The Giants of 20th Century – Similar names – Andre-Edouard Marty (A.E. Marty) vs. Charles Martin and J.C. Leyendecker vs. J.C. Haramboure

We have two groups of similar illustrators today. Actually, the style of each group is not very similar, so the only reason I put them together is that these two illustrators have the same Initials of first name and middle name. These two pair of names confounded me for a long time and I hope that the picture below will help you to distinguish them.

At first, let us learn something about A.E. Marty and Charles Martin. Andre-Edouard Marty is the full name of A.E. Marty, and he graduated from the Ecole des Beaux Art where Paul Iribe, Georges Lepape, and George Barbier were trained. His illustrations are very romantic and elegiac which is different from Charles Martin. Martin’s style changed a lot as time went on and he was also trained at the Ecole des Beaux Art but then went to the Academie Julian in paris.

Next is the introduction of J.C. Leyendecker and J.C. Haramboure. Leyendecker is German who immigrated to the USA at the end of 19^th century and Haramboure is French. Leyendecker is a really famous illustrator and the advertisement he drew are still used today. The other J.C. is not as famous as the J.C. Leyendecker, I can hardly find Haramboure’s birth date. But he is also a wonderful illustrator in the past.

At last, let’s look at the timeline of these four illustrators. Their names are colored in different tin-ct just like last blog about Georges and Pauls.

Fig. 7-1 the timeline of Marty vs. Martin & J.C. Leyendecker vs. J.C. Haramboure