Arthur David McCormick was born in Coleraine, County Londonderry and was educated
locally.
He
studied art at the Government School of Design in Belfast and later
in London, where
he worked for the English Illustrated Magazine.
In
1889 the Royal Academy exhibited his work and from 1892 to 1893 he
accompanied Sir
Martin Conway as artist on his expedition to Karakoram in the
Himalayas, and
later accompanied Clinton T. Dent to Central Caucasus, and his
illustrations appeared
in Conway's Climbing and Exploration in the Karakoram-Himalayas in 1894 (No traveller was ever accompanied by a better artist than Mr. McCormick, whose illustrations adorn this volume and whose water-colour sketches, some of which were recently exhibited, have received on all hands praise, both high and well merited. Conway) and in E.A. Fitzgerald's Climbs in the New Zealand Alps. (1896)
In
1895, McCormick produced his own book,
An Artist in the Himalayas.
He
worked in many parts of the world, including Africa, the
Netherlands,
New
Zealand, Norway and India, and he was a fellow of the Royal
Geographical Society.
In
1927 the tobacco manufacturers, John Player & Sons commissioned
him to paint the head
and shoulders of a sailor on their cigarette packets.
In
1895, McCormick produced his own book,
In
1927 the tobacco manufacturers, John Player & Sons commissioned
him to paint the head
and shoulders of a sailor on their cigarette packets.
