Collier’s Magazine Cover
1910. SEPTEMBER 24 1910. The artist’s name appears inside the lower border of the image. Printed below the image lower left is “VOL XLVI NO 1” and lower right “SEPTEMBER 24 1910” with a “27” in the extreme right corner. The magazine’s title “Collier’s The National Weekly” largely obscured by Parrish’s bookish clown speaks to the magazine’s foothold in early 20th-century popular culture. From 1904 to 1910, Parrish was under exclusive contract to Collier's, which published his famed Arabian Nights paintings in 1906-07. Condition: fine. Matted and framed; the frame is moderately scuffed.
Dimensions
image dimensions: w 10.75 in x h 15 in.
1330035
Shelved Dupont Bookstore
Price: $200
NOTES
Collier's was an American magazine, founded in 1888 by Peter Fenelon Collier. It was initially launched as Collier's Once a Week, then changed in 1895 to Collier's Weekly: An Illustrated Journal, later shortened in 1905 to Collier's: The National Weekly, and eventually further shortened simply to Collier's. The magazine ceased publication with the issue dated for the week ending January 4, 1957, though a brief, failed attempt was made to revive the Collier's name with a new magazine in 2012. As a result of Peter Collier's pioneering investigative journalism, Collier's established a reputation as a proponent of social reform. Leading illustrators contributed to the covers of Collier's. They included Howard Chandler Christy, James Montgomery Flagg, Charles Dana Gibson, Maxfield Parrish, Edward Penfield, Frederic Remington, Jessie Willcox Smith, and Lawson Wood. Other top illustrators contributed prolifically to their short stories. In 1903, Gibson signed a $100,000 contract, agreeing to deliver 100 pictures (at $1000 each) during the next four years.