America's Great Illustrators

ISBN-10
0810906635
ISBN-13
9780810906631
Category
Illustration of books
Pages
311
Language
English
Published
1978-01-01
Publisher
Abrams
Author
Susan E. Meyer

Description

Profiles the lives and works of ten American illustrators: Howard Pyle, N.C. Wyeth, Frederic Remington, Charles Dana Gibson, Maxfield Parrish, Norman Rockwell, J.C. Leyendecker, Howard Chandler Christy, James Montgomery Flagg, and John Held, Jr.

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