Paul Ashbrook was a student of Frank Duveneck in 1900 and taught illustration from 1914 - 1919 at the Art Academy and the Ohio Mechanics Institution.

Paul Ashbrook was born in New York City in 1867.  He began his career in 1885 doing illustrations for Charles Klackner in NYC, and had a studio at the 10th Street Studio Building.  From 1900-1918, he headed the design department at Henderson Lithography Company in Cincinnati. He legally changed his name (Eschenbach) to its English translation, Ashbrook.  In 1919, he was a pall- bearer at Frank Duveneck’s funeral.  From 1920-29, he worked for the Strobridge Lithography Company, designing many of the Barnum & Bailey Circus posters.  From 1926- on he made regular painting and etching trips to Europe and Mexico.  He died of pneumonia while on a trip to Mexico.  He died in 1949 in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

Studied

ASL with William Chase, 1885; Cincinnati Art Academy with Frank Duveneck, 1900

Member

Cincinnati AC, 1900; MacDowell Soc.