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ED VEBELL. How to Make a Movie. Illustration for an unidentified publication showing the filmmaking process from concept to reception. Pen, ink, and gouache on board with printed onlay. Image approximately 406x241 mm; 16x9 1/2 inches, on 15 1/4x25 1/4-inch board. Signed in lower right image. Adhesive residue remaining where onlays were removed, publication notations and crop marks. Mounted to matte and framed. Nd.
Vebell (1921- ) is an American illustrator, veteran, and Olympic athlete who attended the Chicago Institute of Art before enlisting.While serving in the Army, he was a contributing artist for Stars & Stripes magazine, working side by side with Bill Mauldin. His second major appointment was as courtroom artist for the Nuremburg Trials; his haunting portrait of Hermann Göring can be viewed at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. Over the decades following the war, Vebell designed 16 circulated postage stamps for the US Postal Service, and enjoyed frequent commissions from Reader's Digest, Sports Illustrated, and Time.
