Study for Charity, Cover of The Inland Printer
Date1897
Artist
Joseph Christian Leyendecker
(American painter and illustrator, 1874–1951)
Illustration CitationCover, The Inland Printer, December 1897
MediumCrayon, chalk, and watercolor on paper
Dimensionssheet: 24 1/4 × 18 1/4 in. (61.6 × 46.4 cm)
mat: 26 × 20 in. (66 × 50.8 cm)
mat: 26 × 20 in. (66 × 50.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1984
Object number1984-18
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextThis is a study for one of the twelve Inland Printer covers for which J. C. Leyendecker was contracted in 1897. He later designed other covers for the magazine as well. An 1898 article in Brush and Pencil: An Illustrated Magazine of the Arts Today noted the title for this cover was Charity.
Joseph Christian Leyendecker
c. 1897
Joseph Christian Leyendecker
1918
