{"id":241,"date":"2016-05-06T02:38:18","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T02:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/?page_id=241"},"modified":"2016-05-06T02:38:18","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T02:38:18","slug":"pattersons-other-talents","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/art-collection\/russell-patterson-streets-of-les-andeleys\/pattersons-other-talents\/","title":{"rendered":"Patterson&#8217;s Other Talents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As his fame in illustration grew, Patterson branched his skills outword, using his experience from studying architecture at McGill University<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and drawing interiors for department store circulars<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0to design sets for plays both on and off Broadway. He took this experience and started to work in Hollywood for both Fox and Paramount studios<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, creating sets and costumes for characters. Patterson also created the New York Cartoonists Society with contemporaries and friends in the early 1950\u2019s, serving as President from 1952-1953.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Even after he stopped drawing due to arthritis in his 60\u2019s, he continued to train young artists, allowing his vision of the \u201cflapper\u201d the vivacious, leggy woman to carry forth into a\u00a0new generation.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/art-collection\/russell-patterson-streets-of-les-andeleys\/\">Back to the main page on\u00a0Russell Patterson, Street Les Andeleys<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/art-collection\/russell-patterson-streets-of-les-andeleys\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-36\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2016\/05\/Russell-Patterson-Street-in-France-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Russell Patterson Street in France\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As his fame in illustration grew, Patterson branched his skills outword, using his experience from studying architecture at McGill University and drawing interiors for department store circulars\u00a0to design sets for plays both on and off Broadway. He took this experience &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/art-collection\/russell-patterson-streets-of-les-andeleys\/pattersons-other-talents\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"parent":235,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-241","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/241\/revisions\/242"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}