During 'The Golden Age of American Illustration', the Saturday Evening Post alone commissioned J. Leyendecker painted more than four hundred magazine covers. National Museum of American Illustration. Wyeth, Charles Livingston Bull, and John E. Other notable cover illustrators include J.C.

soon came to define the fashionable American male of the early 20th century. His creation of the 'Arrow Collar Man' in 1905, as well as the images he created for Kuppenheimer Suits, Interwoven Socks and the Cooper Underwear CompanyВ . He is best known for his cover work for Collier's magazine and the Saturday Evening Post, for which he produced more covers for than any other artist. ^ 'The Haggin Museum Leyendecker Collection returns to public display MayвЂ“December 2010'.and younger brother Frank enrolled in the AcadГ©mie Julian in Paris for a year, where they were exposed to the work of Toulouse-Lautrec, Jules ChГ©ret, and also Alphonse Mucha, a leader in the French Art Nouveau movement. Vanderpoel at the Chicago Art Institute, J. ДЄfter studying drawing and anatomy under John H. The poster was for the book One Fair Daughter by Frank Frankfort Moore. Weeks was a Chicago Publisher between 18. The book covers were provided courtesy of E.A. The article also featured a sketch and two book covers he had illustrated. Manz & Company as well as his intention to study in Paris. In 1895 the April-September issue of Inland Printer had an introduction to J.C.

sought formal artistic training at the school of the Chicago Art Institute. Manz & Company, and completing his first commercial commission of 60 Bible illustrations for the Powers Brothers Company, J. After working in late adolescence for a Chicago engraving firm, J. In 1882, the Leyendecker family immigrated to Chicago, Illinois, where Elizabeth's brother Adam Ortseifen was vice-president of the successful McAvoy Brewing Company. A sister, Mary Augusta, the third and last child, arrived after the family emigrated to America. Joseph was the first-born son, and his brother Francis Xavier was born three years later. Joseph Christian Leyendecker ('J.C.' or 'Joe') was born on March 23, 1874, at Montabaur in western Germany, a tiny village 18km east of the Rhine, to Peter Leyendecker (1838вЂ“1916) and Elizabeth Ortseifen Leyendecker (1845вЂ“1905).

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