. Throughout this period, he worked in designing and creating calendars, posters, ads, basically it was all about the visual identity of the associated company. He created ads and posters for the War Department, Westinghouse and illustrated magazines, books, designed alphabets and articles. He also contributed to Life, that started from 1904 and goes on the early 1930's, in which he worked permanently as the art editor at the concluding years of Charles Dana Gibson's tenure of the magazine.

Frederick Cooper-The Illustrator

Frederick G. Cooper is one of the famous designer and cartoonist among the American artists. He was the one who designed the lettering on the plaque right at the Manhattan society headquarters, in which he illustrated pages in combination of two colors. Frederick's style of big-head cartoon characters became so famous that they were constantly seen in most of the famous magazines during the time periods of 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s. These cartoons were published in magazines such as; Liberty, Colliers and life. His numerous works of posters and advertising cartoon were very successful and got an amazing array of styles for the Edison Company in the New York, which brought him fame. His work for the 1st World War endeavor got great praise for the use of all lower case hand lettering, whose character and warmth prevented the requirement for supplementary demonstrations. Frederick G. Cooper was not considered as the designer of the bold typeface cooper but he has influences others from his work to Oz Cooper (who illustrated the cooper fonts) and moreover an entire generation of cartoonists, poster designers and letterers (Leslie C., pp.33).

Frederick G. Cooper is among one of the original clip art cartoonist, who has also influenced other people in the same field through his work. He has designed numerous profusely demonstrated and attractive cartoons, serious posters, full-page comics, monograms and lettering examples. He was also famous for his work of designing clever monograms, which he designed for famous persons for instance; Dwight D. Eisenhower, Milton Caniff and ...