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"The Screen Door" Edward Dufner, Pastel Blue, Impressionist, Female Figure
By Edward Dufner
Located in New York, NY
illustration work for Life, Harper's and Scribner's magazines.
Five years later, in 1898, Dufner went to Paris
Category
1920s American Impressionist Antique Life Magazines
Materials
Oil, Board
Victor Max Ninon 1920 Art Deco Venice Carneval Pochoir Set of 2
Located in Brescia, IT
period with his wife and collaborated with the magazine «Country Life», but despite the recognition and
Category
1920s Art Deco Antique Life Magazines
Materials
Wood, Paper
Art nouveau style poster by Lewis Baumer
Located in PARIS, FR
for the British magazine Punch, beginning in 1897. He was also a portrait and still life painter
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Antique Life Magazines
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Art nouveau style poster by Lewis Baumer
Located in PARIS, FR
for the British magazine Punch, beginning in 1897. He was also a portrait and still life painter
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Antique Life Magazines
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
19th century woodcut print figurative Victorian American urban city scene
By Winslow Homer
Located in Milwaukee, WI
and rural New England life to magazines such as Ballou's Pictorial and Harper's Weekly at a time when
Category
1850s Realist Antique Life Magazines
Materials
Woodcut
Golden Autumn, Adirondacks
By Paul Bernard King
Located in Milford, NH
NY Art Students League with Henry S. Mowbray. While a student, he became an illustrator for Life and
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Antique Life Magazines
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bucks County Winter Landscape
By Paul Bernard King
Located in Milford, NH
illustrator for Life and Harper’s magazines, and went on to become well known for his portraits, landscapes
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Antique Life Magazines
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Stony Brook
By Paul Bernard King
Located in Milford, NH
Life and Harper’s magazines, and went on to become well known for his portraits, landscapes, rural
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Antique Life Magazines
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Standing Woman
By Charles Allan Gilbert
Located in Fort Washington, PA
. His many magazine appearances included The Ladies' Home Journal, Vogue, Life, Woman's Home Companion
Category
Early 1900s Other Art Style Antique Life Magazines
Materials
Board, Color
"Wrought Iron and It
s Decorative Use" by Maxwell Ayrton
Arnold Silcock
By Maxwell Ayrton, Arnold Silcock
Located in valatie, NY
craft of wrought iron throughout England. It was published by the British magazine "County Life Ltd
Category
Early 20th Century American Antique Life Magazines
Materials
Paper
Foul Rope (Left)
— Early American Southwest Rodeo
By William Robinson Leigh
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
adventures were chronicled in several popular magazines, including Life, the Saturday Evening Post, and
Category
1920s Realist Antique Life Magazines
Materials
Etching
19th century engraving figurative landscape Victorian urban city scene signed
By Winslow Homer
Located in Milwaukee, WI
and rural New England life to magazines such as Ballou's Pictorial and Harper's Weekly at a time when
Category
1870s Academic Antique Life Magazines
Materials
Engraving
19th century woodcut engraving print figurative American forest trees scene
By Winslow Homer
Located in Milwaukee, WI
. He contributed illustrations of Boston life and rural New England life to magazines such as Ballou's
Category
1850s Victorian Antique Life Magazines
Materials
Engraving, Woodcut
"Monhegan Island, Maine, " Edward Dufner, American Impressionism Landscape View
By Edward Dufner
Located in New York, NY
Siddons Mowbray, figure painter and muralist. He also did illustration work for Life, Harper's and
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Antique Life Magazines
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"The Flapper" by F.X. Leyendecker-1922 Life Magazine Cover Art
Located in Oradell, NJ
1922 issue of "Life" magazine. Both Franz Xavier and his brother, J.C. Leyendecker, had been prominent
Category
Early 20th Century American Art Deco Antique Life Magazines
Portrait of a Lady by Leon Kroll
By Leon Kroll 1
Located in Hudson, NY
American painter and lithographer. A figurative artist described by Life magazine as "the dean of U.S. nude
Category
Early 1900s American Art Deco Antique Life Magazines
Materials
Paint
U.S. Vintage WWI Propaganda Poster ‘Wake Up America’ by James Montgomery Flagg
By James Montgomery Flagg
Located in New York, NY
published since the age of 12, including big publications like LIFE Magazine. Flagg became very well known
Category
1910s American Art Deco Antique Life Magazines
Materials
Paper
Victorian Mourning Interior Scene
By C. Clyde Squires
Located in Minneapolis, MN
A moving and large Victorian era interior illustration presumably for the old LIFE magazine. An
Category
Early 1900s Victorian Antique Life Magazines
Materials
Board, Charcoal, Mixed Media
White Bathing Costume by Becker on Austrian Beach, 1956
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
White Bathing Costume by Becker on Austrian Beach -- Photographed by Mark Shaw for a LIFE magazine
Category
1850s Modern Antique Life Magazines
Materials
Giclée
Henry Kallem, American Abstract landscape, American 1912-1985
By Henry Kallem
Located in Hallowell, ME
consternation because of his abstract style, and Life magazine, August 1948, ran an article referencing the
Category
1920s Abstract Impressionist Antique Life Magazines
Materials
Oil
Charles Dana Gibson Original Sanguine Drawing Hand Signed Portrait Artwork SBO
By Charles Dana Gibson
Located in Bloomington, MN
first artwork to LIFE magazine at the age of 19. He became synonymous with the Gibson Girl, who was
Category
19th Century Antique Life Magazines
Materials
Chalk
The Spoils of War
By Orson Lowell
Located in Minneapolis, MN
illustrations for The Choir Invisible. By 1907, he was employed at LIFE magazine, at that time a humor
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Antique Life Magazines
Materials
Ink, Pen
Picasso (A Collection of Books and Articles)
By (after) Pablo Picasso
Located in New York, NY
Collection of Picasso Books and Magazines featuring Picasso (Life Special Double Issue) and
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Antique Life Magazines
Midsummer
By Edward Dufner
Located in Concord, MA
did illustration work for Life, Harper's and Scribner's magazines.
Five years later, in 1898, Dufner
Category
1920s American Impressionist Antique Life Magazines
Materials
Oil
Bathing Beauties, Berlin
By Martin Munkacsi
Located in New York, NY
fashion photography. His widely imitated spontaneity and action brought magazine fashions to life and
Category
1920s Antique Life Magazines
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Spanish Harbor Marine
By Paul King
Located in Washington, DC
Life and Harper’s magazines, and the American Book Company Publications. King later participated in a
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Antique Life Magazines
Materials
Oil
Artisan Metalwork Chandelier, New Hope School Artist, Arts and Crafts Movement
By Morgan Colt
Located in Doylestown, PA
sources of information about his work is an article by Jesse Martin Breese, published in Country Life
Category
1920s Other Art Style Antique Life Magazines
Materials
Metal
Boys
Life Magazine Cover
By Remington Schuyler
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed by Artist
Cover of Boys' Life magazine, January 1920
Category
1920s Antique Life Magazines
Materials
Oil
Good Scouts, Life Magazine Cover
By Norman Rockwell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Right
Cover of Life Magazine, November 8, 1924
Good Scouts, Girl Scouts Number, this Norman Rockwell
Category
1920s Antique Life Magazines
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Birthdays For Everybody" Original humor illustration for Life magazine
By Orson Byron Lowell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Adventures in Living” by Helen Ring Robinson for Life magazine, published 1915. Helen Ring Robinson (1878
Category
1910s Antique Life Magazines
Materials
Paper, Ink, Graphite
Antique Arts
Crafts Gustav Stickley Oak Tree of Life Magazine Stand C1900
By Gustav Stickley
Located in Big Flats, NY
An antique Arts and Crafts magazine stand by Gustav Stickley offers oak construction in flared form
Category
Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Antique Life Magazines
Materials
Oak
Set of Six Hand-Colored Engravings from Curtis
s Botanical Magazine
By William Curtis
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
"Hemanthus Tigrinus (Tiger-Spotted Blood-Flower)"
Portfolio: The Botanical Magazine
Year: 1787-1815
Medium
Category
1780s Victorian Antique Life Magazines
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper, Engraving, Intaglio
Set of Six Botanical Hand-Colored Engravings from Curtis
s Botanical Magazine
Located in New York, NY
Founded by William Curtis in 1787, Curtis's Botanical Magazine is the longest continuously
Category
Early 19th Century Antique Life Magazines
Materials
Laid Paper, Engraving
1920s Bronze Butterfly Girl Bookends
Located in Hixson, TN
reportedly based on the Feb. 7, 1922 Life Magazine cover illustration titled "The Flapper" by Francis X
Category
Early 20th Century American Art Nouveau Antique Life Magazines
Materials
Bronze
$800 / item
Orson Byron Lowell Pen and Ink on Paper Titled "Deciding What to Wear", 1910
By Orson Lowell
Located in Kingston, NY
appropriate fashionable attire for an event. The work is signed, publication Life Magazine 1910 and measures
Category
Early 20th Century Antique Life Magazines
Materials
Other
The Questionnaire
By Charles Dana Gibson
Located in Fort Washington, PA
drawing and indicates that it was published August 4, 1921, in LIFE Magazine. The drawing is dedicated to
Category
1920s Antique Life Magazines
Materials
Paper, Ink
Black and White House, Eardisland in Herefordshire"
By Frank Moss Bennett
Located in ludlow, GB
restored (hopefully back to its former glory).
Curiously, the house was on the front cover of Country Life
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Antique Life Magazines
Materials
Oil
“There’s nothing like a motor for giving me ideas for new dance steps" cartoon
By Orson Lowell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
illustration for Life magazine, published December 31, 1914
Signed lower left
Lowell moved from Chicago to
Category
1910s Other Art Style Antique Life Magazines
Materials
Ink, Paper, Pen
Wharf at Monhegan
By Charles Ebert
Located in Wiscasset, ME
political cartoonist for Life Magazine. Well known for his paintings of Monhegan Island and Old Lyme
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Antique Life Magazines
Materials
Etching
James Montgomery Flagg Uncle Sam World War I Poster
By James Montgomery Flagg
Located in Manhasset, NY
promise at a young age and even secured an illustration contract at the age of 14 with "Life" magazine
Category
Early 20th Century American American Classical Antique Life Magazines
Art Deco Fortune Magazine Cover, March 1936
Located in Dallas, TX
did covers and other illustrations for “Life”, “Fortune”, and “Yachting” magazines, and the
Category
Early 20th Century American Art Deco Antique Life Magazines
Materials
Paper
Dog Wood Tree
By Robert Emmett Owen
Located in Milford, NH
supporting himself by working at a local establishment, he contributed pen and ink drawings to Life Magazine
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Antique Life Magazines
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Love of Life
By Ernest Leonard Blumenschein
Located in Fort Washington, PA
LITERATURE: Jack London, illustration from "Love of Life," first published by McClure's Magazine, Vol. 26
Category
Early 1900s Antique Life Magazines
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Man in Rigging
By Anton Otto Fischer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Fischer's dramatic paintings of this experience were published by Life magazine. The pictures are now in the
Category
1910s Other Art Style Antique Life Magazines
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Laying The Hose Pipe Ghost, Harpers New Monthly Magazine
By Anton Otto Fischer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
illustrations for Harper's, Everybody's Magazine, Life, The Metropolitan, Cosmopolitan, Scribner's. One of his
Category
1910s Other Art Style Antique Life Magazines
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Boy Holding Pumpkin Carving of Teddy Roosevelt
By Joseph Christian Leyendecker
Located in New Orleans, LA
of his career, he would also paint covers for Life magazine, illustrations for a library of books
Category
Early 20th Century Other Art Style Antique Life Magazines
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Three Wise Men
By Joseph Christian Leyendecker
Located in New Orleans, LA
esteemed publication. Over the course of his career, he would also paint covers for Life magazine
Category
Early 20th Century Other Art Style Antique Life Magazines
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nude With Mask
By Russell Cowles
Located in Los Angeles, CA
from the Art Institute of Chicago.
He was featured in Life Magazine February 9, 1948, pg.74 (article
Category
1920s Art Deco Antique Life Magazines
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Charles II Tankard and Cover Made in London by John Duck, 1681
Located in London, GB
have offered over the years. It will be featured in the August 23rd, 2023, issue of Country Life
Category
17th Century English Charles II Antique Life Magazines
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
"Be a U.S. Marine!" Vintage WWI Recruitment Poster by James M. Flagg, circa 1917
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
prodigious illustrator, working as a contributing artist to Life magazine at the surprisingly young age of 14
Category
1910s American Antique Life Magazines
Materials
Paper
Melody
By Orson Lowell
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
entry). Illustr. of many books & contrib. of illustr. to national magazines. Positions: staff, Life
Category
Early 1900s American Realist Antique Life Magazines
Materials
Graphite, Illustration Board
The Sleuth By Joseph Christian Leyendecker
By Joseph Christian Leyendecker
Located in New Orleans, LA
paint covers for Life magazine, illustrations for a library of books and transform advertising for such
Category
Early 20th Century Other Art Style Antique Life Magazines
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Royal Academy Oil Painting of Charles II and Beauties of French Court Versailles
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
article in Country Life magazine.
Presentation: Fine quality original mid-19th century carved and gilded
Category
1840s English School Antique Life Magazines
Materials
Oil
Hand Hammered Arts and Crafts Style Wrought Iron Fire Box
By Morgan Colt
Located in Lambertville, NJ
article by Jesse Martin Breese, published in Country Life Magazine, February 1926, and titled "Morgan Colt
Category
1910s Aesthetic Movement Antique Life Magazines
Materials
Iron
Book Cover for "Resurrection" by Edwin Balmer, 1920
By Anton Otto Fischer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
for Harper's, Everybody's Magazine, Life, The Metropolitan, Cosmopolitan, Scribner's. One of his
Category
1920s Other Art Style Antique Life Magazines
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Drawing Study" Charles Burchfield, American Modernism Design
By Charles E. Burchfield
Located in New York, NY
1936 Life magazine declared him one of America’s ten greatest painters in its article "Burchfield’s
Category
Early 20th Century Abstract Antique Life Magazines
Materials
Paper, Pencil
City Scape
By Abraham Walkowitz
Located in Los Angeles, CA
discussed and was featured in Life Magazine in 1944.
In 1945, Walkowitz travelled to Kansas where he
Category
1910s Cubist Antique Life Magazines
Materials
Charcoal, Watercolor
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Antique Life Magazines For Sale on 1stDibs
There is a broad range of antique life magazines for sale on 1stDibs. These items have been produced for many years, with earlier versions available from the 19th Century and newer variations made as recently as the 20th Century. You can search the antique life magazines that we have for sale on 1stDibs by color — popular works were created in bold and neutral palettes with elements of beige, blue, brown and gold. Many versions of these artworks are appealing in their rich colors and composition, but Orson Byron Lowell, Harrison Fisher, Maxfield Parrish, Clarence Coles Phillips and Paul C. Stahr produced especially popular works that are worth a look. The range of these distinct pieces — often created in paint, paper and board — can elevate any room of your home.
How Much are Antique Life Magazines?
The average selling price for antique life magazines we offer is $10,750, while they’re typically $95 on the low end and $250,000 for the highest priced.
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