American illustration

How did artists like Norman Rockwell, Austin Briggs, Jon Whitcomb, and others create the believable unique faces that can tell a whole story by themselves? In a magazine cover, like those by Rockwell and Stevan Dohanos, the image, with its setting and, most of all, its characters, must convey an anecdote without any help from words. So each face must be carefully crafted to do its part in creating the drama⸺or comedy.

CHARLIE DYE (American, 1906-1972) The Big Game, American Weekly cover Oil on board 20 x 18 in. Signed lower right - Available at 2010 August Signature...

The 1950s and ’60s were a time when most wanna-be illustrators wanted to be Bob Peak. It was also the moment when illustration was at a crossroads. Would it continue to merely serve or illuminate a text, or would it say something more? Since the emerging editorial themes (war, peace, race, etc.) were more socially and metaphorically charged, the substance and style of illustration could no longer be entirely realistic. Certain levels of abstraction were filtered into the Amer

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Medieval Merry Christmas by American illustrator J.C. Leyendecker | The Saturday Evening Post, December 25, 1926. From the turn of the last century up through the mid-1930s, the American public came to anticipate Leyendecker’s New Year's, Easter, Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, Christmas and other holiday covers for the Saturday Evening Post.

Painting - Mead Schaeffer

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A young WWI soldier writes a letter home in this intimate scene by J.C. Leyendecker. The important work was featured on the October 6, 1917 cover of the Saturday Evening Post. Leyendecker's poignant WWI era works inspired Americans to support the cause. Among the most important American illustrators of his age, Leyendecker is highly collectible ~ America, Fine Art, Illustration, Oil on Canvas, 20th Century ~ M.S. Rau Antiques