American illustration

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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…

Joseph Christian Leyendecker (American, 1874-1951) The Rescue of Theophilus Newbegin, The Saturday Evening Post - Available at 2017 November 3 American Art...

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

ELIZABETH SHIPPEN GREEN PAPER DOLL BOOKS #2 1906, watercolor and charcoal 23" x 14 1/2", signed lower left Harper's Monthly, December 1906 'The Mind of a Child' by Edward S. Martin SETTING THE TABLE c. 1900, pen and ink on illustration board 14" x 20", signed lower right THE FIVE LITTLE PIGS watercolor and charcoal […]

Norman Rockwell: Covering the Post Like most illustrators, Norman Rockwell worked within the realm of aesthetics, commerce, and technology. An astute visual storyteller and a masterful painter with a distinct, personal message to convey, Rockwell constructed fictional realities that offered a compelling picture of the

March 21 through June 14, 2015 Admired by Norman Rockwell as a master in the field, Joseph Christian Leyendecker (1874 –1951) was one of the preeminent American illustrators of the early twentieth century. Often remembered for his beautifully conceived posters and advertisements, particularly those featuring The Arrow Collar Man, he also created 322 covers for The Saturday Evening Post—one more than Rockwell’s 321. This gallery installation features a special selection of original paintings…

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

Edward Hopper, illustration, art, The Unknown Hopper, Norman Rockwell Museum