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Illustration Magazine #84. © 2023 by The Illustrated Press, Inc. http://www.theillustratedpress.com

THE ART OF PAUL BRANSOM

Paul Bransom (1885-1979) was widely known as the Dean of American Animal Artists. His work appeared on the covers of magazines like The Saturday Evening Post and served as illustrations of short stories in periodicals and in books. He provided the illustrations for some 45 books, most notably the 1912 edition of Jack London’s Call of the Wild and the 1913 edition of Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows.

THE ART OF PAUL BRANSOM

4 mins

THE ART OF FRANK MCCARTHY

Witnessing a Wild West show as a young boy was a crucial early influence that led Frank McCarthy to become a distinguished painter of Western historical themes. The excitement and emotion he felt that day stayed with him, and can be seen in the vivid action, color, and splendor that emanate from his paintings.

THE ART OF FRANK MCCARTHY

4 mins

THE ART OF WARD BRACKETT

Ward Brackett (April 2, 1914–December 14, 2006) was a gifted American illustrator, known for his work in paperback books and periodicals such as Reader’s Digest and Cosmopolitan.

THE ART OF WARD BRACKETT

2 mins

THE ART OF N.C. WYETH

For over 25 years, N.C. Wyeth was regarded as the foremost illustrator of books and magazines in the United States. His artwork for iconic tales of romance and adventure has become synonymous with the stories themselves, familiar to multiple generations of readers. Some of the best-known characters in literature have become nearly indistinguishable from the images he produced.

THE ART OF N.C. WYETH

10+ mins

THE ART OF CHARLES LASALLE

\"We have some artists in the family.\" I didn't know it at the time, but my future father-in-law Aiden E. LaSalle was a master of understatement.

THE ART OF CHARLES LASALLE

10+ mins

THE ART OF PRUETT CARTER

Pruett Carter was once recognized as one of America's top illustrators, during a time when illustrations were viewed primarily as easel paintings

THE ART OF PRUETT CARTER

10+ mins

THE ART OF RAYMOND JOHNSON

Raymond Sven (Ray) Johnson was a commercial illustrator who created iconic paperback book covers spanning all genres of fiction for Avon, Popular Library, Monarch and other publishers from the late 1940s through the early 1960s.

THE ART OF RAYMOND JOHNSON

10+ mins

"Blow some my way"

THE DELINEATION OF DESIRE IN 1920s COMMERCIAL ILLUSTRATION

"Blow some my way"

10+ mins

THE ART OF FRITZ WILLIS

Fritz Willis was born in Oklahoma in 1907, and raised in Boston.

THE ART OF FRITZ WILLIS

5 mins

THE ART OF WILLIAM OBERHARDT

Illustrator William Oberhardt (1882-1958) was born in Guttenberg, New Jersey, 1882.

THE ART OF WILLIAM OBERHARDT

10+ mins

THE ART OF EARLE K. BERGEY

Wouldn't it be great in the future if all pulp art fans could enjoy interplanetary travel with a devoted consort who looked like that pretty girl in high school biology class?

THE ART OF EARLE K. BERGEY

10+ mins

ROBERT OSONITSCH: The Illustrator's Photographer

A few of the major illustrators during the time of Steve Holland’s reign as king of the paperback covers shot their own reference photos.

ROBERT OSONITSCH: The Illustrator's Photographer

4 mins

THE ART OF ZOË MOZERT

Zoë Mozert was born Alice Adelaide Moser in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on April 27, 1907. Her father was Fred William Moser, a mechanical engineer of German ancestry, and her mother was Jessie Mable Hatfield of Ohio.

THE ART OF ZOË MOZERT

10+ mins

ART FITZPATRICK & VAN KAUFMAN

AF/VK. These four initials were my only clue as to the source of the fantastic Pontiac ad illustrations I found in my dad’s old National Geographic magazines.

ART FITZPATRICK & VAN KAUFMAN

3 mins

STEVE HOLLAND: The World's Greatest Illustration Art Model

Thomas Steven Holland was born January 8, 1925, in Seattle Washington, and died on May 10, 1997, at age 72 in Humboldt County, California following a brief illness. He was married three times and had two children from his first marriage, a son named Claude and a daughter, Nicole.

STEVE HOLLAND: The World's Greatest Illustration Art Model

4 mins

THE PULP ART OF PETER DRIBEN

Pulp magazines covered numerous genres, including fantasy, crime, Westerns, science-fiction, horror, action, and war. Cover art designs ran the gamut, but often many would feature half-naked young women—there was even a genre devoted exclusively to the subject—the girlie pulps.

THE PULP ART OF PETER DRIBEN

9 mins

MORTON ROBERTS: A Brief Life at Yale

Morton Roberts was one of the rising stars in the late 50's and early 60's.

MORTON ROBERTS: A Brief Life at Yale

6 mins

THE ART OF JOE BOWLER

American painter and illustrator Joe Bowler and his creations

THE ART OF JOE BOWLER

10+ mins

THE ART OF ROGER KASTEL

An American artist, most famous for creating the poster for the film Jaws

THE ART OF ROGER KASTEL

10+ mins

It's the shark that gets them.

Movies that made us to watch again and again

It's the shark that gets them.

10+ mins

THE ART OF NEYSA MCMEIN

Margary Edna McMein was born in Quincy, Illinois on January 25, 1888. (Various sources list her date of birth as 1890, and a few as 1889—once McMein moved to New York she decided to trim a few years from her age.)

THE ART OF NEYSA MCMEIN

10+ mins

THE ART OF J.F. KERNAN

There are over 450 paintings, drawings, and printed tear sheets by J.F. Kernan (1878- 1958) in the collection of the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

THE ART OF J.F. KERNAN

3 mins

ROBERT O. REID

From the late 1920s through the 1940s, Robert O. Reid’s work appeared regularly in Collier’s, Cosmopolitan, Ladies’ Home Journal, and The Saturday Evening Post. From August 1931 through December 1940, the prolific artist illustrated at least 35 covers for Collier’s, and at least 40 stories in that magazine alone.

ROBERT O. REID

4 mins

THE ART OF SAMSON POLLEN

Men’s adventure magazines (MAMS, for short) and paperback books were two of the best markets for illustration artists during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.

THE ART OF SAMSON POLLEN

10+ mins

THE ART OF RAY PROHASKA

Gratia “Ray” Prohaska was born in 1901 in Muo, a tiny fishing village on the Bay of Kotorska, in the town of Kotor, on the Dalmatian Coast in what would become Yugoslavia.

THE ART OF RAY PROHASKA

10+ mins

Warren Baumgartner (1894 - 1963)

Warren William Baumgartner was born March 15, 1894, in Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, which is a suburb south of St. Louis.

Warren Baumgartner (1894 - 1963)

8 mins

The Art Of Paul Shipper

In the last few years, Paul Shipper has become one of the most sought after illustrators in entertainment.

The Art Of Paul Shipper

10+ mins

The Art Of George Gross

George Gross was born of Hungarian Jewish ancestry on February 16, 1909, in New York City.

The Art Of George Gross

7 mins

Little Ellen's Big Talent and the First Tweets

They say she was as much a casualty of war as any shell shocked doughboy.

Little Ellen's Big Talent and the First Tweets

8 mins

Harold W. McCauley (1913-1977)

Harold William McCauley was born in Chicago on July 11, 1913. His father, William James McCauley, was born in Chicago on December 28, 1890, and was of Irish ancestry.

Harold W. McCauley (1913-1977)

5 mins

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Illustration Magazine Description:

PublisherThe Illustrated Press, Inc.

CategoryArt

LanguageEnglish

FrequencyQuarterly

ILLUSTRATION is a beautiful, educational, and scholarly magazine devoted to the history of American illustration art. Published quarterly and printed in full color, each issue features the highest quality printing, photography and color reproductions of original art available anywhere. The magazine is distributed nationwide to high quality bookstores, newsstands, comic book shops and specialty retailers. If you don't see the magazine at your local store, please ask for it!

For those with an interest in popular culture, commercial art and design, publishing history, comic books, paperbacks, pulp magazines, or collecting original art, ILLUSTRATION is the best source for new information on the illustrators of the past.

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