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[Magazine covers for Liberty Magazine. December] – Vintage Print

[Magazine covers for Liberty Magazine. December], [1926-1927] — historic drawing
[Magazine covers for Liberty Magazine. December], [1926-1927]. Historic drawing from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with [Magazine covers for Liberty Magazine. December], a historic drawing rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Magazine covers for Liberty Magazine. December]

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Among the many illustrated pages of the Americana board, this one is a working drawing rather than a finished print: a color pencil and graphite sketch on tracing paper, made for a December cover of Liberty magazine in the mid-1920s. Liberty was a large-circulation weekly, and its covers were commissioned from illustrators who worked up preliminary designs like this one before the final painting went to press. Cover drafts of this kind show how a magazine's art was shaped by editors and layout decisions, and the tracing paper hints at the stages between sketch and printed page. The drawing comes from the Donald D. Walker collection in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, which holds many commercial art studies from the 1920s.

Created / published[1926-1927]
Medium1 drawing : color pencil and graphite on tracing paper.
GenreGraphic design drawings 1920-1930.
NotesTitle devised by Library staff. Forms part of: Visual materials from Donald D. Walker collection.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,451 × 1,168 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-216364

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