Possibly at the time of the donation (1925) of her collection of illustrations to the Art Gallery of Toronto,
Emily Elliott donated illustrated books, now in the library collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario Library
and Archives.
The permanent collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario includes works by artists whose illustrations
form part of this collection: Edward Burne-Jones, J. André Castaigne, Howard Chandler Christy, Stuart
Davis, Jean-Gabriel Domergue, Gustave Doré, George Du Maurier, James Montgomery Flagg, Myles
Birket Foster, Charles Dana Gibson, William James Glackens, Ernest Haskell, Arthur Hughes, William
Holman Hunt, Franz Johnston, Martin Justice, Charles Samuel Keene, Arthur Ignatius Keller, Troy
Kinney, Frederic Leighton, Robert Walker Macbeth, John Everett Millais, Maxfield Parrish, Henry
McCarter, F. Luis Mora, William Mulready the younger, Thornton Oakley, Edward Penfield, Joseph
Pennell, Edward John Poynter, Louis John Rhead, Briton Rivière, Norman Rockwell, Dante Gabriel
Rossetti, Frederick Sandys, Albert Edward Sterner, Dorothy Stevens, Harrison William Weir and James
McNeill Whistler.
Although artists Jay Hambidge, Henry Reuterdahl, Albert Beck Wenzell and Frederick Coffay Yohn are
mentioned in administrative documentation (1976) for the collection, no illustrations by them were found
in 2014.
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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Collection consists of illustrations clipped from fashion magazines, general-interest periodicals, children’s
picture books and other illustrated books, bringing together the work of over 275 illustrators published
between the 1860s and the 1920s, chiefly in the United States, Britain and Canada.
Fashion magazine covers in series 1 featuring imaginative and extravagant costumes are full colour
lithographs, as are most of the sheets in series 4 (Illustrations from publications for children). Illustrations
in series 2 (Book and magazine illustrations) are largely achromatic images depicting events in fictional
and poetic works, and include printed black-and-white wood engravings. Many folders contain a single
sheet of illustration by one artist, while series 3 (Gustave Doré illustrations) consists of more than two
hundred published wood engravings by prolific French artist Gustave Doré. The collection of over 3000
items offers a perspective on the era of illustration by graphic artists before it was largely superseded
(except in children’s literature) by photography.
The original order of the contents of the collection is not known. Materials have been arranged by the archives.
AGO credit line: Gift of Emily Elliott, 1925
No further accruals are expected.
The materials now constituting the Emily Elliott collection are mentioned in the accession book of the Art Gallery of Toronto for 1925, although the items in the collection were not accessioned by the Gallery. At unknown dates, the fashion magazine covers in the collection were transferred to the Prints and Drawings collection, and the library of the Gallery assumed custody of the remaining material.
In 1974, part of the Emily Elliott collection (603 items) was given to the Fine Art Section of the Metropolitan Toronto Central Library (now the Toronto Reference Library). The magazine covers that remained with Prints and Drawings at the Art Gallery of Ontario were transferred to the Library and Archives of the Gallery in 2014, re-uniting what remained of the collection, although illustrations by some of the artists listed in library documentation for the collection in 1976 were not found in 2014.
Description and finding aid prepared by Gary Fitzgibbon, 2014–2015, entered into AtoM by Amy Furness, 2018.
Uploaded and adapted by Nirvana Chainani.
Fashion plates and costume illustrations from the 19th and 20th centuries collected by Emily Elliott are in the holdings of the Department of World Cultures (Textiles & Costume) of the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.
Fashion magazine covers collected by Emily Elliott are held by the Special Collections Department of the Toronto Reference Library.
Open. Access to Special Collections is by appointment only. Please contact the reference desk for more information.
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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Indexes to artists and magazine issues in series 1 (Fashion magazine covers) are available.
Source of title proper:
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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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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Physical description: Items in these files include neutral and colour offset lithographs, neutral relief halftones on printing paper and greyscale wood engravings removed from books. Some illustrations are vignettes less than a half-page with text, while others are full page illustrations or plates.
Although artists Jay Hambidge, Henry Reuterdahl, Albert Beck Wenzell and Frederick Coffay Yohn are mentioned in administrative documentation (1976) for the collection, no illustrations by them were found in 2014.
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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United States from the mid-19th century to around 1915. These include the work of 132 artists, for which predominant sources were monthly and weekly periodicals featuring fiction with captioned narrative illustrations, including The Century magazine, Collier’s, Cosmopolitan, Cornhill magazine, The delineator, Everybody’s magazine, Good words, Harper’s monthly magazine, Harper’s weekly, The leisure hour, London society, McClure’s magazine, Scribner’s magazine and Scribner’s monthly.
Several illustrations come from mid-19th-century books such as those created by Myles Birket Foster for his Beauties of English landscape (London : George Routledge and Sons, 1874), by Thomas Creswick for Poems by Alfred Tennyson (London : E. Moxon & Co., 1866) and by John Dawson Watson for The pilgrim’s progress by John Bunyan (London : Routledge, Warne and Routledge, 1861).
Other sources were general-interest magazines and fashion magazines, including The bookman, Harper’s bazar, The illustrated London news, Life and Vanity fair, that contained sections featuring the artwork of illustrators. A small number of magazine covers in colour and some pages from U.S. newspapers are included The folder of illustrations by John Tenniel includes an issue of The art journal ([April], 1901, designated “The art annual”) consisting of “The life and works of Sir John Tenniel” by Cosmo Monkhouse.
Apart from illustrations by Charles Dana Gibson and Albert Guillaume, the sheets of lithographs and wood engravings in this series are grouped by artist in one file. Artists’ names are sorted alphabetically by surname. Illustrations by unidentified artists are cumulated in the last folder in the file.
No further accruals are expected.
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: Edward Burne-Jones. Walter Crane, Thomas Creswick, Howard Chandler Christy, Charles Altamont Doyle, Richard Doyle, Harrison Fisher, Myles Birket Foster, Charles Dana Gibson, John Gilbert, William James Glackens, Ernest Haskell, Alfred Garth Jones, Charles Keene, Troy Kinney, James Mahoney, John Everett Millais, William Mulready, Thornton Oakley, Joseph Pennell, John Pettie, Howard Pyle, Ernest H. Shepard, Dorothy Stevens, George Housman Thomas, Harrison William Weir and James McNeill Whistler.
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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 clippings of illustrations by Charles Dana Gibson (1867-1944) from Cosmopolitan and other magazines that published fiction with captioned illustrations; 3 covers for McClure's magazine from 1913 (March, April and June); clippings of illustrations from New York and Pittsburgh (Pa.) newspapers; and illustrations for Collier's, Harper's bazar (including the cartoon series "Senator Lambkin's daughter Mary"), Life and Toronto Star weekly. Arrangement, by box-folder: 6-9) captioned illustrations; 6-10) magazine covers and newspaper clippings; 6-11) other magazine illustrations.Among the books donated by Emily Elliott now in the library collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario Library and Archives is The education of Mr. Pipp by Charles Dana Gibson (New York: R.H. Russell, 1899).
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File contains a copy of a graphic fictional work, Madame est servie (Paris: H. Simonis Empis, [1897]) (unpaged), by Albert Guillaume (1873-1942).
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File contains over 2000 sheets of book and magazine illustrations, chiefly from fictional works, some of which are mounted on cardboard (38 x 25 cm) or similar. Arrangement, by box: 1) Ashley-Duncan; 2) Fink-Guipon; 29) Hale-Kinney; 30) Lawless-Myrbach; 31) Nahl-Small; 32) Stevens-Unidentified artists. Illustrations by William James Aylward, Randolph Caldecott and Walter Crane will also be found in series 4 (Illustrations from publications for children). The following artists are represented: Ashley, Clifford Warren (1881-1947), Aylward, William James (1875-1956), Birch, Reginald Bathurst (1856-1943), Booth, Franklin (1874-1948), Browne, Hablot Knight (1815-1882), Bull, René (ca.1875-1942), Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898), Caldecott, Randolph (1846-1886), Cameron, Hugh (1835-1918), Castaigne, J. André (1861-1929), Chambers, Charles Edward (1883-1941), Christy, Howard Chandler (1872-1952), Cootes, Frederick Graham (1879-1960), Covey, Arthur Sinclair (1877-1960), Covey, Molly Sale (1880-1917), Craig, Frank (1874-1918), Crane, Walter (1845-1915), Creswick, Thomas (1811-1869), Cruikshank, George (b. 1842), Devambez, André Edouard (1867-1944), Dicksee, Frank (1853-1928), Doyle, Charles Altamont (1832-1893), Doyle, Richard (1824-1883), Du Maurier, George (1834-1896), Dudley, Robert Charles (1826-1900), Duncan, Walter Jack (1881-1941), Edwards, Mary Ellen (1838-1910?), Fink, Denman (1880-1956), Fisher, Harrison (1877-1934), Flagg, James Montgomery (1877-1960), Fogarty, Thomas (1873-1938), Foote, Mary Hallock 1847-1938), Foster, Myles Birket (1825-1899), Foster, William Frederick (1883-1953), Foster, William Harnden (1886-1941), Fraser, Francis Arthur (1846-1924), Furlong, Charles Wellington (1874-1967), Gilbert, John (1817-1897), Glackens, William James (1870-1938), Goble, Warwick (1863-1943), Graham, Thomas Alexander Ferguson (1840-1906), Green, Elizabeth Shippen (1871-1954), Greiffenhagen, Maurice (1862-1931), Gruger, Frederic Rodrigo (1871-1953), Guipon, Léon (1872-1910), Hale, Walter (1869-1917), Hanna, Thomas King (1872-1951), Harding (Brown), Charlotte (1873-1951), Harding, George Matthews (1882-1959), Harrison, Florence Susan (1877-1955), Haskell, Ernest (1876-1925), Hatherell, William (1855-1928), Heath, Ernest Dudley (1867-1945), Herter, Albert (1871-1950), Hitchcock, Lucius Wolcott (1868-1942), Houghton, Arthur Boyd (1836-1875), Hughes, Arthur (1832-1915), Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910), Hutchison, Robert Gemmell (1855-1936), Hutt, Henry (1875-1950), Ivanowski, Sigismond de (1875-1944), Jones, Alfred Garth (1872-1955), Joseph, Sydney (1876-1950), Justice, Martin (1869-1961), Keene, Charles Samuel (1823-1891), Keller, Arthur Ignatius (1866-1924), Kemble, Edward Windsor (1861-1933), Kimball, Alonzo Myron (1874-1923), King, Cecil (1881-1942), King, William B. (1880-1927), Kinney, Margaret West (1872-1950) and Troy Kinney (1871-1938), Lawless, Matthew James (1837-1864), Lawrence, William Hurd (1866-1938), Lawson, Francis Wilfred (1842-1935), Lawson, John (19th cent.), Leighton, Frederic (1830-1896), Linson, Corwin Knapp (1864-1934), Loeb, Louis (1866-1909), Lowell, Orson (1871-1956), Macbeth, Robert Walker (1848-1910), Macquoid, Percy (1852-1925), Mahoney, James (ca.1816-1879), Marchand, John Norval (1875-1921), Matthews, W. (19th/20th cent.), Maxwell, Donald (1877-1936), McCarter, Henry (1866-1942), McCormick, Arthur David (1860-1943), Meylan, Paul Julien (1882-1962), Michael, Arthur Carr (fl. 1903-1928), Millais, John Everett (1829-1896), Millet, Francis Davis (1846-1912), Mora, F. Luis (1874-1940), Morten, Thomas (1836-1866), Mulready, William (1786-1863), Myrbach, Felician (1853-1940), Nahl, Perham Wilhelm (1869-1939), North, John William (1842-1924), Oakley, Thornton (1881-1953), O'Neill, Rose Cecil (1874-1944), Peck, Clara Elsene (1883-1968), Peck, Henry Jarvis (1880-1964), Peixotto, Ernest Clifford (1869-1940), Pennell, Joseph (1857-1926), Pettie, John (1839-1893), Pfeifer, Herman (1879-1931), Pickersgill, Frederick Richard (1820-1900), Pinwell, George John (1842-1875), Poynter, Edward John (1836-1919), Preston, May Wilson (1875-1963), Pyle, Howard (1853-1911), Relyea, Charles M. (1863-1932), Reynolds, Frank (1876-1953), Reynolds, Warwick (1880-1926), Rivière, Briton (1849-1920), Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882), Sanderson, H. (fl. 1862-1865), Sandys, Frederick (1829-1904), Shepard, Ernest H. (1879-1976), Small, William (1843-1931), Stevens, Dorothy (1888-1966), Stone, Marcus C. (1840-1921), Tenniel, John (1820-1914), Thomas, George Housman (1824-1868), Walker, Fred (1840-1875), Watson, John Dawson (1832-1892), Weir, Harrison William (1824-1906), Whistler, James McNeill (1834-1903), Williams, John Alonzo (1869-1951), Winter, Alice Mary (Beach) (1877-1970), Wolf, Joseph (1820-1899), Unidentified artists.
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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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Series comprises approximately 240 printed sheets of black-and-white and greyscale wood engravings (prints) from drawings by French printmaker, painter and sculptor Gustave Doré (1832–1883). Perhaps the oldest sheets of illustrations in this series are in a partial, disbound copy of Doré’s Two hundred sketches humorous and grotesque, while other leaves with images are from The beautiful story by James William Buel (1849–1920), and from editions of Inferno by Dante Alighieri (1235–1321) and Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547–1616).
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Related material: The catalogue of the Art Gallery of Ontario Library and Archives provides entries (access points) for Gustave Doré, both as a subject of published works and as illustrator.
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Physical description: Slips of paper pasted on mounts quote from the texts of publications, probably for purposes of exhibition.
Some of the illustrations in this series were displayed at exhibitions for children arranged by Emily Elliott and others at the Art Museum of Toronto in the summers of 1918 and 1919.
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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Series comprises sheets of illustrations clipped chiefly from early-20th-century children’s books and magazines and from material intended for children or picturing children in periodicals such as Collier’s, Country life and The delineator. The illustrations accompany fairy tales and children’s stories, depict children at play, or portray animals. Series consists of the work of 62 identified artists, including Frank Adams, Frank Godwin, George Vernon Stokes, Jessie Willcox Smith and Blanche Fisher Wright. Illustrations are also taken from The child’s natural history (Boston : DeWolf Fiske, [190-?]) with pictures by unidentified artists, and Favourite animals (London : Dean & Son, [1905?]) with pictures by Stanley Berkeley (1855–1909) and other artists not named. Illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith include 3 magazine covers with images of children from Good housekeeping, Jan. 1918 and Jan. 1919, and The ladies’ home journal, Nov. 1912.
The number of items per illustrator extends from a single sheet in the case of 25 of the artists to the more numerous illustrations (47) by Frank Adams. Many sheets are illustrated on both sides. The earliest illustrations are probably those by Thomas Landseer from the 1880s and the latest by Frank Godwin (1925).
The artists in this series are grouped in one file. The illustrations are sorted alphabetically by artists’ surnames along with titles of 2 picture books from which illustrations were clipped. Illustrations by unidentified artists are cumulated in the last folder in the file.
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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: Cecil Charles Windsor Aldin, Charles Livingston Bull, Randolph Caldecott, Walter Crane, Edmund Dulac, Maxfield Parrish, Arthur Rackham and Hugh Thomson
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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 sheets of illustrations from children's books and magazines, most of which are mounted on cardboard (51 x 36 cm). Several mounts include the work of two or more artists. The following artists are represented in the file: Adams, Frank (1871-1944); Aldin, Cecil Charles Windsor (1870-1935); Appleton, Honor C. (1879-1951), see also Jessie Willcox Smith folder; Austen, Winifred (1876-1964), see Louis Augustus Sargent and Cuthbert Edmund Swan folders; Aylward, William James (1875-1956); Barney, Maginel Wright (Enright) (1881-1966); Brock, Henry Matthew (1875-1960); Bull, Charles Livingston (1874-1932); Caldecott, Randolph (1846-1886); The child
Arrangement, by box: 9) Adams (4 folders); 10) Aldin-Cory (11 folders); 11) Cowham-Fischer (9 folders); 12) Godwin-La N
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