On this day, June 7, 1901, illustrator Amos Sewell was born in Oakland, California. While working at Wells Fargo bank as a mail boy, Sewell studied art at night. After moving to New York he continued to study at the Art Students League and then at the Grand Central School with illustrator Harvey Dunn. In the early 30s Sewell began working for the pulps and he sold his first illustrations to The Saturday Evening Post in 1937.