Spring Farm Work—Grafting, is one of a variety of painted and illustrated images Winslow Homer created after the Civil War exploring American rural New England and upstate New York farm life: from the Veteran in a New Field, 1865 to Milking Time, 1875. 

In the 1880s, when Adelia Belle Beard drew this sweet image of the May Pole Dance, how innocent the young girls looked. Also particularly handsome are the floral borders of daffodils and apple blossoms that frame the image.

In his Dinotopia story series, author and illustrator James Gurney has created a lost island where dinosaurs survived whatever destroyed their species in our world and where people and animals work to live in a harmonic “peaceful interdependence.”  A Land Apart From Time is the first of four books Gurney

In 1907, illustrator Philip Goodwin created a painting for the Cream of Wheat Company advertising their breakfast cereal.  A Bear Chance depicts a large ravenous brown bear seated in a snowy clearing of a pine forest devouring a crate full of the healthy Cream of Wheat cereal. In the foreground

Artists Elizabeth Shippen Green and Jessie Willcox Smith met while studying illustration art with Howard Pyle at the Drexel Institute in Philadelphia. Both had extensive art training before their classes with Pyle and were already selling illustrations to the popular press.

Norman Rockwell (1894-1978)|April Fool: Checkers, 1943|Cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post (April 3, 1943)|Original art is in a private collection. With this 1943 April Fool cover illustration for the Saturday Evening Post, Norman Rockwell explored the visually incongruous as a way to produce a cover appropriate to celebrate April 1st.

Caption: Mr. Turps (who is doing a little job of painting in the studio). “Yes, sir: us painters has a many things to complain of.  What with these ‘ere trusts raisin’ the price of ile [oil] on us, and the difficulties of gettin’ our money when our jobs is done,

Charles Dana Gibson’s images of America, especially American women, from the 1890s through 1910, defined the age contemporaneously and retrospectively. Her poise, . . . . is one of 56 drawn illustrations Gibson created for Robert W. Chambers’ 1911 novel, The Common Law. The story chronicles the tribulations of a

Ralph Pallen Coleman was a native of Philadelphia and a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Art (then part of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and now an independent university called The University of the Arts). His first published illustration appeared in the Saturday Evening Post in 1915.  He went

The strong, tanned, clean-shaven countenance doing battle in the snow is Doc Savage, whose bronze skin, golden eyes and bronze hair were the reason for the appellation, “Man of Bronze.”