
Rewind: A Conversation with Deborah McMahon Osterholtz, daughter of Franklin McMahon, ‘The Artist Who Drew the News’
Deborah McMahon Osterholtz is the daughter of the late Franklin McMahon, a Chicago artist whose extraordinary career as an artist-reporter broke new ground in the world of commercial illustration. Our conversation centered around magazine articles Franklin McMahon published in the early 1960s. How did he manage to get published in such high-profile magazines? How did he get access to the events he covered?













