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Between 1896 and 1950, J.C. Leyendecker painted more than four hundred magazine covers. During 'The Golden Age of American Illustration', the Saturday Evening Post alone commissioned J. C. Leyendecker to produce 323 covers as well as many advertisement illustrations for its interior pages. No other artist, until the arrival of Norman Rockwell two decades later, was so solidly identified with one publication.
Men's fashion was probably the most significant aspect of Leyendecker's advertising opus, but his artwork was also used to promote a host of other products, including soap, automobiles, and cigarettes. And starting in 1912, he captured the hearts of American mothers through his series of cherubic infants, winsome children and wholesome adolescents enjoying bowls of Kellogg's Corn Flakes.
[Leyendecker] virtually invented the whole idea of modern magazine design in the early part of the century," says Fullerton Museum Center curator Richard Smith. "While Leyendecker's work is not that well known, people will walk away from the experience of seeing his originals thinking they know a little more about illustration and the master of it that Leyendecker was.
{{cite news}}: Обслуговування CS1: Сторінки з параметром url-status, але без параметра archive-url (посилання)Between 1896 and 1950, J.C. Leyendecker painted more than four hundred magazine covers. During 'The Golden Age of American Illustration', the Saturday Evening Post alone commissioned J. C. Leyendecker to produce 323 covers as well as many advertisement illustrations for its interior pages. No other artist, until the arrival of Norman Rockwell two decades later, was so solidly identified with one publication.
Men's fashion was probably the most significant aspect of Leyendecker's advertising opus, but his artwork was also used to promote a host of other products, including soap, automobiles, and cigarettes. And starting in 1912, he captured the hearts of American mothers through his series of cherubic infants, winsome children and wholesome adolescents enjoying bowls of Kellogg's Corn Flakes.