With its proximity to the cultural hub of New York City and its quieter suburban and rural landscapes, Connecticut was fertile ground for artists and writers in the period of Modernist movements between 1913 and 1979. Many of these cultural figures are well known through biographical and critical studies. Creative Places seeks to show how place played a significant role in creative work, and how in turn the artists and writers influenced communities in Connecticut.
Edmund Marion Ashe Jr.
Comic Art, Illustration
1908 – 1986
- Biography/Description of Work
Ashe followed in the footsteps of his father, a painter, illustrator, and founding member of the Silvermine Artists Guild who had bought a country home in Norwalk in 1905. Ashe Jr. went by Ed or Edd M. Ashe. His family moved to Pittsburgh in 1921, and he went to college at Carnegie Institute where his father taught. After graduation, he obtained work as a commercial artist, and by 1931 moved back to the Norwalk house, using it as a base for forays into Manhattan to try to sell his illustrations. Ashe worked as a muralist for the WPA project in the mid-1930s, and drew comics for New York publishing houses such as DC Comics, Dell, Fawcett, beginning in 1939. He also provided pen and ink illustrations for pulp magazines in the 1940s, and drew syndicated comic strips in the 1950s. He remained at the Norwalk family house on Wolfpit Avenue until 1960 when he and his family moved to New Milford.
- Sources view
- Uconn database, http://users.rcn.com/fido.javanet/edashe.html, http://strippersguide.blogspot.com/2012/06/ink-slinger-profiles-edd-ashe.html, http://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/19/nyregion/the-view-from-westport-during-a-renovation-a-mural-is-rediscovered.html https://www.pulpartists.com/Ashe.html
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