Fred Eng (1917-1995) | Food Illustrations, n.d. | Illustration for unknown purpose | Gouache on paper | Norman Rockwell Museum Collection, gift of the Eng Family, NRM.2012.4.89         Lately I’ve been inundated by a variety of work that I would like to call yummy art—art that pictures edible

Frank X. Leyendecker (1878-1924) | Poster illustration submission for Century magazine Midsummer Number Contest, 1896 | Gouache on paper | Private Collection   This young lady is a charmer.* On her lap is an open copy of the magazine the poster she adorns pitches. What a lovely dream: read this

Norman Rockwell (1894-1978)| Liberty Bell (Celebration), 1976 | Cover illustration for American Artist (July 1976) |Oil on canvas | Norman Rockwell Museum Collection, NRM.1988.1 On one of my first days at the Norman Rockwell Museum someone presented me with the following statement, “Above all else, Norman Rockwell was a salesman.”

Amos Sewell (1901-1983) | Independence Day, n.d. | Story illustration for an unidentified publication | Oil on board | Shhboom Illustration Gallery In the 19th and 20th centuries, many American towns had a town square or park where public events and community gatherings took place. European town squares might be

            In the 1930s, despite the Depression, there was a boom in western states travel in the United States. There were a number of factors that helped to influence this increase: federally subsidized highway and road construction; the low cost of vacationing in the country’s national

      While living in France between 1906 and 1913, Arthur Burdett Frost created a series of drawings about a beleaguered dog named Carlo.* The compiled drawings of Carlo, published in 1913 by Doubleday, were read as episodes of the dog’s life. Frost’s skill in depicting motion and sequence, would

      Actor and comedian Bob Hope had an extremely recognizable face with his long thin nose, well-defined jaw with its cleft-chin, and expressive eyes and eyebrows. Hope could manipulate his features to give emphasis to his cracks and quips. Norman Rockwell was commission to create this portrait of Bob

Victor Coleman Anderson was the son of the Hudson River School painter, Frank Anderson (1844-1891). Frank Anderson died when Victor was eight years old, so except for inheriting native talent, there was little passed from father to son in terms of art. Victor Anderson’s primary training was at Pratt Institute in

          Recently one of the students in the graduate class in Illustration Practice Stephanie Plunkett and I are teaching at MICA in Baltimore, asked why Leyendecker would have used a caged cupid kissing a pretty woman for an Easter week cover illustration for the Saturday Evening Post? After

Between Longfellow’s poem and the American history classes we experienced in elementary school, most of us know about Paul Revere and his actions at the start of the American Revolution. Like “Paul Revere’s Ride” the illustrations created to accompany Longfellow’s 1860 poem have helped to shape our perceptions of the story. The