Study for a Saturday Evening Post cover (December 11, 1954), by Amos Sewell (American, 1901-1883). Sewell sustained a strong relationship with the Saturday Evening Post, illustrating 45 covers between 1949 and 1962. He also achieved recognition as a WWII wartime artist and won a special art award for his War Bond ad illustration, What’s It…
Category: American
Benjamin Franklin at the Court of King Louis 16th
Late 19th-century Lithograph, Benjamin Franklin at the Court of King Louis 16th. Franklin charmed, and sometimes scandalized, the French, America’s strongest ally during the Revolutionary War. He served as the American Minister (ambassador) to France from 1778 to 1785.
American Beauty
by Bradshaw Crandell (American, 1896-1966) While Bradshaw Crandell’s greatest satisfaction as an artist came as a result of his later portraiture of governors and heads of state, it was as a commercial artist that he achieved his greatest recognition. For a dozen years Crandell was the cover artist for Cosmopolitan Magazine, illustrating Hollywood’s most attractive…
Almost Got It
Painted for the Father’s Day cover (June 18, 1939) of This Week Magazine by Russell Sambrook (American, 1891-1956). Illustrators such as Sambrook fill in the gap between the age dominated by Joseph Leyendecker and the renaissance of Americana seen through Norman Rockwell’s eyes. Sambrook’s approach to visual design and sense of stagey humor owe a…
Portrait of a Young Woman
by Neysa McMein (American, 1888-1949), cover of the Saturday Evening Post, March 11, 1922. Born Marjorie Moran in Quincy, Illinois, McMein attended the Art Institute of Chicago and in 1913 went to New York City. Her pastel drawings of chic, healthy American girls proved highly popular and brought her many commissions. During World War I…
Study for Saturday Evening Post
Study for Saturday Evening Post cover, March 23, 1940, by Joseph Leyendecker. Leyendecker (American,1874 –1951) was one of the most popular American illustrators of the early 20th century. He is best known for his poster, book and advertising illustrations, and his numerous covers for The Saturday Evening Post. Between 1896 and 1950, Leyendecker painted more…
Sunday Morning
by Martha Walter (American, 1875-1976). An American impressionist painter, Walter studied in Philadelphia and Europe, ultimately returning to teach at William Chase’s New York School of Art. She was a master at capturing small-town imagery and local landscapes filled with rich colors and light.
Morning Prayer
by Enoch Wood Perry, Jr. (American, 1831-1915). Perry studied under Emanuel Leutze (several of whose paintings are held by the Pamplin Collection) in Germany and began his career in New Orleans at the outset of the Civil War. He painted the well-known Signing of the Ordinance of Secession of Louisiana in 1861 as well as…
Trouble on the Trail
by Ila Mae McAfee (American, 1897-1995) Born in Colorado, McAfee was trained in art schools in Chicago and New York before moving to Taos in 1928. With husband and artist Elmer Page Turner, McAfee built White Horse Studio, from which they worked until 1993. She painted landscapes, but her specialty was horses, as this humorous…
Walking Home from Church
by Anthony Thieme (American 1888-1954). Thieme was a highly regarded landscape and marine painter and a prominent figure in the Rockport (Maine) School of American regional art. Born and schooled in Europe, he moved to the United States in 1910. Continuing his education in the U.S. and Europe, he traveled widely and settled in Rockport,…