illostribute.com | investigation through interpretation
Tuesday Morning Inspiration
Inclement weather has turned Monday into Tuesday. Bob Peak Soligó Sam Fischer Mitch O’Connell Erich Sokol Artist unknown…if anyone knows please tell. Update: This is British illustrator Bruce Angrave, thanks to reader Patrick Vasco Gromy. Thanks Patrick! Now that signature doesn’t look quite so indecipherable. Joseph Cleary J.C. Leyendecker Russell Patterson Norman Rockwell
J.C. Leyendecker
The preeminent American illustrator for the first three decades of the Twentieth Century, J.C. Leyendecker’s influence has encompassed a countless number of visual artists, while spanning several generations. His emphatic brushwork and heroic, young men, have stamped an indelible image of sophistication and virility, upon America’s visual conscience. Joseph Christian Leyendecker was born in Germany in [...]