| General info : | | Porter Woodruff (born on July 18, 1894 in Knoxville, Tennessee (USA) - died 19 October 1959 in Hammamet, Tunesia (aged 65)) was an American painter and illustrator.
He was one of five American fashion illustrators Vogue magazine had based in Paris in the early 1920s.
He continued illustrating for Vogue through the 1930s, residing in New York City and Tunisia as well as Paris.
Besides Vogue, he contributed covers to House & Garden magazine (another Condé Nast publication) around the time of the Great War, before moving to Paris. He also painted North African scenes. He set up his painting studio in Villa Sebastian and began exhibiting in 1934 in prestigious American galleries.
His relationship with Tunisia and especially with the city of Hammamet comes from the great friendship that bound him to Georges Sebastian (1896 - 1974).
Woodruff died on 19 October 1959 at the Sebastian House in Hammamet and was buried, according to his will, in his gardens. | |
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| General info : | Porter Woodruff (born on July 18, 1894 in Knoxville, Tennessee (USA) - died 19 October 1959 in Hammamet, Tunesia (aged 65)) was an American painter and illustrator.
He was one of five American fashion illustrators Vogue magazine had based in Paris in the early 1920s.
He continued illustrating for Vogue through the 1930s, residing in New York City and Tunisia as well as Paris.
Besides Vogue, he contributed covers to House & Garden magazine (another Condé Nast publication) around the time of the Great War, before moving to Paris. He also painted North African scenes. He set up his painting studio in Villa Sebastian and began exhibiting in 1934 in prestigious American galleries.
His relationship with Tunisia and especially with the city of Hammamet comes from the great friendship that bound him to Georges Sebastian (1896 - 1974).
Woodruff died on 19 October 1959 at the Sebastian House in Hammamet and was buried, according to his will, in his gardens. | Porter Woodruff (born on July 18, 1894 in Knoxville, Tennessee (USA) - died 19 October 1959 in Hammamet, Tunesia (aged 65)) was an American painter and illustrator.
He was one of five American fashion illustrators Vogue magazine had based in Paris in the early 1920s.
He continued illustrating for Vogue through the 1930s, residing in New York City and Tunisia as well as Paris.
He often signed with his monogram "PW" that can easily be misread as "RW" or "TW".
Besides Vogue, he contributed covers to House & Garden magazine (another Condé Nast publication) around the time of the Great War, before moving to Paris. He also painted North African scenes. He set up his painting studio in Villa Sebastian and began exhibiting in 1934 in prestigious American galleries.
His relationship with Tunisia and especially with the city of Hammamet comes from the great friendship that bound him to Georges Sebastian (1896 - 1974).
Woodruff died on 19 October 1959 at the Sebastian House in Hammamet and was buried, according to his will, in his gardens. | |
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