150+ Gibson  illustrations include; Award winning magazine covers for Life and Scribner's, College Girls, The Century Magazine and Harper's Weekly. Posters that assisted in the war effort for the Army and Navy. Also, dozens of his famous Edwardian Gibson Girl illustrations.

Charles Dana Gibson was born in Roxbury, MA. By age eleven, he was an apprentice to architect George Post. He also formally trained at the Art Students League. He is most well known for his illustrations of beautiful women during the early twentieth century. The women were refined, aloof and fashionable. Gibson's women characterized the ideal American lady at the time. So was born "The Gibson Girl". Gibson later bought Life Magazine and worked as the editor until the 1930's.

 Image screen sizes average 1024 x 768 at 300 dpi.

200 Icart illustrations of early 20th century French fashion, theatre, and romance.

Louis Icart was born in Toulouse, France. He began drawing at an early age, and was particularly interested in fashion. He became famous for his sketches almost immediately. Icart worked with the couturiers with major fashion shows in Paris. He quickly learned the basics of designing gowns, dresses and miscellaneous essentials of the femine wardrobe. There was a significant transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth century fashion. Women wanted clothes that clung to their bodies rather than bellowing out. The new look was so appealing that most fashion houses adapted it according to their own tastes. Icart illustratred with the new trend.
Art Deco, a term coined at the 1925 Paris Exposition des Arts Decoratifs, had taken its grip on the Paris of the 1920s. By the late 1920s Icart, working for both publications and major fashion and design studios, had become very successful, both artistically and financially. His etchings reached their height of brilliance in this era of Art Deco, and Icart had become the symbol of the epoch. Although, Icart had created for us a picture of Paris and New York life in the 1920s and 1930s, he worked in his own style, derived principally from the study of eighteenth-century French masters such as Jean Antoine Watteau, François Boucher and Jean Honoré Fragonard.

 Image screen sizes average 1650 x 1280 at 300 dpi.

130+ Phillip's illustrations include his fabulous Fadeaway Girls that appeared in Good Housekeeping and Life Magazines. Advertising illustrations for Palmolive and Scranton, Community Plate, Carola Phonograph and Oneida, and more. Additional magazine covers for The Ladies Home Journal, Collier's, The Saturday Evening Post and Sunday Magazine. Also, his wonderful book and poster illustrations.

The Fadeaway Girl was the hallmark of Coles Phillips. Phillips pictured fashionable young women, using the device of tying the figure into the background by either color, value or pattern. This approach produced an intriguing poster-like effect of great simplicity, yet it was based on the most careful preliminary planning of shapes to carry out the illusion of the full figure.
When Life Magazine began to use color on its covers in 1908, the Fadeaway Girl made her initial appearance and was an instant success. For many years thereafter she appeared in a variety of guises, but was always the patrician beauty.

 Image screen sizes average 1024 x 768, 800 x 600 at 300 dpi.