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George III Mahogany Four-Poster Bed, Attributed to Gillows of Lancaster
By Gillows of Lancaster London
Located in Glasgow, GB
, Cambridgeshire and Keystone Manor in Huntingdon.?? In January 1965 Country Life Magazine wrote an article
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Late 18th Century English George III Antique Life Magazines

Materials

Fabric, Mahogany, Pine

"LEGGETT S" (FAMOUS NEW JERSEY RESTAURANT)
By John Rutherford Boyd
Located in Los Angeles, CA
national recognition through the article “Speaking of Pictures,” published in “Life Magazine” in 1949. He
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1920s Art Deco Antique Life Magazines

Materials

Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor, Gouache

Frankie and Johnnie (also HIM)
By John Sloan
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
important legacy for succeeding generations of American artists. After his death, Life Magazine asserted
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1920s Ashcan School Antique Life Magazines

Materials

Etching

19th Century William IV Side Cabinet
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
panels signed by the painter James Maggs of Bath and dated 1837. A cutting from an old magazine
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19th Century British Country Antique Life Magazines

Materials

Brass

Coastal Harbor Scene With Boats
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
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Antique Life Magazines

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Pianist
By Charles Allan Gilbert
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Journal, Vogue, Life, Woman's Home Companion, Scribner's Magazine, and Vanity Fair. Gilbert also invented
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Early 1900s Other Art Style Antique Life Magazines

Materials

Board, Chalk, Charcoal

Woman With Rose
By Charles Allan Gilbert
Located in Fort Washington, PA
The Little Minister. His many magazine appearances included The Ladies' Home Journal, Vogue, Life
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1910s Other Art Style Antique Life Magazines

Materials

Canvas, Pastel

Maine Docks
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
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Antique Life Magazines

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Moonlight
By Paul Bernard King
Located in Milford, NH
. While a student, he became an illustrator for Life and Harper’s magazines, and went on to become well
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Antique Life Magazines

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Ocean Liner Illustration (The New Yorker Cartoon)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
, finding work creating cover art, cartoons and illustrations for magazines like Esquire, Life and Collier’s
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1920s Realist Antique Life Magazines

Materials

Pastel, Gouache

Kneeling Nude
By Penrhyn Stanlaws
Located in Wiscasset, ME
, Life, The Metropolitan Magazine and Hearst’s International throughout the 1910’s and 1920’s. Highly
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1920s Impressionist Antique Life Magazines

Materials

Pastel

Important George III Classical Wine Cooler by William Eaton
Located in London, GB
national magazine, Country Life, on 14th February, 2018.  Measures: Height 9.25 inches, 23.13cm
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1820s English Antique Life Magazines

Vienna Art Deco Josef Hoffman Manner Eight-Piece Salon Suite Set
By Josef Hoffmann
Located in Forney, TX
courtship and life together for Chicago magazine, in an article entitled “I Married a Mad Man,” which was
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Early 20th Century Austrian Art Deco Antique Life Magazines

Materials

Brass

Set of Six Hand-Colored Engravings from Curtis s Botanical Magazine
By William Curtis
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
: The Botanical Magazine Year: 1793-1812 Medium: Set of Six Original Hand-Colored Engravings on wove
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1790s Victorian Antique Life Magazines

Materials

Watercolor, Engraving, Intaglio

Set of Six Hand-Colored Engravings from Curtis s Botanical Magazine /// Botany
By William Curtis
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
: The Botanical Magazine Year: 1804-1816 Medium: Set of Six Original Hand-Colored Engravings on wove
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Early 1800s Victorian Antique Life Magazines

Materials

Watercolor, Engraving, Intaglio

Set of Six Hand-Colored Engravings from Curtis s Botanical Magazine /// Botany
By William Curtis
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
: The Botanical Magazine; or, Flower-Garden Displayed Year: 1789-1810 (First-second series) Medium: Set
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1780s Victorian Antique Life Magazines

Materials

Watercolor, Engraving, Laid Paper, Intaglio

Lola Falana in the gym doing pull-ups photographed by Frank Dandridge, 1969.
By Frank D. Dandridge
Located in Cologne, DE
Dandridge was a freelance photojournalist who worked mainly for Life Magazine in the 60's.
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1660s Modern Antique Life Magazines

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Golf Painting by Charles Ambrose of Lionel Munn and Two Others
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
G.A.R". Taken from The Country Life Magazine Archives from their Tavistock Street offices. Country
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1910s British Sporting Art Antique Life Magazines

Materials

Paper

Young Girl With Black Cat
By Simka Simkhovitch
Located in New York, NY
very famous and was featured in Life Magazine. Signed and dated bottom center, 1929: Simkhovitch The
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Antique Life Magazines

Materials

Oil

{The Overlook}
By Freeman Baldridge
Located in Plano, TX
. Baldridge called them romantic unrealism ( courtesy of Dallas Life Magazine of The Dallas Morning News).
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Early 1900s Realist Antique Life Magazines

Materials

Oil

Royal Doulton Decorative Plates Featuring Charles Dana Gibson Illustrations
Located in Sheffield, MA
titled “The Widow and Her Friends” first appearing in Life Magazine and the artist’s 1901 book. Having
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Early 20th Century English Antique Life Magazines

Materials

Ceramic

Antique Kilkenny Marble Fireplace
By Frank Atkinson
Located in Tyrone, Northern Ireland
image) was described by ‘Country Life’ magazine in the early 1920’s as a ‘Lesser Country House’ and
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Early 20th Century English Georgian Antique Life Magazines

Materials

Marble

World War I Red Cross Propaganda Poster by James Montgomery Flagg
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
). Flagg was a prodigious illustrator, working as a contributing artist to "Life" magazine at the
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Early 20th Century American Antique Life Magazines

Young Girl in Green Dress
By Simka Simkhovitch
Located in New York, NY
New York and Life Magazine did feature stories on him and the art critics of the time praised his work
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1920s American Realist Antique Life Magazines

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Art Deco Fortune Magazine Cover December, 1936
Located in Dallas, TX
Hollywood before moving to New York in 1936. In New York, he worked for major magazines including Life
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Early 20th Century American Art Deco Antique Life Magazines

Materials

Paper

Original Tell That To The Marines! vintage World War 1 poster WW1
By James Montgomery Flagg
Located in Spokane, WA
years later he was drawing for Life magazine. He studied both in the U.S. and abroad in Paris, where he
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1910s American Realist Antique Life Magazines

Materials

Offset

Portraits of John Wood of Hollin Hall, Yorkshire; and Francis Wood (pair)
Located in West Sussex, GB
. Literature: Country Life Magazine, (John Wood ill. July 14,1988) Gallery notes: The canvases, unlined, have
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Early 18th Century Old Masters Antique Life Magazines

Materials

Oil

"I Want You for the U.S. Army" Original WWI Poster, James Montgomery Flagg, 1917
By James Montgomery Flagg
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
contributing artist to Life magazine at the surprisingly young age of 14. He is most famous for creating the
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1910s American Antique Life Magazines

Materials

Paper

"Be a U.S. Marine!" Vintage WWI Poster, by James Montgomery Flagg, 1918
By James Montgomery Flagg
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
contributing artist to Life magazine at the surprisingly young age of 14. He is most famous for creating the
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1910s American Antique Life Magazines

Materials

Paper

"Cottage in Giverny, France, " Arthur Burdett Frost, Antique French Landscape
By Arthur Burdett Frost
Located in New York, NY
Harper's Weekly, Scribner's, and Life magazines. Frost's illustrations always evoked the essence of a
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1910s American Impressionist Antique Life Magazines

Materials

Canvas, Oil

A New England Cottage Garden.Original Painting.Robert Emmett Owen. American Home
By Robert Emmett Owen
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
age 19, in 1897, he had several drawings accepted for publication by Life Magazine. The following year
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Antique Life Magazines

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Jacques Lipchitz, Two Figures, French Cubist Patinated Bronze Sculpture, 1923
By Jacques Lipchitz
Located in New York, NY
in the summer of 1949. He has been identified among seventy of those sculptors in a photograph Life
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1920s Italian Art Deco Antique Life Magazines

Materials

Bronze

Aviator and Woman in a White Hat by J.C. Leyendecker
By Joseph Christian Leyendecker
Located in New Orleans, LA
career, he would also paint covers for Life magazine, illustrations for a library of books, and transform
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Late 19th Century Other Art Style Antique Life Magazines

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Swinging in the Square (also In the Park )
By John Sloan
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
important legacy for succeeding generations of American artists. After his death, Life Magazine asserted
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1910s Ashcan School Antique Life Magazines

Materials

Etching

Portrait of F. Scott Fitzgerald napping
By James Montgomery Flagg
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
for both Judge and Life magazines, two of the nation¹s most successful periodicals. Flagg grew up in
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1920s American Impressionist Antique Life Magazines

Materials

Ink, Illustration Board, Pencil

Dog Portrait "Two Bulldogs-Best of Friends" Maud Earl (English, 1863-1943)
By Maud Earl
Located in SANTA FE, NM
the time of her relocation. Secord: “In an interview in Country Life magazine in May of 1921, she
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Early 1900s Art Nouveau Antique Life Magazines

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Indian Detour — 1920s New Mexico
By John Sloan
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
artists. After his death, Life Magazine asserted that no living man had a greater influence in the
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1920s Ashcan School Antique Life Magazines

Materials

Etching

Portrait of Lady Legh Seated Holding Flowers c.1693 English Aristocratic History
By Kneller Godfrey
Located in London, GB
seen hanging in the Drawing Room in a photograph taken by Country Life magazine in 1905 (see photo
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17th Century Old Masters Antique Life Magazines

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Oil on Canvas Western Scene by Remington Schuyler
Located in Essex, MA
after a distant cousin Frederick Remington. Worked as an illustrator for Life , and Century magazine
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Early 20th Century American Antique Life Magazines

Materials

Canvas

La Chasse a Tir Este Morte, Vive La Chasse A Courre! (Calling the Hounds)
By Joseph Kuhn-Regnier
Located in Fairlawn, OH
From: La Vie Parisienne Note: La Vie Parisienne (the Parisian life) was a French weekly magazine
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1920s Antique Life Magazines

Materials

Lithograph

"The Beach at Long Branch, " Woodcut Seascape by Winslow Homer
By Winslow Homer
Located in Milwaukee, WI
illustrator lasted nearly twenty years. He contributed illustrations of Boston life and rural New England life
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1860s Realist Antique Life Magazines

Materials

Woodcut

"Napoleon" from "Les Maitres de L Affiche" series
By Eugène Grasset
Located in Hinsdale, IL
Century magazine serialized anillustrated Life of Napoleon in 1893, Grasset was commissioned to design a
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1890s Art Nouveau Antique Life Magazines

Materials

Lithograph

Red Lion Inn (Stratford upon Avon)
By May Gearhart
Located in Fairlawn, OH
appeared on the cover of magazines like California Life (1922). In 1924, she and Frances had a two-person
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1910s Realist Antique Life Magazines

Materials

Watercolor

"Sunlight and Shade, " Edward Dufner, Lady with a Hat, American Impressionism
By Edward Dufner
Located in New York, NY
Siddons Mowbray, figure painter and muralist. He also did illustration work for Life, Harper's and
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1920s American Impressionist Antique Life Magazines

Materials

Oil, Board

"Ducks on the Lake, " Edward Dufner, Bird Landscape, American Impressionism
By Edward Dufner
Located in New York, NY
painter and muralist. He also did illustration work for Life, Harper's and Scribner's magazines. Five
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Antique Life Magazines

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Terracotta Scultpture Darwin Monkeys Life Magazine
Located in Oaks, PA
Darwin's Monkeys terracotta sculpture from Life Magazine 1897. Inscribed with "Is that really so
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1890s Antique Life Magazines

Materials

Terracotta

PAIR OF EBONIZED WILLIAM MARY STYLE PRICKET CANDLESTICKS
Located in Essex, MA
logo for LIFE magazine.
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19th Century American Antique Life Magazines

Early 19th Century Regency Period Carved Giltwood Armchair
Located in Bradford on Avon, GB
archive, 1914, in situ at Harewood House. Literature: Hartwell House, Country Life magazine, 21 March
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1850s English Regency Antique Life Magazines

Materials

Giltwood

Snowflakes
By Henry Hutt
Located in Minneapolis, MN
was considered to be somewhat of a child prodigy and sold his first illustration to LIFE magazine when
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19th Century American Realist Antique Life Magazines

Materials

Gouache, Illustration Board

A Warm Heart
By Orson Lowell
Located in Minneapolis, MN
prolific artist Orson Lowell. It appeared as the September 25, 1913 cover of Life Magazine's Heart To Heart
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1910s Victorian Antique Life Magazines

Materials

Board, Canvas, Oil

WOMEN DANCING (Dance of the Forest Nymphs)
By Warren B. Davis
Located in Los Angeles, CA
time, N.C. Wyeth and Maxfield Parrish. His commercial work include illustrations for Vanity Fair, Life
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Late 19th Century Antique Life Magazines

Materials

Oil, Board

Genuine 1920 Goyard Steamer Trunk from Hildegarde Collection
Located in Coral Gables, FL
the cover of LIFE magazine in 1939, was nicknamed the "First Lady of Supper Clubs" by Eleanor
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Early 20th Century French Antique Life Magazines

Country Life In America Set of 24 Bound Volumes
Located in Southfield, MI
Amazing recent estate find is this set of 24 volumes of "Country Life in America" magazine
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Early 20th Century American American Craftsman Antique Life Magazines

Possibly by Arthur B. Frost, Illustration of Hunter with Dogs
By Arthur Burdett Frost
Located in Hallowell, ME
publications of the time, including Harper's Weekly, Scribner's, and Life magazines. Frost's illustrations
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1910s American Realist Antique Life Magazines

Materials

Oil

A Covered Wagon Confrontation
By Jerome Rozen
Located in Minneapolis, MN
attempting to flee unspoken horrors through the desolate prairie. The Popular Magazine was a very
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1920s American Realist Antique Life Magazines

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Framed Life Magazine Cover, November 1916
Located in Bridgehampton, NY
Framed Life Magazine Cover- November 2, 1916 Vol 68- No 1775 "Price 10 Cents" Thanksgiving Table
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Early 20th Century Antique Life Magazines

Materials

Paper

19th Century Staffordshire Portrait Figure of Shakespeare
By Staffordshire
Located in Atlanta, GA
identical Staffordshire figure of Shakespeare is illustrated on Shaw's mantelpiece in Life Magazine (July
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1860s English High Victorian Antique Life Magazines

Materials

Pottery

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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.