Joseph Christian Leyendecker
1874 - 1951
Carousel Ride
signed with monogrammed initials JLC (lower right)
oil on canvas
31 1/4 by 23 inches
(79.4 by 58.4 cm)
Painted in 1930.
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Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1998
Jan Cohn, Covers of 'The Saturday Evening Post:' Seventy Years of Outstanding Illustration from America's Favorite Magazine, New York, 1998, p. 142, illustrated
Walt Reed, The Illustrator in America, 1860-2000, New York, 2001, p. 151
Laurence S. Cutler and Judy Goffman Cutler, J.C. Leyendecker, New York, 2008, p. 151, illustrated
New York, Dahesh Museum of Art, Stories to Tell: Masterworks from the Golden Age of American Illustration, February-May 2006, no. 49, p. 52, illustrated
New York, Society of Illustrators, Americans Abroad: J. C. Leyendecker and the European Academic Influence on American Illustration, May-July 2008
Malibu, California, The Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Illustrating Modern Life: The Golden Age of American Illustration, January-March 2013