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Illustrator Sunday: J.C. Leyendecker (Part Two)

I took your silence as ‘no one would mind’.

Scanned from the Culter & Culter J.C. Leyendecker book.

Isn’t this that guy that drew his partner into most of his images?

Yes! His partner was
Charles Beach, and he modeled for a lot of JC’s pieces.  It’s widely accepted he was the original model for the Arrow Collar Man, a fictional character advertising Arrow Collars and one of Leyendecker’s most successful campaigns. 

They were together for around 50 years, right until JC’s death in 1951.