Stanley Arthurs story illustration for Scribner's Magazine (1908): a beautifully framed antique

Story Illustration     "A Wayside Passenger"       For "The Old Boston Post Road" by the Artist        Scribner's Magazine. Vol. 44. November 1908 Issue       IMAGE INFORMATION     Image Size: H 9.00” x W 6.00”     Matted & Framed:  H 16.00” x W 12.00”     Framed Price: $185.00     Packaging and shipping approximately $22.00 . This illustration was not the first of SMA’s works to be published by a poplar magazine. However, it exhibits the characteristics that made the artist successful. In the biography that the Director of the Delaware Art Museum prepared for the catalogue that accompanied its retrospective of the artist’s work, Charles Wyrick made these observations concerning SMA’s training and style: "Arthur’s first major published work, First Thanksgiving Day Proclamation,  appeared in the December 2, 1899 issue of Harper’s Weekly. Painted and selected for publication under Pyle’s expert supervision, the work demonstrated the influence of Pyle on the young Arthurs—the froze