Unknown Artist The Curse of Capistrano, 1919 Cover illustration for “The Curse of Capistrano” by Johnston McCulley in All-Story Weekly (August 9, 1919) Nearly a hundred years ago the pulp story writer, Johnston McCulley (1883-1958), created the masked character of Zorro, the secret identity of the nobleman, Don Diego de la Vega,

    C. Coles Phillips (1880-1927) Holeproof Hosiery, c. 1920s Advertising illustration for Holeproof Hosiery Company Seeing a woman’s leg from her ankles to above her knees was once a rather daring notion. In the early 1920s, illustrator C. Coles Phillips was producing advertising illustrations for the Holeproof Hosiery Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. These ads featured

  Jessie Willcox Smith  (1863-1935) ‘Then the Scholar’ With eyes severe, and hair of formal cut.’ 1908-09 Black and white poem illustration for ”The Seven Ages of Childhood” by Carolyn Wells in Ladies’ Home Journal (April 1909) and color version of illustration in Carolyn Wells, The Seven Ages of Childhood (New York: Moffat, Yard &

Often there is a permeable line between illustration and art. Illustration is created for use in a story, advertisement, or as a cover image and is therefore intended to be seen in reproduction; art is sometimes made without a specific purpose and while it might be reproduced, it is intended to be seen and experienced

John LaGatta (1894-1976) Susie Sipley- The Soda Fiend, 1921 Cover illustration for Judge (September 5, 1921) but also a story illustration for “Susie Sipley-The Soda Fiend” by Gelett Burgess   You might remember the Exploring Illustration essay, “S.O.S. Means Save on Sugar” – The Campaign Against Sugar in the United   States written by Daniel S.

Nina Allender (1872-1957) Child-Saving is Womans Work, 1914) Cartoon published in The Suggratist (July 25, 1914)) Sewall-Belmont House & Museum, Washington, D.C. Trained as a painter at the Corcoran School of Art and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, in 1913 Nina Allender turned her art talent to support women’s suffrage.*  At the request

    Shirley Smith (dates unknown) Jacket design for Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, first edition (New York: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1960) Harper Lee’s powerful drama, To Kill A Mockingbird was first published on July 11, 1960. The original dust jacket was designed by Shirley Smith.*  By placing the story’s oak at

Fred Ludekens (1900-1982) The Green Hills of Earth, 1947 Story illustration for Robert A. Heinlein’s “The Green Hills of Earth,” in The Saturday Evening Post (February 8, 1947) Oil on canvas Heinlein Society, © Virginia Heinlein Author Robert A. Heinlein was delighted to have sold a science fiction short story to The Saturday Evening Post

Robert Robinson (1886-1952) [Joy Ride]Cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post (January 11, 1913) Robert Robinson’s cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post reveals his ability to entertain through humor. Tickling the funny bone is the divergence of emotion expressed by the elderly man and his wife as they speed along on a

John Alcorn (1935-1992)The Green CurtainIllustration for book jacket for Eudora Welty’s A Curtain of Green & Other Stories (New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1980)India ink with flat color overlay   Every time I see this book jacket illustration,* I notice the image and I stop to admire its lusciousness. When I look at it, it’s