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The popular art of American magazine illustration: 1885-1917

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From: Journalism History
Date: 19981001
Author:Brown, Michael

Thomas Moran, Frederic Remington, Howard Pyle, Joseph Pennell, and Charles Dana Gibson were among the featured artists in seventeen illustrations reprinted in Century magazine illustrations were figure 1). The illustrations were selected from "the wealth of material made expressly for the magazine" and were presented to demonstrate Century's forty-year commitment to American aesthetic and technical progress in the fine arts.1 By 1911 illustrators were recognized as uniquely American artists, and Century was celebrating its role in presenting the fine art of illustration to the American ...

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