Honoured by the National Museum of American Illustration.

The artist who gave his unique style to the Arrow Shirt and whose work had a major influence on American illustration was the prolific and consistently professional J.C. Leyendecker.

For over half a century, his work set the standard for magazine illustration and he was admired and emulated by an entire generation of younger artists.

Between 1896 and 1950, J.C. Leyendecker painted more than four hundred magazine covers.

During ‘The Golden Age of American Illustration’, for the Saturday Evening Post alone, Leyendecker produced 322 covers, as well as many advertising illustrations including his characterizations of the man in the Arrow Shirt.

No other artist, until the arrival of Norman Rockwell two decades later, was so solidly identified with one publication.

SEE THE LEYENDECKER STYLE HERE.