Harlan Tarbell

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Harlan Eugene Tarbell (1890-1960)

Harlan Eugene Tarbell (born February 23, 1890 in Delavan (Town) , USA, † June 16, 1960 in Elmhurst (Illinois) , USA) was an American illustrator , specialist book author and magician .

Life

Tarbell was born as the first of three children to Charles and Annie (née Orendorff). He spent his childhood in Groveland . The father traded in cattle and among other things sold horses to the Circus Hagenbeck-Wallace .

At the age of 11 Tarbell took a distance learning course in freehand drawing and at the age of 12 he was already drawing cartoons for a newspaper in Morton (USA). In Morton, Tarbell saw the first magician who inspired him to do magic. It was the magician Dante .

In 1911 Tarbell moved to Chicago to study full-time as an illustrator. He happened to meet the magic company Read & Covert, which immediately hired him to do the illustrations for the Illustrated Catalog of Superior Magical Apparatus .

At the same time, Tarbell attended the Art Institute of Chicago . After making some medical illustrations, he enrolled in the National College of Naprapathic Medicine . In 1922 he presented his work Natural Chemical Properties of Humans and thus obtained the title of Ph.D.

He worked for the company until 1941. In Chicago, Tarbell operated the company "Tarbell Systems Incorporated".

In 1920 he married Martha Beck. The marriage had two children.

In 1926 the Tarbells moved to Elmhurst.

meaning

Tarbell has made a name for himself in particular with his six-volume Tarbell Course in Magic . It is the most comprehensive textbook in the field of magic to date . It appeared in loose episodes in 1926 before it came out in book form in the 1940s. Since then the course has been reissued again and again. In addition, Tarbell has invented around 200 tricks.

Publications

  • Tarbell's Chalk Talk Book, 1920
  • Here's Power, 1923
  • How to Chalk Talk, 1924
  • The Original Tarbell Course in Magic, 1926
  • Chalk Talk Stunts, 1926
  • Chalk Talks for Sunday Schools, 1928
  • Crazy Stunts for Comedy Occasions, 1929
  • Tarbell Post-Graduate Service in Magic, 1930
  • Mississippi Minstrel First-Part, 1930
  • Ten Magical After-Dinner Stunts, 1930

Web links

proof

  1. ↑ Harlan Tarbell, Creator of Magic and Magicians by Eugene Gloye, 1993
  2. ^ Who's Who in Magic , Sphinx , November, 1932
  3. ^ Cover story in the US American journal Genii, Issue 7, July 1960
  4. ↑ Personalities in Magic , Volume 2, 2011, Magic Center Harri
  5. ↑ Gloye, Eugene : Harlan Tarbell, Creator of Magic and Magicians, 1993
personal data
SURNAME Tarbell, Harlan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tarbell, Harlan Eugene (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American illustrator, specialist author and magician
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Delavan (Town) , USA
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 1960
Place of death Elmhurst, Illinois , USA