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Joseph Christian Leyendecker
"Easter", 1905
Cover for The Saturday Evening Post, April 22, 1905
This is one of Leyendecker's first Easter covers for the Saturday Evening Post. He was to complete dozens more, often applying his most imaginative ideas to that season. Here, he was surrounded the figure with a tracery of wispy black lines, which serve to soften the edges and simultaneously give them more graphic emphasis. Much of this power was lost in the magazine reproduction, which employed only two colors of ink. |