Edward Shenton

Raised in West Philadelphia, Shenton studied art at the school of the Philadelphia Museum of Art before serving in World War I. In 1919, his drawings from the front were published in the Philadelphia Record. After returning from the war, Shenton enrolled in the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts where he studied illustration with George Harding and Thornton Oakley, both students of Howard Pyle.

During a long and successful career, Shenton illustrated more than 130 books, including F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night. He was the in-house illustrator for Scribner’s Magazine in the early 1930s, producing covers and dozens of interior illustrations in the depths of the Depression