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The Ring Bearer, Original Cover Illustration for The American Weekly Magazine

The Ring Bearer, Original Cover Illustration for The American Weekly Magazine

By Arthur Sarnoff

Located in Fort Washington, PA

Original cover illustration for The American Weekly magazine, published June 2, 1957. The image features a little boy with freckles carrying a ring pillow down the aisle at a weddin...

Category

1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Pencil, Paperboard

"Washington Crossing the Backyard" Cover illustration for Liberty Magazine

"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'
Study for 'Willie Gillis in Convoy'

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. --- The first Saturday Evening Post cov...

Category

1940s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Charcoal

Newspaper over Books
Newspaper over Books

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
Mom with Apples, Good Housekeeping Cover

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
Movie Date, Post Cover

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
Swimming Hole, Post Cover

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

Patriotic Couple at Home. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Calendar
Patriotic Couple at Home. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Calendar

Patriotic Couple at Home. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Calendar

By Anton Otto Fischer

Located in Fort Washington, PA

Original calendar illustration for Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, published 1919. The illustration features a couple spending a quiet evening at home. A woman sews blue stars ...

Category

1910s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Over There, Farm and Home Magazine cover
Over There, Farm and Home Magazine cover

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
Along the Garden Path

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
Fiction Number, Collier's magazine cover

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
Trick-or-Treat, Original Halloween Cover Painting for The Saturday Evening Post

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
Let's Go Fishing, Original Cover Painting for The Saturday Evening Post

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. ...

Category

1960s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Board, Mixed Media

Second from the Right, Liberty Magazine Cover Painting, Couple in Theater

Second from the Right, Liberty Magazine Cover Painting, Couple in Theater

By Leslie Thrasher

Located in Fort Washington, PA

Original cover for Liberty magazine, published November 21, 1931. Set during the Great Depression, Sandy and Lil have lost everything in the stock market crash. The couple is qua...

Category

1930s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Bill's Bird House, Original Cover Painting for The Saturday Evening Post

Bill's Bird House, Original Cover Painting for The Saturday Evening Post

By John Philip Falter

Located in Fort Washington, PA

Original cover painting illustrating The Saturday Evening Post, May 8, 1948. "Bill, the Birdhouse Builder, lives and builds in Artist John Falter's home town, Atchison, Kansas, and ...

Category

1940s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Board, Canvas, Oil, Pencil

"Gourmet Cook" Original Cover Painting for The Saturday Evening Post

"Gourmet Cook" Original Cover Painting for The Saturday Evening Post

By Constantin Alajalov

Located in Fort Washington, PA

Original cover painting for The Saturday Evening Post, published April 13, 1946 The Post described, “Not long ago, Constantin Alajalov, who painted our cover for this week, had an e...

Category

1940s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Board

Prometheus
Prometheus

Prometheus

By Maxfield Parrish

Located in Fort Washington, PA

Medium: Oil on Panel Sight Size 31.00" x 21.25", Framed 36.00" x 22.00" Signature: Signed Lower Left Maxfield Parrish began his career at age 25 as an illustrator, painting magazin...

Category

1910s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Woman in Carriage Receives Gift of a Kitten; Illustration circa 1895
Woman in Carriage Receives Gift of a Kitten; Illustration circa 1895

Woman in Carriage Receives Gift of a Kitten; Illustration circa 1895

By Charles Relyea

Located in Fort Washington, PA

Original illustration for an unidentified publication, circa 1895 Medium: Watercolor and gouache on paper Artwork Dimensions: 24.00" x 16.00" Framed Dimensions: 37" x 29" Signatur...

Category

1890s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

Cascades (Quiet Solitude)
Cascades (Quiet Solitude)

Cascades (Quiet Solitude)

By Maxfield Parrish

Located in Fort Washington, PA

In 1930, Maxfield Parrish turned his attention to painting landscapes exclusively. Cascades is a fine example of the style that defined his late career. The composition features a fa...

Category

1950s Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Graduation Day Figurative Illustration Painting, 1960s, Vibrant Colors
Graduation Day Figurative Illustration Painting, 1960s, Vibrant Colors

Graduation Day Figurative Illustration Painting, 1960s, Vibrant Colors

By Peter Stevens

Located in Fort Washington, PA

A young graduate holds his diploma and receives a congratulatory hand shake as his parents watch with pride. An original illustration from the 1960s with vibrant colors

Category

1960s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Charging Locomotive
Charging Locomotive

Charging Locomotive

Located in Fort Washington, PA

Possibly "Boy's Life" cover

Category

1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

"Garland in trailing chiffon, roses in her arms, came down, a glory in her
"Garland in trailing chiffon, roses in her arms, came down, a glory in her

"Garland in trailing chiffon, roses in her arms, came down, a glory in her

By E.M. Jackson

Located in Fort Washington, PA

Original story illustration for the conclusion of “Blue Marigolds: The Mad, Sweet Dreams of Youth Come True” by Helen Topping Miller for Good Housekeeping, published June 1934, pages...

Category

1930s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Rumanian Racket Ruler - Cartoon of Tennis Player Ilie Nastase

Rumanian Racket Ruler - Cartoon of Tennis Player Ilie Nastase

By Charles Phil Bissell

Located in Fort Washington, PA

Cartoon of Tennis Player Ilie Nastase Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board Signature: Signed Lower Left

Category

20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Illustration Board, Pen

Chris Evert - Cartoon of Tennis Player Chris Evert

Chris Evert - Cartoon of Tennis Player Chris Evert

By Charles Phil Bissell

Located in Fort Washington, PA

Cartoon of Tennis Player Chris Evert Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board Signature: Signed Lower Left Contact for dimensions.

Category

20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Illustration Board, Pen

Billie Jean King - Cartoon of Tennis Player Billie Jean King

Billie Jean King - Cartoon of Tennis Player Billie Jean King

By Charles Phil Bissell

Located in Fort Washington, PA

Cartoon of Tennis Player Billie Jean King Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board Signature: Signed Lower Left Contact for dimensions.

Category

20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Illustration Board, Pen

Mask and Wig
Mask and Wig

Mask and Wig

By Maxfield Parrish

Located in Fort Washington, PA

Medium: Oil on Wood Panel Signature: Signed ‘Parrish’ (On the Reverse) Finished painting done as a prototype for the mural at the University of Pennsylvania LITERATURE L.S. Cutler ...

Category

1890s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Knight Looking in Stained Glass Window, Christmas Cover for the Post
Knight Looking in Stained Glass Window, Christmas Cover for the Post

Knight Looking in Stained Glass Window, Christmas Cover for the Post

By Norman Rockwell

Located in Fort Washington, PA

Original cover for The Saturday Evening Post, published December 6, 1930 Medium: Oil on Canvas Artwork Dimensions: 44.25" x 34.25" Signature: Signed Lower Right Norman Rockwe...

Category

1930s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Story illustration for “Smoke Bellew” by Jack London for Cosmopolitan Magazine
Story illustration for “Smoke Bellew” by Jack London for Cosmopolitan Magazine

Story illustration for “Smoke Bellew” by Jack London for Cosmopolitan Magazine

By Anton Otto Fischer

Located in Fort Washington, PA

Story illustration for “Smoke Bellew” by Jack London for Cosmopolitan magazine, published January 1912, page 200. The full caption reads: “With much awkwardness and angry haste, the...

Category

1910s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Thanksgiving, The American Weekly Cover, Preliminary Study
Thanksgiving, The American Weekly Cover, Preliminary Study

Thanksgiving, The American Weekly Cover, Preliminary Study

By Joseph Christian Leyendecker

Located in Fort Washington, PA

Study for the cover of The American Weekly (Thanksgiving edition), published November 24, 1946 For the final published composition, Leyendecker painted the artist as a young man. ...

Category

1940s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Board

“Uncle Pete took the hand and peered into the prisoner’s face”
“Uncle Pete took the hand and peered into the prisoner’s face”

“Uncle Pete took the hand and peered into the prisoner’s face”

By Harry Beckhoff

Located in Fort Washington, PA

Story illustration for “Good Neighbors” by John Faulkner for Collier’s magazine, published November 7, 1942, page 17. The full published caption reads: “Uncle Pete took the hand an...

Category

1940s Interior Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Hanging Clothes to Dry, Post Cover
Hanging Clothes to Dry, Post Cover

Hanging Clothes to Dry, Post Cover

By John Philip Falter

Located in Fort Washington, PA

The Saturday Evening Post, April 7, 1945, Cover Illustration. Stated on page 4 of the Post: Just to show you how cover artists work, we asked John Falter to send us one of his early...

Category

1940s Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Talking to Joyce” Book illustration for The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor”
"Talking to Joyce” Book illustration for The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor”

"Talking to Joyce” Book illustration for The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor”

Located in Fort Washington, PA

Story illustration for The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor by Annie F. Johnston, published by L.C. Page & Company, Boston, 1906, page 66. The image illustrates the scene from the ...

Category

Early 1900s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Graphite

"She Makes me Work" Original illustration
"She Makes me Work" Original illustration

"She Makes me Work" Original illustration

By Arthur Burdett Frost

Located in Fort Washington, PA

Artwork Dimensions: 18 x 13.5 in. Medium: Gouache on Board Signature: Signed Lower Right

Category

20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Board

New York Rainbow, Post Cover
New York Rainbow, Post Cover

New York Rainbow, Post Cover

By John Philip Falter

Located in Fort Washington, PA

Cover illustration of the April 30, 1949 issue of The Saturday Evening Post Page 3 of the Post states: When John Falter’s cover painting was accepted, there was lightening trickli...

Category

1940s Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

A Colonial Christmas
A Colonial Christmas

A Colonial Christmas

By Conrad Dickel

Located in Fort Washington, PA

Advertisement for the Interwoven Stocking Company, New Brunswick, NJ. "A Colonial Christmas", Title given by Interwoven. (“Christmas in Philadelphia—Independence Hall” is title give...

Category

1920s Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Gouache

Children’s Ward at Christmas, Post Cover
Children’s Ward at Christmas, Post Cover

Children’s Ward at Christmas, Post Cover

By George Hughes

Located in Fort Washington, PA

Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, December 25, 1954 The Post's writes on page 3: Christmas is for happiness. There was the star above Bethlehem, and it shone joyfully. Its light ...

Category

1950s Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil

Childhood
Childhood

Childhood

By James Montgomery Flagg

Located in Fort Washington, PA

Titled 'Childhood' lower center

Category

1910s Romantic Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Ink

“You have no right to interfere” Story illustration for Saturday Evening Post
“You have no right to interfere” Story illustration for Saturday Evening Post

“You have no right to interfere” Story illustration for Saturday Evening Post

By Arthur William Brown

Located in Fort Washington, PA

Story illustration for “Spotlight” by Clarence Budington Kelland for The Saturday Evening Post, published August 15, 1936. The full caption reads: “‘My point,’ he said, ‘is that ...

Category

1930s Mixed Media

Materials

Board, Mixed Media

"Morning" from "A Mother's Days" Illustration for Scribner's Monthly Magazine
"Morning" from "A Mother's Days" Illustration for Scribner's Monthly Magazine

"Morning" from "A Mother's Days" Illustration for Scribner's Monthly Magazine

By Jessie Willcox Smith

Located in Fort Washington, PA

This work is one of six paintings from the series “A Mother’s Days,” published in Scribner’s Monthly Magazine, December 1902 Exhibitions: New York, The Dahesh Museum of Art, Stories...

Category

Early 1900s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Board

"Look Who's Here"
"Look Who's Here"

"Look Who's Here"

By MABEL ROLLINS HARRIS

Located in Fort Washington, PA

Illustration reproduced on prints and promotional materials, such as trade cards and calendars. Two little girls look out the window and watch ...

Category

20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Canvas, Pastel

Raj Circus Fantasy, Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post
Raj Circus Fantasy, Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post

Raj Circus Fantasy, Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post

By Joseph Christian Leyendecker

Located in Fort Washington, PA

Original magazine cover illustration for the June 17, 1916 issue of The Saturday Evening Post. The image features a celebratory procession including an elephant, monkeys, clowns, a...

Category

1910s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Soldier or Sailor, Original cover Illustration for The Saturday Evening Post
Soldier or Sailor, Original cover Illustration for The Saturday Evening Post

Soldier or Sailor, Original cover Illustration for The Saturday Evening Post

By John Howitt

Located in Fort Washington, PA

Original cover for The Saturday Evening Post, published October 19, 1940 A woman puckers her lips to kiss a sailor as he looks down to see a photograph of a soldier spill out of her...

Category

1940s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

The Model as an Artist, Shaw-Barton Pin-up calendar illustration
The Model as an Artist, Shaw-Barton Pin-up calendar illustration

The Model as an Artist, Shaw-Barton Pin-up calendar illustration

By Knute O Munson

Located in Fort Washington, PA

The Model as an Artist, Pin-Up illustration for Shaw-Barton calendars, circa 1950s. A woman sits on a tree stump in front of an easel holding a paint palette as a small dog looks on....

Category

1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Pastel, Board

Old Man Shoveling Snow and Smoking Pipe
Old Man Shoveling Snow and Smoking Pipe

Old Man Shoveling Snow and Smoking Pipe

By Robert Robinson

Located in Fort Washington, PA

Original illustration of an old man shoveling snow while smoking a pipe. A charming winter scene. Probable unpublished variant of cover for January 21, 1911 issue of The Saturday Ev...

Category

1910s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Career Vs. Homemaking, Cover for The Saturday Evening Post, September 1959 Cover
Career Vs. Homemaking, Cover for The Saturday Evening Post, September 1959 Cover

Career Vs. Homemaking, Cover for The Saturday Evening Post, September 1959 Cover

By Constantin Alajalov

Located in Fort Washington, PA

Original Cover for The Saturday Evening Post, September 19, 1959. This it a two part purchase, both illustrations included. Two separate pieces sold as a pair. This is the first in ...

Category

1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Board

Portrait of a Boy with a Toy Sailboat, Oil on Canvas, Signed, 1926
Portrait of a Boy with a Toy Sailboat, Oil on Canvas, Signed, 1926

Portrait of a Boy with a Toy Sailboat, Oil on Canvas, Signed, 1926

By Jessie Willcox Smith

Located in Fort Washington, PA

Portrait of a little 2 1/2-year-old boy holding a toy sailboat in a seaside landscape. Inscribed on the stretcher: Peter Krumbhaar Age 2-1/2 Painting by J.W. Smith June-Sept. 1926 a...

Category

1920s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil