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Your art history post for today is actually illustration history: by Anne Estelle Rice (1877–1959), cover of The Saturday Evening Post, October 29, 1904, Halloween issue. #arthistory #illustrationhistory #illustration #womanartist #womenartists

From The Saturday Evening Post: “Anne Estelle Rice (1877–1959) was born in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, and studied art at the School of Industrial Art of the Pennsylvania Museum as well as the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. She was an illustrator for the most popular magazines of the day, including Collier’s, Harper’s, and The Saturday Evening Post.

In the early 1900s, she spent time in Paris and turned to painting, where she created art in the post-impressionist, and then Fauvist, styles. Department store owner John Wannamaker commissioned her to paint seven murals for his flagship Philadelphia store, where they were displayed until the store was remodeled in the 1950s.

Rice married theater critic Raymond Dray in 1913. They lived in England where Rice became involved with designing theater costumes and sets. Rice painted three covers for The Saturday Evening Post.”

A person (male or female, hard to tell), with close-cropped hair and dressed in a white clown costume reminiscent of Pierrot or Pulcinella. The figure is on their knees painting (or carving?) a Jack-o-Lantern.

Your art history post for today: magazine advertisement by Coles Phillips (1880–1927). More in ALT. #illustration #illustrationhistory #art

Overall pink palette. A woman sits at a vanity. Arm outstretched, she is holding a flower.

From Marina Subach, CapU ePortfolios, January 22, 2019: ‘Coles Philips was an American artist and illustrator who signed his early works C. Coles Phillips, but after 1911 worked under the abbreviated name, Coles Phillips. He is known for his stylish images of women and signature use of negative space in the paintings he created for advertisements and the covers of popular magazines.

The first two decades of the 1900’s saw dramatic changes in how artists portrayed American women in magazines and other media. Instead of the prim, proper, and idealized “Gibson girl” socialite of the 1890’s, the public was treated to an outpouring of more modern, active, and athletic images of women. Chief among the early creators of this “Golden Age of American Illustration” was Coles Phillips who popularized the “fade-away” style.

The work of Phillips quickly became popular with the Life readers. In May 1908, he created a cover for the magazine that featured his first “fadeaway girl” design with a figure whose clothing matched, and disappeared into, the background. Phillips developed this idea in many subsequent covers.’

By Charles Dana Gibson (1867-1944), “Japonette,” ca. 1912, ink on paper, 20-5/8 x 12-1/4 inches (52.4 x 31.1 cm), photo: Heritage Auctions, November 17, 2014. From the website: ‘This work was reproduced on pp. 16-17 in Japonette by Robert W. Chambers above the caption: "A dainty, unreal shape, exquisite as a tinted phantom stealing through a fairy tale of Old Japan, " 1912. The illustration was first published serially as "The Turning Point," 1911-12.’ #arthistory #illustrationhistory #penandink #drawing

A pen & ink drawing of a young white woman wearing a kimono, holding up a fan. She appears startled.

Your art history post for today is an example of illustration history: by Richard F. (Dick) Stone, born 1925, Portrait of Model Sara Thom, ca. 1956 bamboo pen, brush, and casein on board, photo: Swann Auction Galleries, Dec 14, 2023. #arthistory #illustrationhistory #illustration

From ArtNet: “Dick Stone was a top mid-century illustrator who worked for the most famous brands. He was an assignment artist hired by such esteemed Ad Agencies as BBDO and the top newsstand magazines of the day. This portrait of top model Sara Thom exhibits Stone's artistic and creative talents. It is beautifully rendered and designed and exudes 50's elegance. The poster-like illustration is composed of high-contrast black and white except for the face - where the artist inserts splashes of color. This exceptional work is an icon of the quintessential 50's American women and the epitome of glamour.”

From the gallery: “Sara Thom was one of the most sought-after models in the 1950s and 60s. Known for her appearances in advertisements for cosmetics, jewelry and furs, she also appeared on many magazine covers, most notably Vogue. Her career lasted about a decade, from the late fifties until her retirement in the mid-sixties.”

Happy New Year 1890, from a set of trading cards issued by Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company, commercial color lithograph, 1 1/2 × 2 3/4 in. (3.8 × 7 cm), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. #illustration #illustrationhistory #arthistory

Two children in winter clothing ringing the bells for New Year’s Eve.

My blog has been woefully dormant for a few months. But a research deep dive inspired the most recent post. Oh midcentury illustration… how I love you!

http://www.melaniecordan.com/post/my-love-affair-with-midcentury-illustrators

#midcentury #midcenturyillustration #kidlit #kidlitart #illustration #AleksanderLindeberg #MaryBlair #UPAstudio #illustrationhistory #animationhistory #illustrationblog #amblogging

Mucha. Photographed from an original print. #artnouveau #archives #museum #illustrationhistory

By James Hill @AgeHill #illustrationhistory #Canadian

Gorgeously serene llustration by Navajo artist Hoke Denetsosie from Little Herder in Spring and Summer (1950) by Ann Nolan Clark.

It was part of the Little Herder series about a year in the life of a little Navajo girl, which originally appeared in English and Navajo for classroom use in Federal Indian schools.

#KidLit #KidLitArt #Navajo #ChildrensBook #ChildrensBookIllustration #Bookstodon #IllustrationHistory #Illustration

Illustration from the excellently titled arithmetic book Marmaduke Multiply’s Merry Method of Making Minor Mathematics (c. 1816)

#BookHistory #IllustrationHistory #BooksForChildren #Boosktodon #KidLit #KidLitArt

Early 19th century illustration depicting a girl standing on a chair that is standing on a table, she is reaching for something high up on a shelf. A little boy is standing nearby and gesturing at the girl. The caption reads “Eight times 11 are 88. If you fall down you’ll break your pate”

Looking for an elephant in New Jersey.

Love the mood of this illustration by one of my all-time favourites Robert Ingpen. This is for The Stolen White Elephant, a short story by Mark Twain, published with Ingpen’s illustrations in 1987.

#ChildrensBookIllustration #KidLit #KidLitArt #RobertIngpen #Bookstodon #ChildrensBooks #IllustrationArt #IllustrationHistory #MarkTwain #Detectives

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