American illustration

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.

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CHARLIE DYE (American, 1906-1972) The Big Game, American Weekly cover Oil on board 20 x 18 in. Signed lower right - Available at 2010 August Signature...

These stunning images, from a Massachusetts exhibition, cast fresh light on the iconic illustrations of Norman Rockwell, revealing for the first time the study photographs the famed artist used as references for his work.

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″, […]

475 askART auction records for the artist: Joseph Christian Leyendecker. Joseph Christian Leyendecker (1874 - 1951) was active/lived in New York / Germany. 0 of 475 auction records are upcoming at auction.