• Jtarlt ~ri6e at ~uulll afu n J\6euue )l}ilmiugton, Jflcla fu nre !lecrmb,·r S, 1960 · Wilmington morning Nrtns Dean Cornwell, 68, Is Dead; MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1960 Muralist and Illustrator CRAFTSMEN'S EXHIBITION Dean Cornwell, sixty-eight, trator since 1?16, a~d was · ON VIEW AT ART CENTE muralist and illustrator, died awarded first ~mze for lllus~ra­ The Exhibition of Contemporary Craftsmen's :Work .whi yesterday in Roosevelt Hospital. tion~ by the \Yllmmgton Society opened at the Delaware ~rt Center in the Education Wmg He lived at 1021 Park Ave. of Fme Arts m 1919. Nov 28 will continue until Thursday. Among Mr. Cornwell's }:lest tional Academy of Design, the 'ceramics by Olin Russum, Verdelle Gray or Massachuset known works are sixteen giant ·'BN aq~ ~'B pa~TQ!qxa p-eq aH Rudolph Staffel of Pennsylvania, Oppi Untracbt. of New Yo panels in the Los Angeles Pub- Art Center of New York· City, and Mr. and Mrs. Weinmayr of Landenberg are mcluded. lie Library, depicting a pageant Pratt Institute, the Pennsyl­ Womens articles include scarfs, table mats. rugs, and w of California history, and an oil vania Academy of Fine Arts, the painting of the late famed war Wilmington Soci~ty of F~e hangings by Roberta Ayotte is to offer local and natio correspondent Ernie Pyle ~neel- Arts, the Art Inst1tute of Ch!· of New Jersey, recently of New- h t ing at a rille which had been cago, the Royal Academy of ark· Edith Conwell of Wilming- artist craftsmen a c ance _o s thrust into the ground as a London and the Whitney Mu­ ton' Lili Blumenthau, and Sue their crafts and encourage t grave marker. The palnting seum of American Art in New Butzow Goldberg of New York. development of better sta hangs in the Ernie Pyle ~emo- YOrk City. Local exhibitors are John ards of taste in crafts of tod rial at Indiana University. Won Gold Medal and Cathryn Mu~lins , who sho; Instructors at the Art Cent Other . He was awarded a certificate enamels and Silver; Mrs. · . d t Mural~ B ·t Nichols instructor at have for some bme stresse Mr. Cornwell also d1d ~ur~~:ls of honor by the Architectural Ul on ' r . l't for the Lincoln Memonal m League in 1938 and its gold the Art Center, who shows ha.nd importance o on~ma 1 Y a California, the county court medal for mural painting in wrought silver, an~ Mrs. Ed.1th authentic methods m these house in Nashville, Tenn., the 19!12. He also received a gold Conwell who exhib1ts cera~ICS, diums in the classes given • State omce Building in Nash- medal from the Allied Artists weaving and enamels. Mathilde the Center. Through su ville, the Eastern Air . .Lines of America. Ziegler, a new staff ~embe r ~! classes anyone in Wilmingt Building in New York C1ty, .the Mr. Cornwell was a member the !'-rt Center this year 1 may leran the processes used New England Telephone Bwld- and former president of the showmg enamels. the professional craftsmen ing in Boston, the Sp.r~gfie~d Society of Illustrators and the This novel and artistic display th' h'b·t·on Fire Insurance Co. Bwldmtr m National Society of Mural is featured m. t h e corn'd or .,a" j · IS ex== I I I= ::*--• - -----. Springfield, Mass., the League Painters. He was a fellow of the lery of the Education Wing and of Nations and the Americ~n Royal society of Arts of Lon­ is open to all class members International Labor Offlte m don. His clubs included the going to and from classes and Geneva, Switzerland. · century, Dutch Treat, London to the public on weekdays from Born in Louisville, Ky., Mr. Sketch and Chelsea Arts of 10 to 5 and evenings from 7:30 Cornwell studied at the Ch:icago London. to 10. Visitors may enter either Art Institute and began his ca- He maintained a studio at 33 through the main building or reer as a charcoal pencil artist w. 67th St. surviving are his the entrance to the Brown on Chicago newspapers. He had wife, Mrs. Mildred Kirkham Herald Trlb\lne--UPI Dean Cornwell painting in Wing. A suspended disp~ays been a leading magazine illus- Cornwell; a son, Kirkham show pottery in space v1s1ble Cornwell, and a daughter, Mrs. the California desert in from any angle to reveal the Patricia Bedford. the 1930s. fine form or the ceramic ware. Color notes enhance the glaze treatments and color schemes of the weaving. Purpose of this annual event .