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Samuel Bernard Schaeffer was born in 1905. He was trained at the Art
Guild and the New York Evening Industrial School of Art. He completed
over 200 book jackets and bindings for 35 different publishers. He
illustrated three books: The Book of American Presidents, Lotus and
Chrysanthemum and The Book of American Presidents. He published two
books on nudes the first being Morning Noon Night (1937) and
Pose Please (1936). Morning Noon Night featured mostly female s
that were engaged in household activities. He took the mundane, put his
stamp on it and made it beautiful.
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