Joe Bowler: Final Installment

We've spent a good, long time posting illustrations by artist Joe Bowler - a man who knew how to anchor a pretty face with a strong but feminine eyebrow.

Here's the last of the Bowler collection of extraordinary brows.

And you can always relive the glory of Bowler artwork we've already shared by clicking on the Joe Bowler tag in the sidebar.

Joe Bowler Offers Some Midsummer Nights' Dreams

We haven't paid homage to the patron saint of eyebrow illustration since before Memorial Day last May.

So without further fuss, let's contemplate at the Shrine of St. Joe:

Joe Bowler.

Joe Bowler Starts the Weekend

Well here in the US of A it's Memorial Day weekend. Monday will be a holiday so you'll need extra doses of eyebrows to get you through. What better way to start the weekend than with our friend, illustrator Joe Bowler?

More Joe Bowler Illustrations

We have spoken of illustrator Joe Bowler and shown you an introductory sampling of his treatment of the female brow.

Now feast on some more.

Introducing Joe Bowler

Joe Bowler (b. 1928) sold his first illustration to Cosmopolitan at age 19, in 1947. His stock in trade for a couple of decades was the romantic story art that makes the major women's magazines of that era so great to peruse - you know the ones...Wedding Gown For Sale: Never Worn, and so on. Good Housekeeping (what a concept!), McCall's, Ladies' Home Journal, the Saturday Evening Post, Redbook...

And he did ads. Philip Morris, Pepsi, La-Z-Boy. He ended up hospitalized with polio at age 30 but has continued on and is a successful painter of oil portraits and saccharine vignettes (little kids with puppies, crap like that). But we forgive him, because in our book of illustrators, Joe Bowler is the King of the Eyebrow. And that's not a coronation we perform casually.

So here are a few to get started with. There will be many more, we promise!