• Skip navigation and go to content
  • Go to navigation

Norman Rockwell Museum

  • Visit
    • Hours & Admission
    • Directions
    • Exhibitions
  • Learn
    • Programs
    • School Programs
    • Curriculum Lab
  • Research
    • Norman Rockwell Collection
    • Archives and Library
    • Rockwell Center for Americal Visual Studies
    • Illustration History
    • Frank Schoonover Collection Raisonné
  • Donate
    • Make a Gift
    • Become a Member
  • Shop
  • Calendar
  • Contact
    • Staff Directory
    • Norman Rockwell Museum e-newsletter sign-up
    • Careers
    • What's my Rockwell Worth?
      FAQ

Illustration History

  • History
  • Artists
  • Genres
  • Essays
  • Resources
  • Podcast
  • History
    • Time Periods
  • Artists
  • Genres
  • Essays
  • Resources
  • Podcast
Home > Artists

Artists in Story Illustration

This ever-expanding reference list provides background on a diverse spectrum of illustrators across time, cultures, and artistic styles.

  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • V
  • W
Amos Sewell

Amos Sewell

Magazine cover illustrator who enjoyed drawing homespun, rural subjects.

Whitney Sherman

Whitney Sherman

Award-winning illustrator and Founding Director of the MFA Illustration Practice program at MICA.

Everett Shinn

Everett Shinn

Best known for illustrating theater scenes and images of the streets of New York City.

John French Sloan

John French Sloan

Best known for his gritty, urban scenes, and one of the famous Eight.

Elwood H. Smith

Elwood H. Smith

A highly acclaimed humorous illustrator and animator.

Jessie Willcox Smith

Jessie Willcox Smith

Golden Age illustrator known for her depictions of children.

J. Frederick Smith

J. Frederick Smith

Pinup artist of the 1940s and 1950s who later turned to photography.

Chris Spollen

Chris Spollen

Spollen creates 3-D illustrations in sketches, relief sculpture, and digital media prints.

Ben Stahl

Ben Stahl

Painter, art teacher, and award-winning illustrator.

William Steig

William Steig

Prolific "New Yorker" cover artist who focused on man’s everyday struggles.

Saul Steinberg

Saul Steinberg

A masterful artist who relished his engagement with the visual world and post-war society.

Barron Storey

Barron Storey

An American illustrator, graphic novelist, and educator.

Sir John Tenniel

Sir John Tenniel

A political cartoonist and illustrator, famous for his illustrations for Alice in Wonderland.

Murray Tinkelman

Murray Tinkelman

An award-winning artist and illustration historian.

Allen Tupper True

Allen Tupper True

An illustrator, easel painter, and muralist of the American West.

Ezra Tucker

Ezra Tucker

Illustrator whose focus is on "the beauty and majesty of the animal world."

Harold von Schmidt

Harold von Schmidt

Popular illustrator of Western magazine stories and historical action scenes.

Edmund F. Ward

Edmund F. Ward

Ward's adept, stirring narrative illustrations were showcased in numerous periodicals.

Chris Ware

Chris Ware

One of the most innovative and talented graphic artists of his generation.

Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol

Warhol appropriated images of everyday objects and celebrities and turned them into works of fine art.

Page 7 of 8 pages ‹ First  < 5 6 7 8 > 

Genres
  • Advertising
    • Corporate
    • Political and Public Service
    • Product
    • Self-Promotion
  • Books
    • Children’s Books
    • Cover Art
    • Interior Illustration
  • Cartooning
    • Advertising
    • Caricature
    • Political and Editorial
    • Sports
    • Spot
  • Comics
    • Comic Books
    • Comic Strips
  • Decorative & Applied Illustration
    • Antiquities
    • Ceramics, Pottery, and Sculpture
    • Info Graphics
    • Maps
    • Murals
    • Portraiture
    • Stained Glass and Mosaics
    • Tapestries
    • Tattoos
    • Wallpaper
  • Fantasy
    • Adventure
    • Fairy Tales and Fables
    • Mythology
    • Role-Playing Games
  • Fashion
    • Advertising
    • Design
  • Graphic Novels
    • Fiction
    • Non-Fiction
    • Visual Memoir and Autobiography
  • Internet Illustration
    • Memes
    • Web Comics
    • Website Illustration
  • Magazine
    • Cover Art
    • Story Illustration
  • Moving Image
    • Animation
    • Concept Art
    • Storyboard
    • Video Game Design
  • Newspaper
  • Non-Commissioned Work
  • Photography
  • Poster
    • Event (Promotional)
    • Film
    • Political
    • Propaganda
    • Travel
  • Product Illustration
    • Album/CD
    • Calendars
    • DVD/VHS/Videogame
    • Greeting Cards
    • Packaging
    • Paper Dolls
    • Postage Stamps
  • Pulp Illustration
    • Pinup Art
    • Pulp Magazines
  • Science Fiction
    • Creatures
    • Outer Space
    • Paranormal
    • Technology
  • Technical
    • Anatomy
    • Archaeological
    • Architecture
    • Courtroom Drawings
    • Horticulture
    • Mechanical
    • Natural History
Global Perspectives
  • North America
  • South America
  • Europe
  • Africa
  • Asia
  • Australia

Support the Project

We need your help to keep this project alive and growing. How can you help?

Submit Work
Make A Donation
About The Project

Stay Informed

Join our mailing list to receive updates about this growing project.

Art Works. National Endowment for the Arts. arts.gov

This project is supported in part by an award
from the National Endowment for the Arts.

"The great band of illustrators have shown us to ourselves and I am proud to be among their company."
- Norman Rockwell

©Copyright 2020 Norman Rockwell Museum
9 Route 183, Stockbridge, MA 01262 | 413.298.4100
Privacy Policy | Terms and Conditions