February 1, 2009-May 3, 2009

The exhibition includes 60 original works that were used to illustrate romantic fiction from the 1890s through the mid twentieth century. The drawings, watercolors and oil paintings were created by well-known artists as James Montgomery Flagg, Dean Cornwell, Henry Raleigh, Coby Whitmore, Alex Ross, F.R. Gruger and Alice Barber Stephens. Many works accompanied love stories in early issues of magazines such as Saturday Evening Post, McCall’s, Cosmopolitan, Harper’s Monthly, Redbook, Good Housekeeping, Woman’s Home Companion and Ladies Home Journal, which published original fiction in each issue.