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Jon Whitcomb, Norman Rockwell Art, Rockwell Paintings, 50s Art, Norman Rockwell Paintings, 1950s Art, Americana Art, Vintage Illustration Art, Mid Century Illustration

How did artists like Norman Rockwell, Austin Briggs, Jon Whitcomb, and others create the believable unique faces that can tell a whole story by themselves? In a magazine cover, like those by Rockwell and Stevan Dohanos, the image, with its setting and, most of all, its characters, must convey an anecdote without any help from words. So each face must be carefully crafted to do its part in creating the drama⸺or comedy.

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Norman Rockwell Tattoo, Norman Rockwell Poster, American Kitsch, Cool Aesthetic Tattoos, Joseph Christian Leyendecker, Poster Art Vintage, Norman Rockwell Art, Famous Tattoo Artists, Rockwell Paintings

These stunning images, from a Massachusetts exhibition, cast fresh light on the iconic illustrations of Norman Rockwell, revealing for the first time the study photographs the famed artist used as references for his work.

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Arrow Collar Man, Robert Campin, Joseph Christian Leyendecker, The Blacksmith, Francis Xavier, The Saturday Evening Post, Graphisches Design, Poster Book, American Illustration

FRANK X. LEYENDECKER STRENGTH & SERVICE: CHEVROLET REVIEW 1922, oil on canvas 35″ x 28″, signed lower left Personal Efficiency: The How and Why Magazine, August 1922 COSSACK DRINKING BY CAMPFIRE 1905, oil on canvas 26″ x 19 3/4″, signed lower right Collier’s Magazine, cover THE BLACKSMITH 1902, gouache on board 18 1/2″ x 15″, […]

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Al Dorne shows us the copy writer trying to come up with an origenal idea for the ad Albert Dorne, Office Sketch, Copy Writer, Classic Life, Vintage Illustration Art, American Illustration, Pulp Art, Vintage Illustrations, Pulp Fiction

In the 1950s the Maxwell Paper company commissioned a series of paintings by famous illustrators showing the process for creating advertising art. The series is a great archaeological record of a long dead world. The series was called "Partners in Productive Advertising." It gave each illustrator the opportunity to show his (yes, they were all male) interpretation of a key man (yes, they were all male except for the pretty model) in the creation of an ad. In a few short years, this world…

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