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Westley Snyder (1911-1982) - If You'd Only Listen - (Illustration McCall's - Gouache on board) (13 by 7) $4,500 Close-up
Westley Snyder (1911-1982) - If You'd Only Listen - (Illustration McCall's - Gouache on board) (13 by 7) $4,500 Close-up


Original illustration art has been known to attract high prices at auction. The US artist Norman Rockwell's painting "Breaking Home Ties" sold in a 2006 Sotheby's auction for US $15.4 million. A background of diverse illustrators are listed here.

In America, there has been a "golden age of illustration" from before the 1880s until the early 20th century. Among the best-known illustrators of that period were N.C. Wyeth and Howard Pyle of the Brandywine School, James Montgomery Flagg, Elizabeth Shippen Green, J. C. Leyendecker, Violet Oakley, Maxfield Parrish, Jessie Willcox Smith, and John Rea Neill. more...