Batter Up!

Opening Day by Walter Baumhofer. c1950.


Baseball Magazine, August 1917. Art by Benton Clark.


Baseball Magazine, n.d. Art by Joseph Kernan.

The Victim

Story illustration by Walter Baumhofer, no date.

Oops...Happy St. Patrick's Day!

I forgot it was St. Patrick's Day when I put together this morning's post. So here is a painting by Walter Baumhofer called "Grace O'Malley, Ireland's Pirate Queen." It was an illustration for Argosy magazine.

The American Civil War

Some illustrations with an American Civil War theme...





General William Tecumseh Sherman, by N.C. Wyeth, 1922.




Ulysses S. Grant, by N.C. Wyeth, 1922.




Illustrated envelope, by John Severin, 1942.




Illustration for "The Spy Wore Crinoline," American Weekly, April 24, 1955. Art by Walter Baumhofer




Abraham Lincoln by Jack Davis. From the book Meet Abraham Lincoln by Barbara Cary, 1965.

See the rest of Davis' exquisite illustrations for this book at Bostworld.