Donald Teague


Donald Teague was an American magazine illustrator and watercolorist. He illustrated many magazines, and he painted in the art colony of Carmel-by-the-Sea.

Life

Teague was born in 1897 in Brooklyn, New York. He was trained at the Art Students League of New York.
Teague was a magazine illustrator throughout the 1920s and 1930s, initially for the Saturday Evening Post in New York City, and for Collier's in California by 1938. Teague was also an illustrator for McCall's and Woman's Home Companion.
Teague subsequently joined the art colony in Carmel-by-the-Sea, where he painted for four decades. By the time of his death, he had become known as "the dean of American watercolorists" according to The Los Angeles Times.
With his wife Verna, Teague had two daughters. He died on December 13, 1991 in Carmel-by-the-Sea, at age 94.