Major Felten

Felten was born March 19, 1904 in Canaan, Connecticut. He spent much of his life in Darien, Connecticut.{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}}

Felten became known for his posters and book illustrations during the 1930s to 1950s. Some of his posters were published by Davis Blue Artwork, a company founded by Robert Blue and Brian Davis.{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}}

Felten provided illustrations for the Ives Washburn 1931 edition of Baudelaire's translated poems The Flowers of Evil.{{Cite web |title=Record Flowers of evil / By Charles Baudeliare; translated by Lewis Piaget Shanks, illustrated by Major Felten {{!}} Collections Search Center, Smithsonian Institution |url=https://collections.si.edu/search/detail/edanmdm:siris_sil_987821?q=felten,+major&record=3&hlterm=felten,+major |access-date=2024-03-31 |website=collections.si.edu}}

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Category:20th-century American illustrators

Category:American poster artists

Category:1904 births

Category:1975 deaths

Felten produced an illustration in the style of Commercial Modernism for the January, 1934, issue of Ladies' Home Journal.{{Cite journal |last=Felten |first=Major |date=January 1934 |title=Fiction Illustration |url=https://jstor.org/stable/community.19304776 |journal=Ladies' Home Journal |pages=18}}

A Major Felten charcoal illustration was used as the basis of the design on a folding screen in a Darien, Connecticut, home featured in a 1936 article in Architecture Magazine.

In 1938, Felten produced illustrations of dancers Barton Mumaw{{Cite web |title=Jacobs Pillow : File : Barton Mumaw [Barton Mumaw BM003] |url=https://archives.jacobspillow.org/Detail/collections/8710 |access-date=2024-03-31 |website=archives.jacobspillow.org}} and Ted Shawn. He produced posters for the Jacob's Pillow dance festival, and maintained correspondance with the organization from 1947 to 1971.{{Cite web |title=Jacobs Pillow : File : Major Felten [Major Felten 55 ] |url=https://archives.jacobspillow.org/Detail/collections/10055 |access-date=2024-03-31 |website=archives.jacobspillow.org}}

Felten produced the cover illustration of the brochure for the 1940 Railroads at the New York World's Fair by the Eastern Railroad Presidents Conference.{{Cite web |title=Railroads at the New York World's Fair - www.rgusrail.com |url=https://www.rgusrail.com/fairs/erpc_rnywf1940/01.html |access-date=2024-03-31 |website=www.rgusrail.com}}{{Cite web |title=Record Railroads at the New York World's Fair, 1940 {{!}} Collections Search Center, Smithsonian Institution |url=https://collections.si.edu/search/detail/edanmdm:siris_sil_1007663?q=felten,+major&record=1&hlterm=felten,+major |access-date=2024-03-31 |website=collections.si.edu}}

Also in the 1940s, Felten illustrated several books by Helen Dore Boylston, including her Carol Page{{Cite news |last=B. |first=E. L. |date=July 16, 1944 |title=Fledgling Actress; CAROL ON BROADWAY. By Helen Dore Boylston. Illustrated by Major Felten. 222 pp. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. An Atlantic Monthly Press Book. $2. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1944/07/16/archives/fledgling-actress-carol-on-broadway-by-helen-dore-boylston.html}}{{Cite book |last=Boylston |first=Helen Dore |title=Carol plays summer stock |publisher=Little, Brown and company |edition=First |location=Boston |publication-date=1942 |lccn=42019681}} and Sue Barton{{Cite book |last=Boylston |first=Helen Dore |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vUbhAAAAMAAJ |title=Sue Barton, Neighborhood Nurse |date=1949 |publisher=Little, Brown |language=en}} series.

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