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Leslie Thrasher (1889-1936) is an wonderful illustrator who is best knowm for his magazine covers in an era before television and the intenet in which magazins were very important in the public fora. Trasher did some 360 magazine covers, more than any other single illustrator. Most were for Liberty Magzine, but he also did several for the Saturday Evening Post. Both were very important punlications in the inter-War Era. Trasher was born in Piedmont, West Virginia. He studies Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts while still a teenager. He then went to France on a scholarship to the Ecole de Grande Chaumiere. He sold his first civer (1912). His career was prefectly timed. Lithography was perfected at the turn of the 20th century and leading to the Golden Age of illustrators and magazines. World War I interrupted his studies and he served in the War. He was seriously injured in a poison gas which affected his health for the rest of his life, but fortunately not his sunny disposition. He returned home to America, married, and moved to Long Island to pursue his career. He studied eurhrt under ythe famed illustrator Howard Pyle. Two very important themes for his work according to Saturday Evening Post were boys and horses. We would disagree, netter said we would say were children and horses. In fact, he did some delightul images of girls of girls getting the upper hand ovr the boys--an early touch of feminism by male illustrator. His covers were similar to J.C. Leyendecker who loved to bring out comic elements in the lives of young and old. He is also likned to Norman Rockwell.
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