Past Masters

Join us July 11-17 in Phoenix, Arizona for the 2011 Convention!

Master Penmen from the
Golden Age of Ornamental Penmanship

Portraits and biographical information taken with permission from
Michael Sull’s "Spencerian Script and Ornamental Penmanship, Volume I"

The days of practicing oval exercises upon a blackboard are gone now, as are the common school inkwell and pen. But we should know about the penmen of the past - about who they were, what they did, and more significantly, what they have left for us - the new stewards of penmanship. The penmen and their times are part of our heritage. This, we should remember.

-- Michael R. Sull

Click the images below for biographical information
on these Master Penmen from the past.

Joseph J. Bailey 1879-1970	Willis A. Baird 1882-1954	Henry P. Behrensmeyer 1868-1948	Elmer Ward Bloser 1865-1929
Edwin L. Brown 1869-1958	Clinton C. Canan 1873-1904	Mary L. Champion	Clinton H. Clark 1864-1937
Francis B. Courtney 1867-1952	William E. Dennis 1860-1924	Henry W. Flickinger 1845-1925	G.A. Gaskell 1845-1886
Charleton V. Howe 1870-1952	Lloyd M. Kelchner 1862-1948	Earl A. Lupfer 1890-1974	Louis Madarasz 1860-1910
Edward C. Mills 1872-1962	Austin Norman Palmer 1860-1927	Fielding Schofield 1845-1924	Lyman P. Spencer 1840-1915
Sara L. Spencer 1832-1923	Frederick W. Tamblyn 1870-1947	Albert D. Taylor 1863-1898	Charles Paxton Zaner 1864-1918