Charles twelvetrees biography

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1935-40 Double Crossed Print, Charles H. Twelvetrees Illustrator 1872-1948

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Charles H Twelvetrees, became famous for his funny Child depicted illustration, was on is apogee in the 1900s, this illustration found on a backing from another print, Title (in the center) " Double Crossed" as viewer we wonder why, LOL, on the lower right U.R.C made in USA and on the lower left sign C.Twelvetrees.
Preserved in this condition made this print so bright and very desirable for collectors.

Charles H. Twelvetrees was born in Utica, New York in 1872 and died in New York City in 1948. Early in his career he was a portrait artist but there is no record or photos of his portraiture. He began illustrating postcards around 1905.
Charles was married three times. His first wife committed suicide on Christmas night 1902 after a quarrel; she was 25, he was 29. He married again and had a child, (Clark), in 1905 with his second wife, Rose. His third wife, Vera is known only from census records in the 1940's. There is no mention of family members in his obituary leading to some erroneous speculation regarding his life and career. The New York Times obituary indicated he was 60 when he was actually 15 years older. Charles Twelvetrees son Cl

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Charles H. Twelvetrees, is well-known to vintage postcard, and ephemera collectorsin general for his many illustrations, mainly of chubby-cheeked children, which often are shown with funny captions. I put up the two examples that I have from postcards below (cropped and cleaned up a little in Photoshop.) His work can also be found on magazine covers, in newspapers, on calendars, and as valentines of that era. To mention a couple of particular examples, he was the illustrator for a children’s story by Seymour Eaton, called “Prince Domino and ‘Muffles’ ” and he did a comic strip called “Johnny Quack and the Van Cluck Twins.” (Some accounts say Van Cluck Sisters which, unless the strip name was changed at some point, is incorrect. Images can be found online of the comic strip showing the last word in the title as “Twins” not “Sisters.”) It’s also interesting to note that the 1900 Federal Census shows Charles’ occupation as “portrait artist.”

After looking online for information about this artist (for the prior post) and finding conflicting information, which some others have also been questioning, namely the year of birth, that there was also a Charles R., that the father of Charle