Joseph Christian Leyendecker Art

Original vintage World War I poster. U.S.A. bonds: Third Liberty Loan campaign: Boy Scouts of America. Depicted: Boy Scout handing a sword inscribed "Be prepared" to a stylized warri...

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...

Signed by Artist Signed Lower Right The Discus Thrower, The American Victory at Athens, Collier's Weekly magazine cover, June 9, 1906 LITERATURE: L.S. Cutler and J.G. Cutler, J.C. ...

Original U.S. Marines "Soldiers of the Sea" vintage poster by J.C. Leyendecker (c. 1917); linen-backed in A-, B+ condition, ready to frame. The poster h...

Original magazine cover illustration for the August 28, 1909 issue of Collier's magazine. The image features a man and woman in an early airplane. LITERATURE Collier's, 28 August ...

Medium: Oil on Board Signature: Signed Middle Left Cover of Saturday Evening Post magazine (Easter edition), April 1905. This is one of Leyendecker's first Easter covers for the Sa...

A stunning study for a 1920s Kuppenheimer clothing advertisement featuring a fashionably-dressed couple kneeling in an embrace before a pair of ...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left Styles for Men: The House of Kuppenheimer, Spring and Summer 1914, cover illustration. This piece was published as the cover illu...

Original cover for The Saturday Evening Post, published March 30, 1929. J.C. Leyendecker's holiday covers, particularly his iconic New Year's baby, were instrumental in driving The...

Signed by Artist Lower Right The Saturday Evening Post cover, September 18, 1937 One of the most prolific and sought-after artists of the Golden Age of Illustration, J.C. Leyendecker captivates the public with his striking, fashionable depictions of handsome men, glamorous women, and adorable children. Painted in 1937 First Long Suit not only encapsulates the high-fashion, glamorous fantasy world that Leyendecker strove to achieve over the course of his vastly successful career, it also poignantly captures a bittersweet moment that every parent experiences--watching our children grow up right before our eyes. Born in Montabaur, Germany, Leyendecker came to Chicago with his Catholic family at age eight. He apprenticed to a printer, J. Manz and Co., and then studied with John Vanderpoel at the Chicago Art Institute. In 1896, he won the Century magazine...

Medium: Oil on Pencil on Paper Sight Size 22.00" x 17.50;" Framed 30.00" x 25.50" Signature: Unsigned Study for Cover of Saturday Evening Post Magazine, December 18, 1937 Exhibitio...

Original cover for The Saturday Evening Post magazine, published May 14, 1932 Joseph Christian Leyendecker’s Circus Bareback Rider (1932) is a standout example of his work for The S...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left Sight Size 22.00" x 15.50", Framed 31.00" x 24.00" Success Magazine Cover, The Success Company, Ne...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Featured in The Saturday Evening Post

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed lower right: JC Leyendecker Living Mannequin sold at the U.S. War Bond at the United States Treasury-Saturday E...

J.C. Leyendecker's "Boy Scouts Signaling with Flags," first published on the cover of The September 9, 1911 edition of The Saturday Evening Post, quickly became an iconic image of the Boy Scouts of America, which was founded the previous year. Embodying core values like leadership, teamwork, and preparedness, its widespread reproduction cemented its status as a defining visual representation of the organization. The painting depicts two scouts practicing flag signaling, a vital early 20th-century communication skill and a requirement for the Eagle Scout...

Original cover for The Saturday Evening Post, published November 22, 1930 A sweet scene of a child ill in bed and getting checked by a doctor as his concerned mother and dog look on...

Signature: Signed Lower Left Medium: Oil on Canvas Saturday Evening Post Cover, September 18, 1920 - Leyendecker addressed the theme of American patriotism in several ways. His famous Fourth of July covers asserted the import of American independence through stock characters: George Washington, Uncle Sam, the Statue of Liberty, colonial Freedom Fighters, and modern-day soldiers. In addition, his World War I and World War II covers depicted soldiers proudly defending their country. Leyendecker also profiled U.S. presidents and historical figures - George Washington, Robert E. Lee, William Howard Taft...

Original advertisement for Kuppenheimer Clothing, featuring a jockey on a race horse and a well-dressed gentleman in a suit This illustration for Kuppenheimer Clothes appeared in various advertisements and promotional materials in 1926 and 1927, such as the cover of a race-themed Kuppenheimer advertising booklet, as well as the interior page of the Kuppenheimer Spring & Summer 1926 brochure, where the associated caption states: “This double-breasted, with slender hips and broad Curvette shoulders, will be quite the thing with stylish young fellows this spring – especially in the new shades of Ambertone and Silvertone.” A wood-engraving of the image was completed by Jacob Sander for use in newspapers in 1926. Engravings like this were often created to eliminate the difficulties associated with half-tone production on the poor quality newspaper stock. The present work showcases the artist’s ability to capture an idealized vision of male beauty. The rich colors and textures of the fabrics applied with Leyendecker’s signature painterly technique further enhance the appeal of the clothing the picture advertises. In the early spring of 1926, in preparation for upcoming Kuppenheimer advertising projects, J.C. Leyendecker visited the Aqueduct Racetrack horse racing facility in Queens, New York. He was directed to the legendary trainer ‘Dick’ (Herbert John Thompson), who was training the horse named Bubbling Over, who would become the model or the horse pictured...

Signed by artist lower right The Saturday Evening Post cover, July 29, 1922 This commission for The Saturday Evening Post is a brill...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, November 4, 1916 Literature: The Saturday Evening Post, November 4, 1916, illustrated on the ...

Medium: Oil on Board Signature: Signed Center Left Study for Saturday Evening Post Cover 'Who, Me Work?' January 23, 1926

Signed by Artist Signed Lower Center The Saturday Evening Post cover, June 13, 1914 LITERATURE: L.S. Cutler and J.G. Cutler, J.C. Leyendecker, American Imagist, New York, 2008, p. ...

Signature: Signed Lower Right Cover Illustration: Saturday Evening Post, November 6, 1937

Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 28.00" x 21.00" Signature: Unsigned Literature: The Saturday Evening Post, June 14, 1923, illustrated as Kuppenheimer Clothing Company advertisementLaurence S. Cutler and Judy Goffman Cutler, J.C. Leyendecker: American Imagist, New York, 2008, p. 91, illustrated in color p. 92 Notes: The Kuppenheimer Clothing Company used this painting as an advertisment for its men's clothing. The advertisement printed...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left Sight Size 24.00" x 19.00", Framed 32.50" x 27.00" Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, August 26, 1922. Exhibitions: JC Leyendecker...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Literature: The Saturday Evening Post, October 15, 1938, cover illustration. J. Cohn, Covers of The Saturday Evening Post, New Yo...

Medium: Hand Painted Fine Print Signature: Signed Lower Left

Original interior illustration for the Kuppenheimer Clothing 1913-1914 Fall / Winter stylebook This masterwork is the only known self-portrait by J.C. Leyendecker executed in oil. ...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Laid on Board Signature: Unsigned The Saturday Evening Post, November 16, 1912 cover Study (Thanksgiving Edition)

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Sight Size 31.00" x 24.25;" Framed 37.00" x 30.00" Cover of the December 23rd, 1939 issue of The Saturday Evening Post. Literatu...

Father Rushing Home with an Armload of Gifts, The Saturday Evening Post Cover, December 4, 1909. A charming original cover for The Saturday Evening Post, published December 4, 1909,...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Middle Right Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, November 28, 1925 Literature: The Saturday Evening Post, November 28, 1925, cover illustra...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Illustration for the poem “The Radiant Christ” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox for Delineator Magazine, published December 1907. Ella Whe...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Saturday Evening Post Cover, April 19, 1930

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Sight Size 30.00" x 24.12", Framed 39.00" x 34.00" Saturday Evening Post Cover, December 18, 1937 Exhibitions: It's a Man's Worl...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Laid Down on Board Signature: Inscribed with Title (Lower Center) Joseph Christian Leyendecker created the Arrow Collar Man in 1905 for Cluette, Peabody & Comp...

Signed by artist lower left. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine Cover

Signature: Signed Lower Right Cover Illustration: Saturday Evening Post, October 3, 1931

Medium: Oil Painting Signature: Signed Lower Right Sight Size 24.00" x 20.00", Framed 31.00" x 27.00" The Saturday Evening Post cover illustration, December 1907

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Unsigned This is a study for the cover illustration of the 1 January 1927 issue of The Saturday Evening Post.

Signed by Artist Lower Right Amoco Oil Advertisements

Medium: Pen and Ink on Paper Signature: 11.00" x 11.50" Dimensions: Signed Initials Upper Right

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Unsigned Sight Size 23.50" x 27.25", Framed 29.50" x 33.00" The present work is a study for Flowers for the President c...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Unsigned The present work is a study for the cover of the March 18, 1922 cover of The Saturday Evening Post.

Little boy eating bowl of Kelloggs

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left In the 1890s and early 1900s, as J.C. Leyendecker was developing his pictorial work for advertisements, magazine covers, and posters, he also illustrated a number of novels to supplement his income. These titles include One Fair Daughter (1895), Ships that Pass in the Night (1898), The Kiss of Glory (1902), Ridolfo (1906), The Crimson Conquest (1907), Get Rich Quick Wallingford (1908), The Voice in the Rice (1910) and The Lonely Guard (1912). The present work is one of six Leyendecker illustrations from Gouverner Morris' The Voice in the Rice, published in book form in 1911. The novel centers on a dashing young man, Michael Bourne, who, after surviving a shipwreck off the coast of South Carolina, washes ashore near the Santee River and encounters a secret slaveholding community. Lord Nairn, a wheelchair-bound tyrant with hypnotic powers, governs this supposedly utopian society, and he soon feels threatened by Michael when they begin to compete for the affections of Mary Moore. Michael can...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Unsigned Sight Size 20.50" x 17.00", Framed 25.00" x 21.50" A study for a Saturday Evening Post advertisement on September 18, 1926. Joseph Chr...

Medium: Pen, Ink, and Wash Details over Printed Background Signature: Printed Signature in Image, Right. Opening page for the July 1897 isssue of The Inland Printer...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Monogram Lower Left Sight Size 20.00" x 45.00", Framed 26.00" x 51.00" This piece was used for at least two separate Amoco advertisements. "A Real Happy New...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Mounted to Archival Board Signature: Unsigned Sight Size 17.625” x 14.375;" Framed 23.063” x 20.125" Custom Gilt Framing: Thanhardt Burger (formerly Newcomb Mac...

Date: Nov 28, 1925 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 14.00" x 11.20" Signature: Unsigned Study for Saturday Evening Post Cover, November 28, 1925

Medium: Oil on Board Dimensions: 25.25" x 27.50"

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. ...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: n/a Soldier's Pride was created as a component of Kuppenheimer's six-piece easel-backed World War I advertisement placards for in-store display. These pieces were expertly printed on a coated cardboard substrate so the black background would dramatically display the clothing item. Kuppenheimer & Hart Schaffner Marx...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Unsigned 'Goin' South' Saturday Evening Post Cover Study

Signature: Unsigned

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Unsigned The finished painting of this illustration was featured on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post, ...

Inscribed on back #174 House of Kuppeneheimer 1927 fashion advertisement, catalog cover.

Medium: Oil on Canvas March 10, 1917 Preliminary Study for The Saturday Evening Post Cover