Charles Squires
1883-1970

Known primarily as an illustrator, Squires first studied with master illustrator Howard Pyle. He then studied at the New York School of Art with W.M. Chase, Robert Henri, Frank Dumond, F.F. Louis Mora, and Kenneth Hays Miller. Squires was a charter member of the Society of Illustrators and was first published at age 26. He was a a frequent contributor of sentimental material to such publications as Life, American Magazine, Argosy, Collier’s, Delineator, Harper’s Judge, and The Ladies Home Journal, and for a number of books published by Century Company, Charles Scribner’s Sons, and Doubleday and Company.