YOUNG GALAHAD ROYAL CORNWALL PLATE J. C. LEYENDECKER

YOUNG GALAHAD / COLLECTORS PORCELAIN / DECORATORS PLATE / PLATE II / THE ROYAL CORNWALL CLASSIC COLLECTION / ILLUSTRATED DESIGN BY J. C. LEYENDECKER / FAMOUS AMERICAN ILLUSTRATOR / DATED 1980 / # 828 OF 17500 SETS OF FOUR PLATES / THIS AUCTION IS FOR PLATE # 2 OF THAT SET ONLY .

SIZE : THIS J. C. LEYENDECKER ILLUSTRATED COLLECTORS PLATE THE YOUNG GALAHAD MEASURES BOXED AS FOLLOWS : BOXED 11 1/2 INCHES BY 11 1/2 INCHES BY 2 INCHES TALL / STYRO PACKED WITH THE ACTUAL DECORATED PORCELAIN PLATE MEASURING 9 1/4 INCHES WIDE ACROSS

CONDITION : THIS J. C. LEYENDECKER ILLUSTRATED COLLECTORS PLATE THE YOUNG GALAHAD IS IN GOOD TO EXCELLENT PREVIOUSLY OWNED / DISPLAYED / AND CURRENTLY COLLECTED CONDITION / THERE ARE NO CHIPS, NO CRACKS, NO DAMAGES AND NO REPAIRS / PLEASE NOTE THE BOX IS SOILED FROM PREVIOUSLY STORAGE .

WE OFFER PLATE # 2 FROM THE ROYAL CROMWELL CLASSIC COLLECTION OF 17500 SETS OF FOUR LIMITED EDITION COLLECTORS PORCELAIN DECORATORS PLATES FROM ILLUSTRATIONS OF J. C. LYENDECKER ON OF THEM MOST FAMOUS AMERICAN ILLUSTRATORS OF THE GOLDEN AGE OF ILLUSTRATION !!! THE SCENE IS OF THE MOST FAMOUS KNIGHT OF ALL OF THE ROUND TABLE OF KING ARTHUR / SIR GALAHAD / HERE THE YOUNG GALAHAD MOUNTED ON HIS MAGNIFICENT WHITE STEED HOLD QUEEN GUINEVERE IN THE PROTECTIVE SAFETY OF HIS KNIGHTLY ARMS / THEY ARE BEING CARRIED AWAY FROM CAMELOT IN THE THROES OF THEIR NEWLY DISCOVERED LOVE / A BEAUTIFUL NAKED CUPID PUTTI PLAYS ABOUT THEM ARRANGING A BEAUTIFUL SWAG OF MAGNIFICENT ROSE GARLAND / CUPID FRAMES THE YOUNG LOVERS WITH SWAGS OF LOVELY SCENTED ROSE SWAGS

IF YOU DO NOT KNOW OF THIS FAMOUS AMERICAN ILLUSTRATOR PLEASE ALLOW US TO PROVIDE THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION ABOUT HIS LIFE AND HIS CAREER .

JOSEPH CHRISTIAN LEYENDECKER (MARCH 23, 1874 – JULY 25, 1951) WAS A 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN ILLUSTRATOR. HE IS MOST WELL KNOWN FOR HIS MEN'S FASHION ADVERTISEMENTS, PARTICULARLY THE ARROW COLLAR MAN, AND AS NORMAN ROCKWELL'S PREDECESSOR AS THE PREMIER ILLUSTRATOR OF COVERS FOR THE SATURDAY EVENING POST.

LEYENDECKER'S BIOGRAPHERS LAURENCE AND JUDY CUTLER DESCRIBE HIS LIFESTYLE DURING THE TEENS AND TWENTIES AS THAT OF AN OPENLY GAY MAN, BUT BY THE TIME OF HIS DEATH HE HAD BECOME A SECRETIVE RECLUSE. IN AN ERA WHEN SUCH A SEXUAL ORIENTATION WAS TABOO, LEYENDECKER'S PERSONAL LIFE WAS BRUSHED ASIDE IN THE POPULAR MEDIA IN FAVOR OF FOCUSING ON HIS FAME AS AN ARTIST. LEYENDECKER MAY HAVE ATTEMPTED TO DISGUISE THE HOMOEROTIC CONTENT OF HIS DRAWINGS BY INCLUDING WOMEN ADORING THE HANDSOME MEN. A FEW IMAGES ARE MORE OVERTLY HOMOEROTIC, SUCH AS ADVERTISEMENTS FOR GILLETTE IN WHICH SCANTILY CLAD MEN TEACH EACH OTHER HOW TO USE DISPOSABLE RAZORS.

LEYENDECKER MODELED HIS ARROW COLLAR MAN ON HIS PARTNER OF 48 YEARS, CHARLES BEACH. LEYENDECKER'S RELATIONSHIP WITH BEACH BEGAN IN 1901 WHEN THE BOY WAS FIFTEEN YEARS OLD.

AFTER LIVING DEFERENTIALLY WITH FRANK AND MARY IN THE SAME HOUSEHOLD FOR TWO DECADES, BEACH BEGAN TO RECOGNIZE NEWFOUND STRENGTHS, AND GRADUALLY INSINUATED INTO MANAGING JOE'S LIFE, UNTIL HE TOTALLY CONTROLLED BOTH BUSINESS AFFAIRS AND THE FAMED ILLUSTRATOR'S SOCIAL LIFE.

WHILE BEACH OFTEN ORGANIZED THE FAMOUS GALA-LIKE SOCIAL GATHERINGS THAT LEYENDECKER WAS KNOWN FOR IN THE 1920S, HE ALSO CONTRIBUTED LARGELY TO LEYENDECKER'S SOCIAL ISOLATION IN HIS LATER YEARS. CHARLES FORBADE OUTSIDE CONTACT WITH THE ARTIST IN THE LAST MONTHS OF HIS LIFE.

DUE TO HIS FAME AS AN ILLUSTRATOR, LEYENDECKER WAS ABLE TO INDULGE IN A VERY LUXURIOUS LIFESTYLE WHICH IN MANY WAYS EMBODIED THE DECADENCE OF THE ROARING TWENTIES. HOWEVER, WHEN COMMISSIONS BEGAN TO WANE IN THE 1930S, HE WAS FORCED TO CURTAIL SPENDING CONSIDERABLY. BY THE TIME OF HIS DEATH, LEYENDECKER HAD LET ALL OF THE HOUSEHOLD STAFF AT HIS NEW ROCHELLE ESTATE GO, WITH HE AND BEACH ATTEMPTING TO MAINTAIN THE EXTENSIVE ESTATE THEMSELVES. LEYENDECKER LEFT A TIDY ESTATE EQUALLY SPLIT BETWEEN HIS SISTER AND CHARLES. HE IS BURIED ALONGSIDE PARENTS AND FRANK AT WOODLAWN CEMETERY IN BRONX, NEW YORK. CHARLES'S GRAVE SITE IS UNKNOWN.

THE 1920S WERE IN MANY WAYS THE APEX OF LEYENDECKER'S CAREER, WITH SOME OF HIS MOST RECOGNIZABLE WORK BEING COMPLETED DURING THIS TIME. MODERN ADVERTISING HAD COME INTO ITS OWN, WITH LEYENDECKER WIDELY REGARDED AS THE PRE-EMINENT COMMERCIAL ARTIST. THIS POPULARITY EXTENDED BEYOND THE COMMERCIAL, AND INTO LEYENDECKER'S PERSONAL LIFE, WHERE HE AND CHARLES BEACH HOSTED LARGE GALAS ATTENDED BY PEOPLE OF CONSEQUENCE FROM ALL SECTORS. THE PARTIES THEY HOSTED AT THEIR NEW ROCHELLE HOME/STUDIO WERE IMPORTANT SOCIAL AND CELEBRITY MAKING EVENTS.

AS THE 1920S MARKED THE APEX OF JOE LEYENDECKER'S CAREER, SO THE 1930S MARKED THE BEGINNING OF ITS DECLINE. IN 1930, CLUETT, PEABODY, & CO. RETIRED THE ARROW COLLAR MAN ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN, THUS ENDING THE TWO-AND-A-HALF DECADE LONG WORKING RELATIONSHIP WHICH LEYENDECKER HAD SHARED WITH THEM. DURING THIS TIME, THE ALWAYS SHY LEYENDECKER BECAME MORE AND MORE RECLUSIVE, RARELY SPEAKING WITH PEOPLE OUTSIDE OF HIS SISTER MARY AUGUSTA AND CHARLES (FRANK HAD PASSED AWAY IN 1924 AS A RESULT OF AN ADDICTION-RIDDLED LIFESTYLE). PERHAPS IN REACTION TO HIS ALMOST ALL-PERVASIVE WIDESPREAD POPULARITY IN THE PREVIOUS DECADE, OR AS A RESULT OF THE NEW ECONOMIC REALITY FOLLOWING THE WALL STREET CRASH OF 1929, THE NUMBER OF COMMISSIONS LEYENDECKER RECEIVED STEADILY DECLINED. IN 1936, THE EDITOR AT THE SATURDAY EVENING POST FOR ALL OF LEYENDECKER'S CAREER UP TO THAT POINT, GEORGE HORACE LORIMER, RETIRED, AND WAS REPLACED BY WESLEY WINANS STOUT (1937-42) AND THEN BEN HIBBS (1942-62), BOTH OF WHOM RARELY COMMISSIONED LEYENDECKER TO ILLUSTRATE COVERS.

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