American illustration

The 1950s and ’60s were a time when most wanna-be illustrators wanted to be Bob Peak. It was also the moment when illustration was at a crossroads. Would it continue to merely serve or illuminate a text, or would it say something more? Since the emerging editorial themes (war, peace, race, etc.) were more socially and metaphorically charged, the substance and style of illustration could no longer be entirely realistic. Certain levels of abstraction were filtered into the Amer

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‘Top Hat and Tails’ was created in 1923 by Norman Rockwell in Regionalism style. Find more prominent pieces of genre painting at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.

Painting - Mead Schaeffer

Charlie Dye "The Big Game."

A young WWI soldier writes a letter home in this intimate scene by J.C. Leyendecker. The important work was featured on the October 6, 1917 cover of the Saturday Evening Post. Leyendecker's poignant WWI era works inspired Americans to support the cause. Among the most important American illustrators of his age, Leyendecker is highly collectible ~ America, Fine Art, Illustration, Oil on Canvas, 20th Century ~ M.S. Rau Antiques

How did artists like Norman Rockwell, Austin Briggs, Jon Whitcomb, and others create the believable unique faces that can tell a whole story by themselves? In a magazine cover, like those by Rockwell and Stevan Dohanos, the image, with its setting and, most of all, its characters, must convey an anecdote without any help from words. So each face must be carefully crafted to do its part in creating the drama⸺or comedy.

FRANK X. LEYENDECKER STRENGTH & SERVICE: CHEVROLET REVIEW 1922, oil on canvas 35" x 28", signed lower left Personal Efficiency: The How and Why Magazine, August 1922 COSSACK DRINKING BY CAMPFIRE 1905, oil on canvas 26" x 19 3/4", signed lower right Collier's Magazine, cover THE BLACKSMITH 1902, gouache on board 18 1/2" x 15", […]

La Toilette, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, captures an intimate moment between two ladies of leisure. One woman is gracefully seated in a velvet chair—a Victorian chaise lounge spotted in the background—as the other woman stands, gingerly affixing an ornament to the seated woman’s hair. The colors are warm and pleasing shades of peach, apricot, pink, and opal to suggest light and movement. Short, broken brushstrokes intersect to compose the bold contours of the female figures and the room…

JC LEYENDECKER BELLHOP WITH HYACINTHS 1914, oil on canvas 28" x 20", signed lower right Saturday Evening Post, May 30, 1914 cover FLIGHT OVER MANHATTAN (WHEN SHALL WE FLY?) 1907, oil on canvas 25 7/8" x 17 3/4", signed lower left Collier's, February 23, 1907 cover THE FOURTH OF JULY FLAGPOLE 1937, oil on canvas […]