George L. Carlson
Overview
Illustrator
An Illustrator is a narrative artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text...
and artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
with numerous completed works, perhaps the most famous being the dust jacket
Dust jacket
The dust jacket of a book is the detachable outer cover, usually made of paper and printed with text and illustrations. This outer cover has folded flaps that hold it to the front and back book covers...
for Gone with the Wind
Gone with the Wind
The slaves depicted in Gone with the Wind are primarily loyal house servants, such as Mammy, Pork and Uncle Peter, and these slaves stay on with their masters even after the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 sets them free...
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A tribute published in the pages of the Bridgeport Telegram, Bridgeport Connecticut, September 27, 1962:
GEORGE CARLSON SERVICES FRIDAY
Services will take place Friday for George L. Carlson of 13 Shoreham Village drive, Fairfield, artist and caricaturist, who died yesterday in his home.
They will be conducted at 3 p.m.