Edwin tunis biography

Edwin Tunis was born in Cold Springs Harbor, N.Y., on Dec. 8, 1897. He studied at City College in Baltimore and the Maryland Institute of Art and Design. He served as a pilot during World War II and then returned to Maryland Institute where he worked as a furniture designer and in advertising drawing layout copy.

His typographical design talent led to work for printers (brochures and direct mail material) and later to illustrating for Grosset and Dunlop and A.P. Putnam's Sons.

Edwin tunis biography

For Maryland's Tercentenary in 1934, he designed a commemorative stamp and drew a literary and historical mural map of the state, which was later shown at the 1939 New York World's Fair. He then became a radio announcer in Baltimore at WBAL, while continuing his second career, which had begun in 1918, as performer and stage and program designer with the Vagabond Players, a local theater group.

This association lasted until 1938 when Edwin Tunis and his wife, Elizabeth, whom he marrie