Major Felten, also "Felton" (March 19, 1904 – November 1975) was an American visual artist and

illustrator An illustrator is an artist who specializes in enhancing writing or elucidating concepts by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text or idea. The illustration may be intended to clarify complicat ...

, active in the 1930s-1950s. He became known for his dramatic posters and book illustrations. Some of his posters were published by Davis Blue Artwork, a company founded by

Robert Blue Robert Dunlap Blue (1946 – January 22, 1998Art-Mart.com /ref>) was a painter noted for his images of pin-up girls in the 1980s and later his cowgirls of the New West series. He was the son of comedic actor Ben Blue. Blue's work precedes that of ...

and Brian Davis. He was born in Canaan, Connecticut and spent much of his life in Darien, Connecticut. His stark black and white illustrations for the Ives Washburn 1931 edition of Baudelaire's translated poems The Flowers of Evil are especially worth noting, as exemplars of art deco aesthetics.

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American illustrators American poster artists 1904 births 1975 deaths {{US-illustrator-stub