Cover for The Saturday Evening Post, March 19,1904
Date1904
Artist
Walter Whitehead
(American illustrator, 1874–1956)
Illustration CitationCover for The Saturday Evening Post, March 10, 1904
MediumCharcoal, graphite, watercolor, and gouache on illustration board
Dimensionssheet: 18 × 10 in. (45.7 × 25.4 cm)
Credit LineGayle and Alene Hoskins Endowment Fund, 1982
Object number1982-56
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextWalter Whitehead was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1874, where he studied at the Art Institute of Chicago before joining the Howard Pyle School of Art and Pyle's Chadds Ford summer school in 1901-02. He later returned to Chicago and eventually taught at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. Whitehead produced magazine covers, war posters, and advertisements. Around the turn of the 20th century, editors favored historical figures-real and imaginary-on popular magazine covers in order to engender a sense of nationalism in their far-flung readers across the country.
Joseph Christian Leyendecker
1918
Joseph Christian Leyendecker
1918
