| Über: | Irma Campbell was one of American Vogue's workhorse illustrators of long standing. She was probably born around 1890. She joined the magazine around 1913 or 1914.
In 1923, in an anniversary issue of Vogue, the publisher Conde Nast mentioned that she had drawn many changing silhouettes of the mode for the magazine, both in Paris and New York.
In 1923, when Vogue did a spread on it's accredited illustrators, with photographs and sketches, Irma Campbell was included. She mentioned that her rabbit Peter and her dog Old Sock were her real interests. She was stationed in New York.
Not much is known about her, except that she had for a number of years, handled the most practical and necessary of duties at the magazine, supplying the mass of stock illustrations required to accompany articles on beauty, travel, furniture, lifestyles, etc. which Vogue always needed. |