Other Illustrators

Important twentieth-century commercial illustrators include Philip Boileau (1864-1917), George Bellows (1882-1925), William Henry Chandler (1854-1928), Harrison Fisher (1875-1934), Bessie Pease Gutmann (1876-1960), Hy Hintermeister (1897-1972), and Maud Humphrey (1865-1940). Other artists, including Andrew Wyeth (1917-present), Grant Wood (1891-1945), and Salvador Dali (1904-1989), did prints that were considered more artistic than commercial. Many artists who are […]

Norman Rockwell

Norman Rockwell (1894–1978), probably the best-known illustrator of twentieth-century American life, painted illustrations and was art director for Boy’s Life, the Boy Scouts of America magazine, while still in his teens. In 1916 he painted the first of 321 covers he produced for Saturday Evening Post over the next 47 years. These covers showed ordinary […]

Wallace Nutting

For many years collectors have called the tinted photographs created by Wallace Nutting by the seemingly incorrect name Nutting prints. Experts and collectors today refer to them as “prints” or “pictures.” The twelve titles that were machine-produced (1938-1942) are sometimes called “process prints.” Wallace Nutting ( 1861–1941) was a successful clergyman, furniture maker, author, and […]

Maxfield Frederick Parrish

Maxfield Parrish (1870–1966) is known for his illustrations for magazine covers, books, posters, calendars, and advertisements. Parrish began as a magazine illustrator, creating his first magazine cover for Harper’s Bazar in 1895. Later he drew covers and illustrations for Scribner’s Magazine, Collier’s, Ladies’ Home Journal, and other publications and books. General Electric used Parrish prints […]

Louis Icart

French printmaker, painter, and illustrator Louis Icart (1888–1950) began working in Paris in 1907 as a colorist for a company that sold postcards of attractive women and actresses. He illustrated fashion brochures from about 1910 to 1915 and created a series of etchings of fashionably dressed women. Icart served in World War I, and when […]

R. Atkinson Fox

R. Atkinson Fox, (1860-1935) who produced more than 1,000 pictures, was one of the most prolific artists of his time. His subjects ranged from animals (especially cows), landscapes, Indians, and the American West to “enchanted” girls and gardens in the style of Maxfield Parrish. It is difficult to identify Fox’s work because he used more […]

Woodblock Prints

Woodblock prints produced by artists from the Arts and Crafts movement in the early twentieth century are popular again after being ignored for the past decades. These artists drew their inspiration from the traditional Japanese woodblock prints that became available in the West in the second half of the nineteenth century. The Japanese woodblock print’s […]

Tinsel Pictures

The tinsel picture was an art form popular in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In America tinsel pictures were reverse paintings on glass that were mounted on crinkled metallic paper. The shiny paper showed through the painting and added interest to the background. Another type of tinsel picture is the English theatrical tinsel […]

Wax Portraits

Wax pictures were molded or cast, then mounted on a darker background. The art of making portraits in wax was practiced during the eighteenth century in England and France and remained popular until about 1850 in America. Some of the portraits were signed. Many wax pictures were portraits of royalty or politicians. Others were copies […]

Silhouettes

The silhouette is a “cutout” paper picture that still enjoys popularity. The word “silhouette,” meaning a simple outline picture, was added to the French dictionary in 1835. In eighteenth-century America, the word “shade” was used until the French word came into use.Any early silhouette, one made before 1900, is a collector’s prize. An important type […]