Walt Louderback (1887-1941) "mailed it in" during much of the 1920s and 1930s when he was living in France and his publisher customers were in the United States. Very little in the way of biographical information regarding Louderback seems to be on the Internet other than here along with this snippet on the Kelly Collection site.

I find this unfortunate, because Louderback was successful in his day and painted in a thick, direct style that I am fond of: Many of his illustrations from the 1920s and early 30s remind me of those by Dean Cornwell, Saul Tepper and Mead Schaeffer.

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[Image]A magazine illustration of a casino scene, probably from the 1930s.

[Image]More of a poster style such as Cornwell began to take up towards 1930.

[Image]Shades of John Singer Sargent's El Jaleo!

[Image]This reminds me of Schaeffer's Count of Monte Cristo illustration style.

[Image]I wish I had more information on this one, because I can't reconcile the long hair and the otherwise circa-1930 painting style.

[Image]From the Kelly Collection, a book cover illustration.

[Image]The Homecoming.

[Image]This last image shows a modernist style Louderback tried near the end of his career.