Summer may be nearly over, but there is still time to enjoy playing in the waves at the beach before we head home from our summer vacations and back to school or work. That is clearly the message Clara M. Burd conveyed in her August 1922 cover illustration for the

Dohanos images tend to have a sense of humor and optimism as is evident in these two covers for The Post. On two different occasions he created images of billboard artists painting seasonal advertisements during the opposite time of the year.  The February 14, 1948 Post cover portrays billboard painters dressed warmly in

The cover illustration for the February 20, 1913 issue of the humor magazine Life, is titled “Ancient History.” It is a single panel cartoon, drawn in the style of a Greek vase decoration, red on black. At the center of the circular illustration is the image of an older woman

In the middle of the summer of 1883, Harper’s Weekly chose to describe and illustrate the deplorable living and working conditions found in immigrant homes in the tenements of New York City. The front page illustration Homes of the poor was created by Bror Thure de Thulstrup to illustrate the

                                                                                                                 When World War I erupted, James Montgomery Flagg was already a well known artist. Beyond the age for military recruitment, he fulfilled his nationalistic duty by creating patriotic posters for the war effort. This famous image created by Flagg encouraged recruitment for the United States Army.

Early in the fall of 1908, Collier’s Weekly’s cover showed a man and woman walking together along a foot path. Floating in the blue and white in the sky, above the masthead are the words in caps and red ink, “The Outdoor.” Read together with the weekly’s title, the appended

This New Yorker cover illustration was published on July 15, 1944 to commemorate the Allied armies D-Day invasion of Normandy. It was created by Rea S. Irvin, the art editor of the magazine, who also created many of the weekly’s covers during his long tenure at the magazine. Early in

In the fall of 1924, the cover of The Country Gentleman showed a bright-faced young woman dressed in her work-day apron with the sleeves of her blouse rolled up as she scrubs her wash.  Her face is lifted and her mouth open; over her ears are a pair of earphones

I have not been able to discover much about Sewell Collins, the illustrator of this ‘book number’ cover for Life magazine from 1907: he lived and worked in Chicago at least during the 1890s, and as this cover illustration shows, he also did work for New York concerns. From its

 R. O. Blechman is known for his distinctive use of line in his illustrations. Laid down with stops and starts, Blechman’s drawn lines breathe along with the characters they create. This line style may express nervous energy or, when emboldened with watercolor wash, speak to a three-dimensional form. Blechman’s linear technique