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Title based on the contents of the series. File and item titles are chiefly based on the displayed text on the magazine covers and consist of the artists’ names, monograms or pseudonyms as they appear there. Titles for artist files of unsigned covers are taken from the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog and from online publishers’ records for creators of these items. Titles of files cumulating creators of single illustrations (not in mats) and illustrations by unidentified artists are based on their contents.
Conservation: In 1985, 57 of the magazine covers in this series were matted for exhibition.
Items this series were exhibited in 1985–1987 at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto and elsewhere in the province in the exhibitions Fashion Covers: 1910–1925 (1985–1986) and Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar Fashion Covers: 1910–1925 (1986–1987).
Emily Louise (Orr) Elliott (1867–1952) was a Canadian commercial artist and painter of landscapes and floral still lifes. Born in Montreal, she studied in the 1880s at the Ontario School of Art in Toronto (now the Ontario College of Art and Design University), the Art Students’ League in New York City and the New York School of Art. Emily Louise Orr married physician John Ephraim Elliott (1858–1940) in Toronto in 1893; they had one son, Leighton Henry Elliott (1894–1947).
Emily Elliott worked in fashion illustration in Toronto probably between 1900 and 1930. As a painter, she also exhibited with the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (1898–1910) and with the Ontario Society of Artists (1899–1925), and was appointed in 1895 to the Canadian National Exhibition art committee, on which she served for 33 years. She was associated with the Art Museum of Toronto (now the Art Gallery of Ontario) in its earliest years and in 1918 and 1919 she participated in organizing exhibitions of pictures for children at the Museum. As an illustrator of women’s clothing designs, she created newspaper advertisements for the Toronto star, drawings for the Robert Simpson department store catalogue and fashion posters.
Before and during her career, she assembled a collection of the work of other illustrators published in books and magazines, chiefly from the 1880s to 1920s, a collection she gave to the Art Gallery of Toronto (now the Art Gallery of Ontario) in 1925.
Emily Elliott was a member of the Toronto Women’s Press Club (from 1912) and the Heliconian Club.
She died in Toronto in 1952. Her paintings and drawings are in the collections of the City of Toronto Market Gallery, the Toronto Public Library and the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa, Ont.
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Edward P. Taylor Library and Archives, Art Gallery of Ontario
Series comprises 477 magazine covers, predominantly from early 20th-century issues of fashion magazines such as Vogue, Vanity fair, Harper’s bazar (after Nov. 1929, Harper’s bazaar) and The delineator. Series also includes a small number of covers from general-interest periodicals such as Collier’s and The Saturday evening post, art magazines such as Shadowland, and other magazines, issued chiefly in the United States and Canada. The covers feature the art of over 80 named illustrators, chiefly American artists. Often fanciful, the images provide colourful illustration of Art Nouveau and Art Deco design in the period, primarily in women’s clothing, and include the work of prominent magazine illustrators Helen Dryden, Erté, Anne Harriet Fish, C. Coles Phillips and George Wolfe Plank. The techniques used to create the cover designs were predominantly drawing and painting, although two 1913 covers for the magazine Dress and Vanity fair are illustrated with uncredited photographs. Advertisements for automobiles, cosmetics, clothing and household products appear on verso of the covers. Some files include duplicate items or the same cover image from different editions of a magazine.
Files in this series containing two or more magazine covers and files containing matted covers are sorted alphabetically by artists’ surnames or pseudonyms. Artists represented by one magazine cover (i.e., a single sheet not mounted in a mat) are grouped in one file at the end of the series, as are covers by unidentified artists. Locations for matted covers in the files that follow are indicated by box numbers. (Covers not mounted in mats are shown in box-folders.)
No further accruals are expected.
Complete lists of magazine covers are provided separately, in artist and magazine issue indexes, with a list of matted covers.
The catalogue of the Art Gallery of Ontario Library and Archives provides entries (access points) for artists in this series, either as subjects of published works or sole or primary illustrators: Georges Barbier, Earl Stetson Crawford, Stuart Davis, Erté, Anne Harriet Fish, William James Glackens, Paul Iribe, Georges Lepape, Gustave Adolf Mossa, Maxfield Parrish, Norman Rockwell and Albert Edward Sterner. Magazine covers will also be found in series 2 (Magazine illustrations) and series 4 (llustrations from publications for children)
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Various copyright holders. It is the researcher’s responsibility to obtain permission to publish any part of the collection. Permission of the Art Gallery of Ontario is required for publication.
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File contains 4 magazine covers by Georges Barbier (1882-1932) that include 2 covers not mounted in mats from Harper's bazar, Apr. 1914 and June 1914, and 2 matted covers from Harper's bazar, Nov. 1914 and Feb. 1916.
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File contains 2 magazine covers signed with his monogram by Eduardo Garc
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File contains 3 magazine covers by Guillermo Bol
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File contains 5 magazine covers (including duplicates) by Pierre Brissaud (1885-1964) that include 3 covers not mounted in mats from Vogue, Jan. 1 1923 (also signed by George Lepape), Feb. 15 1923 and Apr. 15 1924, and 2 matted covers from Vogue, Jan. 1 1923 and Mar. 15 1924.
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File contains 3 magazine covers by Umberto Brunelleschi (1879-1949) that include 2 covers not mounted in mats from Femina, 15 Mar. 1913 and Harper's bazar, Dec. 1916, and 1 matted cover from Harper's bazar, Aug. 1914.
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File contains 2 magazine covers by Charles Livingston Bull (1874-1932) from The country gentleman, Dec. 3 1921 and The new country life, June 1918. Illustrations by this artist will also be found in series 4 (Illustrations from publications for children).
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File contains 2 magazine covers by Margaret Benedict Bull (ca. 1887-1980) from Vogue, Jan. 15 1915 and July 15 1915.
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File contains a magazine cover by Alice Caddy (possibly Alice Caddy Burman, 1896-1977) from Vogue, Aug. 15 1911.
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File contains 3 magazine covers by Irma Campbell (b. 1891) from Vogue, Oct. 1 1915, Jan. 1 1916 and Nov. 1 1916.
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File contains 2 magazine covers by Zoe C. Coman (1872-1967) from Harper's bazar, May 1916 and Aug. 1916.
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File contains 2 magazine covers by Thelma Cudlipp Grosvenor (Thelma Cudlipp Whitman) (1892-1983) from Vanity fair, Oct. 1915 and May 1916. Illustrations by this artist will also be found in series 4 (Illustrations from publications for children).
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File contains 71 magazine covers (including duplicates) by Helen Dryden (1887-1981) that include 61 covers not mounted in mats from Dress & Vanity fair, Nov. 1913, Vanity fair, May 1919 and Vogue, 1911-1922 (60 covers), sorted chronologically; arrangement, by box-folder: 4-10) 1911-1913; 4-11) 1914-1916; 4-12) 1917-1922.
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File contains 2 magazine covers by Edward Bartholomew Edwards (1873-1948) from The Century iIlustrated monthly magazine, June 1899 and The upholsterer and interior decorator, Aug. 15 1917.
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File contains 50 magazine covers by Ert
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File contains 2 unsigned duplicates of a magazine cover by Raymond Crawford Ewer (1888-1915) from Vanity fair, Apr. 1914.
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File contains 3 magazine covers by Dorothy Ferriss (1887-1975) from Vanity fair, Oct. 1916, Feb. 1917 and July 1917.
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File contains 4 magazine covers, some signed with his monogram, by Arthur H. Finley (20th cent.), that include 3 covers not mounted in mats from Vogue, Mar. 1 1912, Aug. 15 1912 and Aug. 15 1913 and 1 matted cover from Vogue July 1 1912.
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File contains 28 magazine covers (including duplicates) by Anne Harriet Fish (Anne Harriet Sefton) (1890-1964), chiefly unsigned, that include 27 covers not mounted in mats from Vanity fair, 1914-1924, sorted chronologically; arrangement, by box-folder: 5-4) 1914-1917; 5-5) 1918-1924.
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File contains 3 magazine covers by Jessie Gillespie (1888-1972) from Vogue, May 15 1911, Nov. 1 1911 and Dec. 1 1911.
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File contains 3 magazine covers by John Held Jr (1889-1958) that include 2 covers not mounted in mats from Vanity fair, Oct. 1919 and June 1920 and 1 matted cover from Vanity fair, Nov. 1919.
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File contains 3 magazine covers by A.M. Hopfm
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File contains 2 magazine covers by Robert Kalloch (1893-1947) from Vogue, Nov. 15 1916 and Oct. 1 1920.
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File contains 2 magazine covers by Wilson Karcher (b. 1882) from The designer, Dec. 1911 and Vogue, June 1 1912.
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File contains 22 magazine covers (including duplicates) by Georges Lepape (1887-1971) that include 19 covers not mounted in mats from Harper's bazar, Feb. 1915 and Apr. 1915, Vanity fair, Dec 1919 and Vogue, 1916-1924 (16 covers), and 3 matted covers from Vogue, Oct. 15 1918, Aug. 15 1921 and Jan. 1 1925. The cover of Vogue, Jan. 1 1923 is also signed "P. Brissaud." On verso of the cover of Vogue, Aug. 1 1917 is an advertisement reproducing the cover of Vanity fair, Aug. 1917 by Warren Davis.
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File contains 17 magazine covers (including duplicates) by Frank Xavier Leyendecker (1878-1924) that include 13 covers not mounted in mats from Vanity fair, 1914-1917 (5 covers) and Vogue, 1912-1915 (8 covers) and 4 matted covers from Vanity fair, Dec. 1915, and Vogue, Apr. 1 1911, May 1 1912 and Sept. 1 1913.
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File contains 6 magazine covers signed with her monogram by Alice de Warenne Little (20th cent.) from Vogue, 1917-1918.
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File contains 4 magazine covers by Robert McQuinn (b. 1884) from Everybody's magazine, Dec. 1911, Harper's bazar, June 1915 and Vogue, Feb. 15 1912 and Dec. 1 1915. Illustrations by this artist will also be found in series 4 (Illustrations from publications for children).
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File contains 5 magazine covers by Harriet A. Meserole (1893-1989) from Vogue, 1919-1924.
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File contains 3 magazine covers by Gustav Michelson (Eric Gustavus Michelson) (1884-1964) that include 2 covers not mounted in mats from Harper's bazar, Feb. 1917 and Motor, Jan. 1915, and 1 matted cover from Harper's bazar, Apr. 1916.
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File contains 6 magazine covers by Guernsey Moore (Thomas Guernsey Moore) (1874-1925) from The delineator, 1906 (5 covers) and The Saturday evening post, Aug. 21 1915.
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File contains 4 magazine covers by L.A. Morris (20th cent.) from Harper's bazar, Mar. 1916, Vanity fair, Apr. 1916 and Sept. 1916 and Vogue, Aug. 15 1916.
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File contains 7 magazine covers by Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966), some unsigned but credited, from Collier's, Apr. 2 1910 and Sept. 3 1910 and The ladies' home journal, 1901-1921 (5 covers). Illustrations by this artist will also be found in series 4 (Illustrations from publications for children).
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File contains 4 magazine covers, some signed with his monogram, by Edward Penfield (1866-1925) from Collier's, Sept. 11 1909 and Sept. 4 1915, The ladies' home journal, Aug. 1908 and The literary digest, Oct. 30 1909.
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File contains 35 magazine covers (including duplicates) by C. Coles Phillips (Clarence Coles Phillips) (1880-1927) from Good housekeeping, 1913-1917 (26 covers), Harper's bazar, July 1914, The ladies' home journal, 1911-1912 (5 covers), The Saturday evening post, Jan. 22 1921 and The Toronto Star weekly, June 8 1912, sorted chronologically; arrangement, by box-folder: 7-6) 1912-1915; 7-7) 1916-1921. Illustrations by this artist will also be found in series 4 (Illustrations from publications for children).
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File contains 44 magazine covers (including duplicates), chiefly signed with his monogram, by George Wolfe Plank (1883-1965) that include 34 covers not mounted in mats from Collier's, Apr. 29 1911, Dress and Vanity fair, Oct. 1913, Vanity fair, 1914-1918 (4 covers) and Vogue, 1911-1925 (27 covers), sorted chronologically; arrangement, by box-folder: 7-8) 1911-1914; 7-9) 1915-1925.
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File contains 10 magazine covers (including duplicates) by Ethel M'Clennan Plummer (Ethel M'Clennan Jacobsen) (1888-1936) from Vanity fair, 1914-1918.
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File contains 3 magazine covers (1 signed; includes duplicates) by "Rabajoi" (possibly Jean Joubert, 1884-1934) from Vanity fair, Sept. 1914 and Oct. 1914.
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File contains 7 magazine covers (including duplicates) by Emily Shaw Reese (b. 1886) and Walter Oswald Reese (1889-1943) from Scribner's magazine, May 1910 and Sept. 1910, Vanity fair, July 1914 and Mar. 1915 and Vogue, May 15 1915.
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File contains 2 magazine covers by Nicolai Remisoff (1877-1975), 1 not mounted in a mat from Vanity fair, June 1922 and 1 matted cover from Vanity fair, Mar. 1923.
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File contains 4 magazine covers by Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) from The Saturday evening post, 1920-1925.
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File contains 7 magazine covers by Rita Senger (b. 1893) that include 5 covers not mounted in mats from Vanity fair, Sept. 1915, July 1916 and Aug. 1919 and Vogue, June 15 1916 and Sept. 1 1917, and 2 matted covers from Vogue, June 15 1915 and July 15 1917.
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File contains 5 magazine covers by E.M.A. Steinmetz (Eva M.A. Steinmetz Ralston) (b. 1892) that include 5 covers not mounted in mats from Vogue, 1914-1916 and 1 matted cover from Vogue, May 1 1915.
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File contains a magazine cover by Henry R. Sutter (1892-1973) from Vogue, Aug. 15 1922.
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File contains 9 magazine covers by Olive Pell (Mrs Newell Tilton; Olive Tilton Bigelow) (1886-1980) that include 7 covers not mounted in mats from Harper's weekly, Dec. 20 1913 and Vogue, 1911-1914 (6 covers) and 2 matted covers from Vogue, Jan. 15 1913 and April 15 1913 .
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File contains 7 magazine covers by Sarah S. Stilwell Weber (1878-1939) that include 3 covers not mounted in mats from Harper's bazar, Jan. 1914 and May 1915 and Vogue, Apr. 1 1913, and 4 matted covers from Harper's bazar, (box 27) Nov. 1913, and Feb. 1914; (box 28) Sept. 1914, and Vogue, Oct. 15 1912.
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File contains a magazine cover by Edward Arthur Wilson (1886-1970) from Harper's bazar, Apr. 1917.
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File contains a magazine cover by Richard Porter Woodruff (1894-1959) from Vogue, May 1 1918.
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File contains one magazine cover by each of 39 artists, listed as their signatures appear on the covers, sorted alphabetically by surname or pseudonym; arrangement, by box-folder: 8-1) Avery-Hassall; 8-2) Iribe-Mossa; 8-3) Pape-Thurlow. Illustrations by William James Glackens and Sydney Joseph will also be found in series 3 (Magazine illustrations), and illustrations by John Hassall in series 4 (Illustrations from publications for children). Claire Avery (1879-1929), Vogue, Jan. 1 1917; R.A. Bell (Robert Anning Bell) (1863-1933), The ladies’ home journal, Nov. 1896; George de Forest Brush (1855-1941), The ladies’ home journal, Sept. 1911; Ruth Sypherd Clements (b. 1883), Vogue, May 15 1913; Gordon Conway (1894-1956), Vanity fair, Jan. 1918; E. Stetson Crawford (Earl Stetson Crawford) (1877-1966), Country life in America, Dec. 15 1910; Stuart Davis (1892-1964), The masses, May 1914; E. Deane (20th cent.), Harper’s bazar, July 1915; Jean-Gabriel Domergue (1889-1962), Vogue, Apr. 1 1921; Dorothy Edinger (1896-1970), Vogue, Apr. 15 1918 (unsigned); W. Glackens (William James Glackens) (1870-1938), Collier’s, Apr. 16 1910; Will Hammell (1888-1963), Vogue, Aug. 1 1913 (unsigned); Hartman (Emil Alvin Hartman) (b. 1894), Fashion-art, Aug. 1917; John Hassall (1868-1948), The gentlewoman, Xmas [Dec.] 1913; Paul Iribe (1883-1935), Femina, Feb. 15 1912; Frank H. Johnston (Franz Johnston) (1888-1949), The Canadian courier, Oct. 28 1911 (complete issue); Sydney Joseph (1876-1950), Vanity fair, Nov. 1915; Ilonka Karasz (1896-1981), The masses, Dec. 1915; Kay (Gertrude Alice Kay) (1884-1939), The ladies' home journal, May 1924; Kliz (pseudonym of G.H.H. Clisbee) (1895-1936), Vanity fair, July 1922; Locher (Robert Evans Locher) (1888-1956), Vogue, Mar. 15 1916; Reinaldo Luza (Reynaldo Luza) (1893-1978), Vogue, Feb. 15 1921; C.A. MacLellan (Charles Archibald MacLellan) (1885-1961), Canadian home journal, Oct. 1912; R.S. McMullen (Ralph Spencer McMullen) (b. 1886), The Canadian courier, May 24 1919; Montagnac (20th cent.), Vanity fair, Feb. 1922; Gustave Adolphe Mossa (1883-1971), Harper's bazar, Mar. 1915; Eric Pape (1870-1938), The delineator, Feb. 1917; Peirson (David Peirson) (20th cent.), Vogue, Sept. 15 1911; HRP (Hal Ross Perrigard) (1891-1960), The Canadian Illustrated monthly, June 1920; Piorkowska (Olga May Piorkowski; Olga Thomas; Olga Wagstaff; Olga Newhall) (b. 1894), Harper's bazar, Sept. 1915; Joseph B. Platt (Joseph Brereton Platt) (1895-1968), Vogue, Aug. 1 1920; J.A. Radford (John A. Radford) (1860-1940), British Columbia magazine, July 1911; Louis J. Rhead (Louis John Rhead) (1857-1926), Harper's bazar, Thanksgiving [Nov.] 1894; David Robinson (20th cent.), Vogue, July 15 1911; Rundquist (Ethel Caroline Rundquist; Ethel Caroline Cobham) (1892-1977), Vanity fair, Jan. 1916; Albert Sterner (Albert Edward Sterner) (1863-1946), The delineator, Aug. 1909; William Ladd Taylor (1854-1926), The ladies' home journal, Oct. 1895 (unsigned); Thomas Thomas (20th cent.), Vogue, Feb. 1 1918 (unsigned); H.T. (Helen Thurlow) (b. 1889), Vogue, Sept. 15 1916.
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File contains 20 magazine covers by unidentified artists. The cover of Chic Parisien from the Atelier Bachwitz may have been used as a wrapper rather than being intended as an item in the collection. Covers are sorted alphabetically by magazine title; arrangement, by box-folder: 8-4) British Columbia magazine-Vanity fair; 8-5) Vogue.British Columbia magazine, June 1911;Chic Parisien, "Le Grand Tailleur," ca. 1911 (Atelier Bachwitz);Dress & Vanity fair, Sept. 1913, Dec. 1913 (signed "WDT"); The fashionist, Nov. 1922 (signed "ABP"); Harper's bazar, July 1916, Apr. 1923; Motoring, Mar. 1911; Vanity fair, Jan. 1914 (signed "WDT"), Dec. 1918, Sept. 1922, Oct. 1922;Vogue, 18 Apr. 1907, Feb. 1 1912, Apr. 1 1912 (signed "AL"), Sept. 15 1912 (unidentified monogram), Feb. 15 1913, Sept. 15 1914, Feb. 15 1915, Sept. 1 1915, Feb. 1 1916.
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