A few months ago my brother Richard and I came across this item as we were going through Dad's study in the house in Huntsville. The portfolio of loose sheets contains illustrations by Charles Edmund Monroe, Jr. [1917-1999], an artist who went by C.E. Monroe, Jr. The group includes a page giving a bit of information about Huntsville "Firsts" and six illustrations. I have included these below.
Monroe's Find-A-Grave listing includes an obituary with the following information:
"Mr. Monroe was a nationally renowned illustrator, with covers and illustrations in Life, Colliers, Field and Stream, True, Progressive Farmer and Redbook magazines. He was also a successful wildlife and sporting artist, as well as a portrait artist. He donated the portrait of Wernher Von Braun at the VBC. He was honored in 1994 by the Huntsville Museum of Art at the Spring Gala."
Monroe also designed covers for Tarzan books published by Grosset and Dunlap in the 1940s and 1950s. His interest in the city's history is further exhibited by his cover design and layout of the Huntsville Heritage Cookbook published in 1972.
He is buried in Maple Hill Cemetery in Huntsville.
Source: Find-A-Grave
The FictionMags Index includes these illustrations in various magazines:
- Monroe, C(harles) E(dmund), Jr. (1918-1999) (about) (chron.)
- * Golden Trout, (cv) True #215, April 1955
- * [front cover], (cv) Collier’s November 13 1953
- * [illustration(s)], (il) Redbook Magazine October 1942
- * [illustration(s)], (il) Collier’s Sep 10, Dec 24 1949, Jan 14, Jan 21, Mar 4, May 13, Sep 9, Sep 23 1950, Feb 24, Jun 16, Dec 29 1951, Feb 9, Oct 11, Nov 8 1952
Nov 11 1955, Jun 8 1956 - * [illustration(s)], (il) True #285, February 1961
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