/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>4428460
I saw the Leyendecker book at The Strand in Manhattan, but a quick price check on Amazon told me I'd regret paying MSRP for it there, so I added it to my wishlist. My wife then scoped out my wishlist and got it for me as a gift when Fathers Day came around. I'm happy to have it, but you'll understand why I am reluctant to disassemble the book to scan it.

That's why it's so painstaking to get these. I waited for the right time of day to get good sunlight, took each picture with my phone - some multiple times - and then cropped and rotated them. The original requestor was particularly interested in Leyendecker's Arrow advertisements, so I focused on those, and a few other works I found in the book where he painted in the same style.

The book is ginormous - 255 pages - and over a third of the book is a section in the middle reproducing his covers for the Saturday Evening Post nine to a page. That was the gig that really made him famous and, although Norman Rockwell is more well-known for it, Leyendecker was there first (Rockwell really kinda muscled in and took his job), and actually painted *more* covers for the SEP than Rockwell did!