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George Illian (1894-1932) was a prolific American illustrator, best known for food posters that he illustrated while serving in the Food Administration during World War I.

• World War I Poster Illustrations
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  L'Italia ha bisogno di carne 1917, Description
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  Mouth of the Seine at Honfleur, 1865, Norton Simon Foundation, Pasadena, CA; indicates the influence of Dutch maritime painting.
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  Women in the Garden, 1866–1867, Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
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  Woman in a Garden, 1867, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; a study in the effect of sunlight and shadow on colour

• Magazine Illustrations
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  Jardin à Sainte-Adresse, 1867, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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  The Luncheon, 1868, Städel, which features Camille Doncieux and Jean Monet, was rejected by the Paris Salon of 1870 but included in the first Impressionists' exhibition in 1874.
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  La Grenouillére 1869, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; a small plein-air painting created with broad strokes of intense colour.
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  The Magpie, 1868–1869. Musée d'Orsay, Paris; one of Monet's early attempts at capturing the effect of snow on the landscape. See also Snow at Argenteuil.
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  Le port de Trouville (Breakwater at Trouville, Low Tide), 1870, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest.
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  La plage de Trouville, 1870, National Gallery, London. The left figure may be Camille, on the right possibly the wife of Eugène Boudin, whose beach scenes influenced Monet.
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  Jean Monet on his hobby horse, 1872, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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  Springtime 1872, Walters Art Museum

External links

• George Illian, illustrator, 1894-1932. Here seated before his first World War I poster "Keep it Coming".
• George Illian, Library of Congress, WWI posters

Category:Illustrators