Donald Teague
1897-1991
BORN IN
Brooklyn, New York
KNOWN FOR
Western genre illustrator, landscape and harbor paintings
NAME VARIATIONS
Edward Dawes, Edwin Dawes
Born in Brooklyn, New York on Nov. 27, 1897, Donald Teague studied at the Art Students League in NYC under George Bridgman, Dean Cornwell, and Frank DuMond and, after serving in WWI, with Norman Wilkinson in England.
For 35 years he was one of the nation’s top magazine illustrators; his work appeared in Saturday Evening Post, Colliers, McCall’s, Woman’s Home Companion and others under the pseudonym Edwin Dawes (not to be confused with the landscape painter Edwin Dawes (1875-1945). In 1958, he gave up commercial work to concentrate on fine art. His paintings and illustrations are primarily of the Old West.
