01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #103

Amos Sewell (American, 1901-1983)

Peg-legged Captain

Oil on board

32 x 24 in. (sight)

Amos F. Sewell, (1901-1983), was born in Oakland, California. By 1921 he had a job as a bank clerk and he studied night classes at the California School of Fine Arts. In his spare time he drew unsolicited interior story illustrations and mailed them to pulp publishers. He sold his first drawings to Street & Smith.

After the financial crisis of 1929 Amos Sewell lost his job at the bank. In June of 1930 he shipped out of San Francisco on a lumber boat and traveled through the Panama Canal.

He arrived in New York City and visited Street & Smith in person in search of freelance illustration work. He drew dry brush interior story illustrations for many issues of Clues. He also found work drawing for Popular Publication's Horror Stories, and Terror Tales.

He studied at The Grand Central School of Art with Harvey Dunn.

In 1936 he moved to Westport, Connecticut.

In 1937 he began to get assignments from slick magazines such as Country Gentleman, and later for The Saturday Evening Post, for which he illustrated an ongoing series of stories by R.R. Annett that ran for over twenty years.

In the 1950s Sewell was busy doing advertising work for major advertisers.


Amos Sewell died in Norwalk Hospital at the age of eighty-two on October 30, 1983. More on Amos Sewell 

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