Ross, Alex [American illustrator, 1909-1990]

One of the top story and cover artists from the 1940s through the 1960s. Cover work included Collier's, Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal. His first big sale was for Good Housekeeping, a cover assignment that would be repeated for that title 130 times in a dozen years. In addition to story work for these slicks, he created story art for them and also for Cosmopolitan, McCall's, Woman's Home Companion, Reader's Digest. Book art for This is the Rosary, Saints; Adventures in Courage, The Foundling, The Father Gilbert Prayer Book. His facility with depicting adorable children or beautiful women made him in demand for advertising work. Awarded an honorary Master of Arts by Boston College in 1953