Some illustrations may have more than one use. As you can see from the above information for Wyeth’s illustration of The Hunter, it was not used for its original intended purpose, but was published as a cover image the following year by different periodical and again a few years later

The task of composing the 1945 New Year’s cover of The Saturday Evening Post was delegated to artist Norman Rockwell. For a setting, he selected the fashionable Wedgwood Room of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York City.* Having moved from its original location (now occupied by the Empire State Building),

William Balfour Ker (1877-1918)|XMAS 1905, 1905|Cover illustration for Life magazine (December 7, 1905) In 1902 the Chicago architect Daniel Burnham finished construction of the Fuller Building in New York City; it was named after the company’s founder, George A. Fuller even though Mr. Fuller died two years before the building was begun.

While perusing an interesting website recently (https://ephemerastudies.org/), I noticed this cover for a baby book designed by Jessie Willcox Smith.* The cover illustration is composed of an upper and lower image separated by lines delineating moldings above and below a series of square blocks, whose faces are marked with the

J. C. Leyendecker sometimes referenced art by others in the construction of his illustrations, especially some of those he created for the covers of The Saturday Evening Post. While this fact is not remarkable in itself, what is note-worthy is that on a number of occasions Leyendecker used sculptural monuments

In the Great Depression life was tough for most everyone and any job was a good job. Sounds familiar, doesn’t it. In 1929, the recession hit in August, two months before the stock market crashed at the end of October. By the end of 1929, 3.14 percent of the American

  This week we explore an illustration of a night scene with a group of boys bundled in their winter coats standing and sitting around a blazing campfire on a frozen lake. Painted by Eugene Iverd as the cover illustration for February 21, 1931 issue of The Saturday Evening Post,

The Great War (1914-1918) necessitated sacrifices from American citizens and their luxurious way of life. Commodities, such as sugar, which had once been in abundance, became the focus of rationing for the greater good. Restrictions on sugar were especially pronounced due to the removal of Germany and the West and

One of the things that causes me to feel hopeful is that we are able to laugh at ourselves in the face of difficulties. During the middle of the great depression, the magazine Country Gentleman used a work by Frank Lea called Which Way to Prosperity? for its cover illustration The image is

With the celebration of Labor Day this past Monday, summer officially ended. That last holiday of the summer season also marks the return to school for those children who have not already returned to their desks and studies, as we can see in Jessie Willcox Smith’s cover illustration for the