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
New Hampshire Hills
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
Peeking at the Christmas Tree, Probable Magazine Cover Illustration
By Revere Wistehuff
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original illustration, likely produced as a magazine cover. The image features a child and his dog peeking at his parents who are decorating the Christmas tree.
Medium: Oil on canv...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Shoo Chickens!" Study for the cover of The Saturday Evening Post
By Joseph Christian Leyendecker
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original study for the cover illustration of The Saturday Evening Post, published June 2, 1923
Medium: Oil on canvas
Artwork Dimensions: 21.5 x 15.75 in.
Framed Dimensions: 25 x 18...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Original JAX Beer Advertisement, Illustration of an Autumnal Hunting Scene
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original advertisement for JAX Beer (Jackson Brewing Company, New Orleans, LA), circa 1940s.
In this autumnal scene, a hunting party is enjoying JAX beer at their campsite when a bu...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
My Duty Towards my Neighbor, and My Duty Towards God (diptych)
By Maxfield Parrish
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Overall Dimensions, including artist frame: 54 x 80 in.
Each Painted Panel: 33 x 24 in.
Medium: Oil on Panel
Signature: Each panel signed and dated
Literature:
Coy Ludwig, Maxfiel...
Category
1890s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Puppies for Sale, Original magazine cover for The Saturday Evening Post
By Stevan Dohanos
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, September 30, 1950
Puppies for Sale, the cover illustration for the September 30, 1950, issue of The Saturday Evening Post, is a remarkable examp...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Little Girl Running from Waves, Original cover for The Saturday Evening Post
By Sarah S. Stilwell Weber
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post magazine, published July 23, 1921.
Despite her mentor’s advice, Stilwell Weber married in 1908, and her daughter Jane was b...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen, Panel
Girls Reading in the Grass, Original book cover for "A Little Maid of Virginia"
By Sarah S. Stilwell Weber
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Sarah Stilwell Weber's original cover illustration for Alice Turner Curtis's A Little Maid of Virginia, from Turner’s popular “Little Maid” series of historical fiction. This freshly...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Chinese Leader Portrait
By Charles Ellis
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Chinese Leader's Portrait
Charles F. Ellis passed on October 1st, 2004 at the age of 82. Mr. Ellis was hired
to teach illustration in 1971 at the newly opened Art Institute of P...
Category
20th Century Other Art Style Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
"The Thief" Story Illustration for Everybody's Magazine
By Franklin Booth
Located in Fort Washington, PA
"Where the pure child-face had first drifted across his bewildered vision." Illustration for "The Thief," by Constance Smedley, published in Everybody's Magazine, September, 1908, p....
Category
Early 1900s Paintings
Materials
Pencil
"Jekyll Becomes Hyde" Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
By Seymour Chwast
Located in Fort Washington, PA
"Jekyll Becomes Hyde." Original illustration for a German edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, (Frankfurt am Main and Vienna: Büchergilde Gute...
Category
1990s Paintings
Materials
Ink, Tempera
Temporary Father
By Robert Maguire
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Likely used on the cover of a paperback book
Category
Late 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
