Charles Martin

American (1910-1995)

Born in 1910 in Chelsea, Massachusetts, Charles Elmer Martin was a self taught, prolific and well respected painter, illustrator and designer. Martin moved to New York City in 1932 where he worked in the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Art Project as a teacher and supervisor until 1938 when The New Yorker began publishing his sketches. Martin’s work appeared in Time and Life magazines, Harper’s, The Saturday Evening Post, The Saturday Review, Punch, Esquire and The New Yorker. He also illustrated a number of children’s books for Bradbury Press, Random House and Greenwillow publishers.

Martin exhibited his work in a number of galleries and in the Brooklyn Museum. His works are held in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of the City of New York, Library of Congress and at Syracuse University.