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
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
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
New Hampshire Hills, Landscape Painting
By Maxfield Parrish
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1932
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 23.00" x 18.63"
Framed Dimensions: 33.00" x 28.63"
Signature: inscribed MP Jr. No. 76. / Painted by Maxfield Parrish / Maxfield Parrish
I...
Category
1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
J.C. Leyendecker Self-Portrait, Kuppenheimer Stylebook, Interior Illustration
By Joseph Christian Leyendecker
Located in Fort Washington, PA
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. ...
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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.
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Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
“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
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
First Airplane Ride, Original cover illustration for Collier's
By Joseph Christian Leyendecker
Located in Fort Washington, PA
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 ...
Category
Early 1900s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Talking to Joyce" Original Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Artwork Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 in.
Framed Dimensions: 15 x 12.5 in.
Medium: Graphite and wash on paper
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
Early 1900s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
"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
I Know That Man, Advertisement for Cream of Wheat
By Jessie Willcox Smith
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original advertisement for Cream of Wheat, published 1909.
Literature
Dave Stivers, Nabisco Brands Collection of Cream of Wheat Advertising...
Category
Early 1900s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Watercolor
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
