About The Illustrated Gallery
The Illustrated Gallery sells original illustrated artwork from 1890-1970. Our collection of over 2,500 illustrations comes from more than 600 revered artists including John Ford Clymer, Joseph Christian Leyendecker, Norman Rockwell, Jessie Willcox Smith, Maxfield Parrish, Stevan Dohanos, and many more. We specialize in original covers for magazines like The Saturday Evening Post, Liberty, Judge, Vogue, Motor, Capper's Farmer, and other leading 20th-century publications. We also carry original illustrations for magazine stories, books, advertisements, and posters.
Established in 19951stDibs seller since 2016
Featured Pieces
"Washington Crossing the Backyard" Cover illustration for Liberty Magazine
By Leslie Thrasher
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original cover for Liberty magazine, published February 27, 1932
In a clever riff on Emanuel Leutze’s iconic 1851 painting Washington Crossing the Delaware, the neighborhood childre...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Study for 'Willie Gillis in Convoy'
By Norman Rockwell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
LITERATURE:
L.N. Moffatt, Norman Rockwell: A Definitive Catalogue, Vol. II, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1986, p. 1107, no. M48, illustrated.
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The first Saturday Evening Post cov...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Newspaper over Books
By Joseph Christian Leyendecker
Located in Fort Washington, PA
EXHIBITED:
Museum of American Illustration at the Society of Illustrators, New York, "Americans Abroad: J.C. Leyendecker and the Influence on American Illustration," May 21-July 12, ...
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mom with Apples, Good Housekeeping Cover
By Jessie Willcox Smith
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Good Housekeeping, October 1929, cover illustration.
This charming Good Housekeeping cover depicts a beautiful toddler helping his mother put bright red apples in her apron in prepa...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Board
Movie Date, Post Cover
By Spencer Douglass Crockwell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Literature:
The Saturday Evening Post, April 4, 1942, cover illustration.
J. Cohn, Covers of the Saturday Evening Post: Seventy Years of Outstanding Illustration From America’s Fa...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Swimming Hole, Post Cover
By Mead Schaeffer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
The Saturday Evening Post, June 25, 1949, cover illustration.
Page 3 of the Post states:
Long ago, that dam behind which the East Arlington, Vermont, lads are swimming in Mead Scha...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Advertisement
By Anton Otto Fischer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original calendar illustration for Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, published 1919
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Over There, Farm and Home Magazine cover
By Joseph Francis Kernan
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Farm and Home magazine cover, January 1919
Following the Armistice in November 1918, American GIs began returning home in February of the next year. The months in between were fille...
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Along the Garden Path
By Jessie Willcox Smith
Located in Fort Washington, PA
According to Edward Nudelman, a leading expert on the artist and author of Jessie Willcox Smith: A Bibliography, the artwork is chronologically and stylistically related to Smith's i...
Category
Early 1900s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Archival Paper
Fiction Number, Collier's magazine cover
By Frank Xavier Leyendecker
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original cover for Collier's magazine, published December 21, 1901
The image features a woman sitting on a bench next to a dog and holding a book.
Artwork Dimensions: 20" x 14"
Fra...
Category
Early 1900s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Illustration Board
Trick-or-Treat, Original Halloween Cover Painting for The Saturday Evening Post
By Ellen Pyle
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original Halloween cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, published published October 25, 1930.
A vintage Halloween illustration of children trick-or-treating by a histor...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Let's Go Fishing, Original Cover Painting for The Saturday Evening Post
By Amos Sewell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, published August 25-September 1, 1962.
A little boy eager to go fishing sits watching his father sleep away the morning.
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Category
1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Mixed Media
