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Biography

Jon Whitcomb was born in in Weatherford, Oklahoma, a far cry from the sophisticated world that he portrayed in his signature paintings of beautiful women and handsome men. His parents were both artists and art teachers, and their children began drawing long before they went to school. Even so, it took a long time for Whitcomb to begin envisioning a career in art.

He was an English major in college, making occasional drawings and cartoons for his school magazines, and supporting himself by playing the pipe organ for silent movies as well as for the Presbyterian Church.

Apparently his church career came to an abrupt end one Sunday morning when he mistakenly played a rhumba for the recessional.

It was during college that Whitcomb got his first paying art job, painting movie and vaudeville posters for the Palace Theater in Cleveland. After graduation he continued to paint posters, and eventually joined a commercial art firm where he really lea