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Kenneth S. Fagg (May 29, 1901 – January 7, 1980)〔(ISFDB bibliography )〕 was a twentieth-century American commercial artist, perhaps best-known as a co-creator of the world's largest geophysical relief globe, exhibited at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair.〔Obituary, ''The New York Times'', January 11, 1980, p.79〕 Fagg was born in Chicago in 1901. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin. After graduation, he studied art at the Art Students League of New York. By the 1930s, Fagg had moved to Los Angeles and was working as an art director for 20th Century Fox.〔(AskArt: Kenneth Fagg )〕 In the 1940s, he settled in Chappaqua, New York, and became a member of the First Congregational Church of Chappaqua.〔 Fagg became a commercial illustrator, working for several prominent New York advertising agencies and providing illustrations for national magazines including ''Life'', ''Holiday'', and the ''Saturday Evening Post''.〔〔 In the mid-1950s he spent time at Thule Air Base in Greenland, and took aerial photographs, later used in his art projects, on Arctic flights with the Northeast Air Command.〔〔(Portfolio auction listing )〕 He was a cofounder of Geo-Physical Maps, Inc., which became a unit of Rand-McNally,〔 as well as a member of the Society of Illustrators and an exhibitor of the American Watercolor Society.〔〔 Several of his paintings are included in the United States Air Force Art Collection.〔(USAF Art Collection: Kenneth S. Fagg )〕 Fagg may be best remembered today for his relatively brief stint providing painted covers for a 1950s science fiction magazine. Recruited by art director Ed Valigursky, he provided the newly published ''If'' magazine with a dozen cover paintings in just over two years, part of a run of "stunning covers for ''If'' which immediately began to raise its circulation", including "wrap-around covers which remain stunning to this day".〔Mike Ashley, ''Transformations. The Story of the Science Fiction Magazines from 1950 to 1970'', 2005, p.47〕〔 He also provided covers for three novels in the Winston Science Fiction series.〔 In 2001, a ''New York Times'' review of a retrospective exhibition of futuristic art singled out Fagg's cover painting for the January 1954 ''If'', praising its depiction of "a glowing submarine metropolis under interconnected glass domes, painted in a cheerfully colorful, cartoonish style".〔(Yesterday's Tomorrows: Past Visions of the Future ), Ken Johnson, May 11, 2001〕 File:1954 04 if kenfagg.jpg File:1954 03 if kenfagg.jpg File:1953 11 if kenfagg.jpg ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kenneth S. Fagg」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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