1908 Original Front Page of The Saturday Evening Post Newspaper, Drawing by Alonzo buying Kimball, Woman in Large Black Hat

1908 Original Front Page of the iconic The Saturday Evening Post. The front page buying Drawing was by listed artist Alonzo Kimball who created eight covers for The Saturday Evening Post. The drawing was called Woman in Large Black Hat. The cover is framed and under glass.

The Saturday Evening Post is an iconic American magazine that was published weekly under this title from 1897 until 1963. It is currently published six times a year. From the 1920s to the 1960s, it was one of the most widely circulated and influential magazines for the American middle class.

Alonzo Myron Kimball (1847-1923) was known for his paintings of beautiful women. He studied at the Art Students League in New York and later in Paris. In a profile by H.E. Bane in a 1905 issue of Public Opinion: Volume 39, Bane described Kimball's work: “Even in magazine illustrations he goes deep beneath the mask of features. In his work laughter is something more than a turning up of the corners of the mouth; manliness is more than a gray eye and a square chin; beauty is more than a perfect contour.”

Alonzo Kimball was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

This cover was several years before Norman Rockwell started doing covers for The Saturday Evening Post.