Harry Grant Dart
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Harry Grant Dart is some what of a mystery to me. There is nothing much on the web about him. It is hard to explain why he has been completely forgotten in an age where absolutely everybody who was anybody is undergoing some sort of rediscovery. He seems to have been a prolific magazine illustrator. While he must have drawn more than these incredible aircraft, I don't know about it yet. I'm tickled by the range- from cheap bathos to the silly humor of the cartoons. Later he drew covers for magazines about WWI aces with "ordinary" biplanes. Sometimes you recognize them by the daring perspectives. I sure would like to know more. I feel confident that a flying model will not happen in this millennium.
There is an incredible amount of detail crammed into large pictures, some of which occupied the two center pages of a bedsheet sized magazine. This is part of the fun. But it makes it hard to do justice to his pictures on the web, where every electron counts. Enjoy! |
| "A Transport of the Future"
Literary Digest , April 26 1919 by way of Yesterday's Tomorrows by Joseph J Corn and Brian Horrigan |
I don't know anything about this one,
but it's fine. Part of the fun of these is in the detail, So if you want
to look at a big copy click the ....
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Harper's Weekly July 20 1907 |
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| "The
Flying Dutchman"
unknown |
| No Title
w/ a detail. Cover of Harper's Weekly June 11 1910 |
| "What's
to Hinder"
Life 1910 by way of Yesterday's Tomorrows by Joseph J Corn and Brian Horrigan Note the original is much clearer than this. d/s |
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