Original Ink and watercolor wash illustration for Puck Magazine Cover depicting Uncle Sam and Columbia (poetic name used for the United States of America) surrounded by figures of the past, reading the 1000th issue of Puck magazine with a youth (symbolizing the future).
Signed lower center (below Columbia’s feet) C.J. Taylor with penciled press annotations verso: Feb 4/96, 3:15 pm, March 28/96 11:40 am with ditto marks for March 30/ 11-.
Taylor, Charles Jay (1855-1929): Charles Jay Taylor received a law degree from Columbia University and later studied at the Art Students League, the National Academy of Design with Eastman Johnson, and at the City College of New York. He later studied in London and Paris. Taylor produced newspaper illustrations for New York's Daily Graphic and was an active member of the Young Men's Radical League for the Seventh Assembly District in New York City.

Taylor also produced illustrations for Harpers, Puck, and Punch, and became internationally famous for his books on the "Taylor Girls." He also illustrated H. C. Bunner's Short Sixes. He exhibited his drawings at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo in 1901 (prize); the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in 1915, winning a medal, the hors concours (jury of awards); and at the Sesquicentennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1926 (medal). Taylor moved to Pittsburgh in 1911 to serve as the first head of the Illustration Department in the School of Applied Design at the Carnegie Institute of Technology.

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