Edgar Church

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Edgar Church (November 28, 1888 – 1978) was born in Connecticut, He was an artist who worked independently and eventually for the telephone company in Colorado illustrating commercial telephone book advertisements, precursors to Yellow Page ads.

Church kept thousands of miscellaneous periodicals in his Colorado home to use as references for his art. From these magazines he would clip images which he would store in one of hundreds of labeled boxes.

He was married twice and had one child with each of his wives. Church died in 1978 at age 89.