Howard Brodie was a sketch artist best known for his World War II, Korean and Vietnam combat and courtroom sketches.
12 Facts About Howard Brodie
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Howard Brodie worked as a staff artist for Life, Yank Magazine, Collier's, Associated Press and CBS News.
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Howard Brodie briefly attended California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco.
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When World War II started, Howard Brodie was a sports artist for the San Francisco Chronicle.
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Howard Brodie enjoyed success as an illustrator of college football program covers.
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Howard Brodie became one of Yank magazine's best-known artists during the war.
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Howard Brodie sketched everything from Guadalcanal to the Battle of the Bulge, and had an uncanny ability to capture the emotions of his subjects and record a scene with great attention to detail.
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Howard Brodie put himself in combat situations many times and, while he never carried a weapon, worked as a medic when needed.
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About his war experiences and the differences he felt between WW2 correspondents and correspondents in the Vietnam war, Howard Brodie told the audience during a panel discussion given on the 18 September 1995 at the American University's School of Communication, the following anecdote.
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Howard Brodie was a CBS TV Artist-Correspondent during which time he produced illustrations of US Senator Robert Kennedy's assassin Sirhan Sirhan, and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
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Howard Brodie never fully severed his ties to the military and was a combat artist in Korea, French Indochina, and Vietnam.
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Howard Brodie's works are collected in Drawing Fire: A Combat Artist at War Pacific Europe Korea Indochina Vietnam and can be seen in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress, the New Britain Museum of American Art, and the San Francisco Olympic Club.