Profiles the lives and works of ten American illustrators: Howard Pyle, N. C. Wyeth, Frederic Remington, Charles Dana Gibson, Maxfield Parrish, Norman Rockwell, J. C. Leyendecker, Howard Chandler Christy, James Montgomery Flagg, and John Held, Jr.
An illustrated account of the family, friends, and local characters who served as Rockwell's models, and an explanation of his working procedures. A directory leads readers to reproductions of the paintings in which each person appeared.