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Vintage Magazine Fiction Illustrations

MissHannah

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Anybody else a fan of these? I especially love Al Parker and Coby Whitmore.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/leifpeng/sets/1502340/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/leifpeng/sets/1670817/

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LizzieMaine

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Wonderful stuff -- I think one of the great joys of reading fiction in vintage magazines is getting the full visual experience.

I think my favorite illustrator would have to be Ronald McLeod (no relation to me), who did a ton of work for Colliers from the twenties thru the forties --

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He had a very bold, colorful style that tended to reduce a scene to its graphic minimum, which worked for fiction illustration, as well as for covers and ads --

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MissHannah

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I've never seen it for sale in this country but I see copies on US Ebay from time to time. Seems to be about £15 plus the same for shipping to the UK. Does look fabulous though.
 

MissHannah

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Please do! They were also featured heavily in the Saturday Evening Post so if anybody has any copies have a little look through.
 

ThesFlishThngs

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Despite having been an art major in college, I won't pretend to have great knowledge of vintage illustrators (beyond the obvious and greatly famous), but I do adore the visuals in my old magazines.
I'll try to photograph some soon, to share. Some of you may know the artists.
 

MissHannah

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