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Image Gallery

Image credits:

Walter M. Baumhofer (1904-1987)
Quick (Trapped by a Cat), c. 1952
Illustration for Argosy Magazine (May 1952): 13-14.
oil on canvas
Society of Illustrators, Permanent Collection, 052.001
 

 

Stevan Dohanos (1907-1994)
The Coal Men, 1947
Cover illustration for The Staurday Evening Post (October 18, 1947)
oil on canvas
Society of Illustrators, Permanent Collection, 078.007
 

 

Charles Dana Gibson (1867-1944)
Her Heart Was in the Kitchen, 1904
Illustration for Collier’s Weekly (1904)
Ink on paper
Society of Illustrators, Permanent Collection, 039.014
 

 

Norman Rockwell (1894-1978)
No Swimming, 1921
Cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post (June 4, 1921)
oil on canvas
Norman Rockwell Museum, NRACT.1973.015
 

 

Norman Rockwell (1894-1978)
The Problem We All Live With, 1963
Illustration for Look (January 14, 1964)
oil on canvas
Norman Rockwell Museum, NRM.1975.01
 

 

Norman Rockwell (1894-1978)
Lemuel remembered his mother’s caution about waiting for prayer (Family Grace), 1938
Illustration for “Rural Vacation” by Jake Falstaff in the Ladies’ Home Journal (August 1938): 13.
oil on canvas
Norman Rockwell Museum, NRM.1984.03
 

 

Norman Rockwell (1894-1978)
She’s My Baby 1927
Cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post (June 4, 1927)
oil on canvas
Norman Rockwell Museum, gift of Mr. and Mrs. William M. Young, Jr., NRM.2007.06
 

 

1971-7Jessie Willcox Smith      (1863-1935)
Back to School Again, c. 1928
Cover for Good Housekeeping (October 1928)
watercolor and charcoal on paper
Delaware Art Museum, Louisa du Pont Copeland Memorial Fund, 1971-7
 

 

NRACT.1973.019Norman Rockwell (1894-1978)
Triple Self-Portrait, 1959
Illustration for cover of The Saturday Evening Post (February 13, 1960)
oil on canvas
Norman Rockwell Museum, NRACT, 1959; Licensed by Curtis Publishing Co., Indianapolis, IN
 

 

1912-50Howard Pyle         (1853-1911)
A Wolf Had Not Been Seen at Salem for Thirty Years, 1909
Illustration for “The Salem Wolf” by Howard Pyle in Harper’s Monthly Magazine (December 1909)
oil on canvas
Delaware Art Museum, Museum Purchase, 1912-50
 

 

038.001J. C. Leyendecker (1874-1951)
Couple on Deck Chairs, 1904
Illustration for cover of Collier’s (June 18, 1904)
tempera on board
Museum of American Illustration at the Society of Illustrators, 038.001
 

 

047.007Mead Schaeffer (1898-1980)
Blue Roadster, 1941
Illustration for the “Blue Roadster” by Corey Ford, in American Magazine (May 1941)
oil on canvas
Museum of American Illustration at the Society of Illustrators, 047.007
 

 

NRACT.1973.111Norman Rockwell (1894-1978)
Marriage Counselor, 1963
Illustration intended for The Saturday Evening Post, c. 1963 but unpublished; offered to Ladies Home Journal, 1972, but unpublished
oil on canvas
Norman Rockwell Museum, NRACT.1973.111
 

 

NRACT.1973.81Norman Rockwell (1894-1978)
New Kids in the Neighborhood, 1967
Illustration for “Negro in the Suburbs” by Jack Star, in Look ( May 16, 1967)
Norman Rockwell Museum, NRACT.1973.81
 

 

NRM.2008.18James Montgomery Flagg  (1877-1960)
She Sailed Majestically Past the Wretch, Followed Meekly by Septimus  1909
Illustration for Septimus by William John Locke (New York: John Lane Co., 1909)
Ink on paper
Norman Rockwell Museum, gift of Everett Raymond Kinstler, NRM.2008.18
 

 

Club-FellowJ. C. Leyendecker (1874-1951)
Distinguished Couple, c. 1904
Cover illustration for The Club-Fellow & Washington Mirror
location unknown