Martyl Langsdorf

March 16, 1917 (age 96)

Her mother was a painter and her father a portrait photographer. She earned a degree from Washington University in Saint Louis. Her husband, physicist Alexander Langsdorf, Junior. worked on the Manhattan Project and helped found the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. The Doomsday Clock illustration was the only magazine cover she ever created. Both before and after that project she painted abstract landscapes and murals. Her mural work includes an oil on canvas mural titled Wheat Workers for the Russell, Kansas post office, commissioned by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts, and completed in 1940. She died of complications of a lung infection in Schaumburg, Illinois.

Martyl Langsdorf

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Background

She was born in Saint Louis, Missouri.

Career

Her mother was a painter and her father a portrait photographer. She earned a degree from Washington University in Saint Louis. Her husband, physicist Alexander Langsdorf, Junior. worked on the Manhattan Project and helped found the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.

The Doomsday Clock illustration was the only magazine cover she ever created.

Both before and after that project she painted abstract landscapes and murals. Her mural work includes an oil on canvas mural titled Wheat Workers for the Russell, Kansas post office, commissioned by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts, and completed in 1940.

She died of complications of a lung infection in Schaumburg, Illinois.

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