FAMOUS AMERICAN ILLUSTRATORS = ARPI ERMOYAN- USED ART COLL

• Title: Famous American Illustrators (Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame Awards)

• Author / Editor: Arpi Ermoyan

• Publisher: Published for the Society of Illustrators by Rotovision SA (Crans, Switzerland); distributed to the trade in the US by Watson-Guptill Publications, New York (Printed in Singapore)

• Publication Date: 1997 (Stated First Edition, Copyright © 1997 by Rotovision)

• Format: Large quarto hardcover with blind-embossed lettering, pictorial dust jacket, and decorative Society seal endpapers; 256 pages in full color.

• ISBN: 2-88046-316-5

Interesting Facts

• The Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame: Founded in 1901, the Society launched its Hall of Fame in 1958 to honor pioneers who shaped visual culture. This book presents the 87 Hall of Fame inductees elected up to 1997 in chronological order, including N. C. Wyeth, Norman Rockwell, Maxfield Parrish, J. C. Leyendecker, Howard Pyle, and Charles Dana Gibson.

• Cover Art by a Trailblazer: The cover image is by Neysa McMein (1888–1949), one of the most prominent female commercial artists of the 20th century. She created dozens of McCall’s and Saturday Evening Post covers and was central to the Algonquin Round Table.

• Arpi Ermoyan’s Legacy: Ermoyan was an esteemed art director, historian, and long-time leader within the Society of Illustrators who dedicated years to preserving original tear-sheets and artist biographies that commercial publishers often discarded.