Walt Reed Illustration Archive

Artstor has the Walt Reed illustration Archive online here. Reed was the author of The Illustrator in America and the founder of The Illustration House. This collection consists of over 200,000 magazine tear sheets depicting works by American illustrators from the late 19th century well into the mid 20th century. Posted below are a few samples I found from just a few minutes browsing.

Unknown artist.

N.C. Wyeth

Coby Whitmore

Arthur Sarnoff

Rockwell Kent

Pepsi-Cola!

Here's a nice Pepsi-Cola ad by Coby Whitmore.

Illustrator Coby Whitmore

While looking around for some biographical information on illustrator Coby Whitmore, I realized I couldn't distill his life and what makes him so appealing as well as Leif Peng's writeup in his always informative blog Today's Inspiration. Leif's Flickr set of Whitmore here, and this page has some nice Whitmore galleries.

Below are a few more samples of Whitmore's work: