HARVEY SCHMIDT

LIFE Magazine

Fourth Face of Eve

 

Fourth Face of Eve

 

From Today’s Inspiration March 21, 2014 (Leif Peng): In early 1958 at the request of LIFE magazine. Schmidt was tapped to illustrate the true story of a woman with multiple split-personality disorder; the famous "Fourth Face of Eve."

Of this commission, Schmidt said, “This was an unusually interesting assignment for me. Even though the situations to be illustrated were presented by the editors, the main problem - to project the distorted and compulsive world of a woman who had lost contact with reality - was great." (Continue reading…)

 

Original

As it appeared in LIFE Magazine

 
 

As it appeared in LIFE Magazine

 

National Purpose

In 1960, LIFE Magazine, in conjunction with The New York Times, published a series of essays on the topic of America’s “National Purpose”. Harvey’s artwork appeared alongside an essay by Adlai Stevenson entitled “Extend Our Vision to All Mankind”.

 
 

Illustrations for James Michener’s “Birth of Hawaii”

Published in LIFE Magazine, October 26, 1959

Received the New York Art Director’s Aware of Distinctive Merit
(Collection: Lore Noto)