> Hrm, I'm even an art major and I don't
recognize all of those names. Of course, I've
only been studying from the Paleolithic era to
around Baroque or so... not quite far enough. I
might very well recognize illustrations the
people I don't know straight off have done,
though.

Don't feel bad. I didn't know most of those
names until my last year of college, when I
took a (required) class called Communicative
Research.

I'm sure you know who Norman Rockwell
was. J.C. Leyendecker was his predecessor
and mentor at the _Saturday Evening Post_.
Haddon Sundblom is the artist who did all the
Santa Clause paintings you see on
Coca-Cola cans and bottles every Christmas.

J.M. Flagg, of course, is the illustrator famous
for the "Uncle Sam" character. He invented
Uncle Sam, and in fact used his own face as
the model for it.

Howard Pyle is considered the "Father of
Modern Illustration" and although a lot of
people don't realize it, he created the character
of Robin Hood and wrote and illustrated the
tales of Sherwood, Nottingham, et al.

I wonder if Maxfield Parrish was one of the
names you recognized? He did a lot of really
interesting stuff. He has a color named after
him (Maxfield Parrish blue.)

N.C. Wyeth is the one I'm least familiar with. I
think he did a lot of children's book
illustrations. He was a student of Howard
Pyle.

James Christensen is (I believe) the only one
of the artists I mentioned who is alive and
working today. He does a lot of fantasy
illustration, and his work is very distinctive. I
have one of his books. It's coool.

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