John Sloan (1871-1951) [Girl driving Man in a Horse-drawn Carriage] Illustration for “ A No’count Cuss” by Jeannette H. Walworth in The Philadelphia Inquirer (March 3, 1895): 18.  A clipping of the newspaper shows that printed under the story’s title and author names, it was “From The N. Y. Evening Post”* Picture

  Winsor McCay (1867-1934)The Last Day of Manhattan, 1905Illustration published in the New York Herald (Sunday February 26, 1905): Magazine Section, p. 6. Under the title of the above illustration and below the picture are two more sentences describing what McCay’s image illustrates: (Above) Being some Consideration of the End of some Things as seen

Alice Barber Stephens (1858-1932) | Somebody has to raise everything you eat, Do Your Share, c.1917-18 | Crayon on paper on board | Cabinet of American Illustration, Prints and Photographs Div. of the Library of Congress, CAI, Stephens, no. 16 (D size)  As the United States began to mobilize to

William Steig (1907-2003); Untitled [turkey with fortune teller], 1992; Cover illustration for The New Yorker; Ink and watercolor on paper; Norman Rockwell Museum Collection, gift of Jeanne Steig, NRM.2010.53.1.18 It doesn’t take a genius to figure out what will be happening to many of the farmed and wild turkeys of

John McClelland (b. 1919); Ballet Class, 1951; Story illustration for Woman’s Day (November 1951) Woman’s Day magazine emerged in 1936 as a publication with a commercial focus based on values such as homemaking, food, nutrition, physical fitness, physical attractiveness, and fashion.  Similarly to McCalls, it shares traits with the other “Seven Sisters”

Frederick Richardson (1862-1937) | Lincoln Park, c. 1897 | Editorial cartoon illustration for the Chicago Daily News The American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907), with assistance from the architect Stanford White (1853 -1906), created the large Standing Lincoln public monument in Lincoln Park, Chicago, Illinois between 1884 and 1887.* The public

Thornton Oakley (1881-1953) | [Three ironworkers on girder with steam and rooftops in background, New York City] 1904 |Unused illustration probably created for Century Magazine | Charcoal and Chinese White on paper | Cabinet of American Illustration, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress; gift of Jay Last If asked to

 While there are days when we might not welcome the rain, in spring we need and expect precipitation–as the saying goes, ‘April showers bring May flowers.’ Because this saying and others like it are ingrained in our culture, illustrators have often used these adages as inspirations from which to hang illustrations. A typical example is

Jessie Willcox Smith (1863-1935) | Girl Washing Dishes, 1932 | Cover illustration for Good Housekeeping (November 1932) and again for the British edition of the magazine (January 1933) Between the late teens and March 1933, Jessie Willcox Smith created nearly 200 illustrated covers for Good Housekeeping magazine.*  Interestingly, from March

Mead Schaeffer (1898-1980) | Romance Under Shakespeare’s Statue | Cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post (April 28, 1945) William Shakespeare, Sonnet 55 Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone besmear’d with