Illustrator Stewart Rouse

Stewart Rouse
Stewart Rouse

Stewart Rouse was, for a period, a staff artist at Popular Science.  The magazine bio (February 1946) described Rouse as a “lanky Lincolnesque character”  of 6″ 4.5′ who attended the Chicago Art Institute.

Handy with metalwork tools as well as pen and ink, Rouse once built his own airplane.

Rouse was an artist of breathtaking ability–one who seemed destined to draw technical illustrations with heart from the very get-go in life.

Here is one of several gorgeous woodcut-like illustrations he produced for Pop Sci that recall Albrecht Durer:

Rouse Auto Illustration

By Lee Wallender

Deception, influence, fakes, illusions, themed environments, simulations, secret places, secret infrastructure, imagined places, dreamscapes, movie sets and props, evasions, camouflage, studio backlots, miniatures.

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