John Norment

Cartoonist, Author

1911 –

92

Who is John Norment?

John Murray Norment was an American illustrator, gag cartoonist, magazine editor, artist, and photographer.

Born in Lebanon, Tennessee, Norment attended the Art Institute of Chicago and the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts in 1933-34, and he exhibited in the Chicago No-Jury Society of Artists annual shows in 1934, 1936, 1937, 1939 and 1940. At the Iannelli Studio in 1935-36, he did textile designs for Montgomery Ward and posters for Carson Pirie. In 1935, he was employed as an assistant to the art director of Esquire, continuing with cartoons and ideas for Esquire from 1938 to 1942.

During World War II, Norment was a combat correspondent-photographer with the US Coast Guard in the North Atlantic, the Pacific and the China Sea. Returning to civilian life, he worked during the post-WWII years as a photographer for the Wittrup Studio in New York and Chicago's Sundblom Studio, where he photographed the Haddon Sundblom Santa Claus paintings for Coca-Cola.

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Born
Nov 28, 1911
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  • United States of America
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on July 23, 2013

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