Cover for The Ladies' Home Journal, February 1905
Date1905
Artist
Alice Barber Stephens
(American painter, illustrator, and printmaker, 1858–1932)
Illustration CitationCover for The Ladies Home Journal, February 1905
MediumGouache and charcoal on illustration board
Dimensionssheet: 27 9/16 × 21 5/8 in. (70 × 54.9 cm)
frame: 34 1/4 × 28 1/4 in. (87 × 71.8 cm)
frame: 34 1/4 × 28 1/4 in. (87 × 71.8 cm)
Credit LineLouisa du Pont Copeland Memorial Fund, 1975
Object number1975-64
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextAfter studying at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, Alice Barber Stephens worked as a wood engraver before going on to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where she studied with Thomas Eakins. She then continued her art training in Paris. From the mid-1880s, her illustrations appeared in many major magazines; she also produced advertising art, including a campaign for Ivory Soap. This untitled cover the The Ladies' Home Journal depicts an upper-class woman sitting outdoors in a garden.
Alice Barber Stephens
1905
