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• Armitage, Shelley. John Held, Jr., Illustrator of the Jazz Age. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1987.
• Banner, Lois W. American Beauty. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983.
• Gibson, Charles Dana. The Gibson Girl and Her America: The Best Drawings of Charles Dana Gibson. Selected by Edmund Vincent Gillon, Jr. With an introductory essay by Henry C. Pitz. New York: Dover, 1969
• Reed, Walt. The Illustrator in America, 1860-2000. New York: The Society of Illustrators, 2001.
• Robbins, Trina. Nell Brinkley and the New Woman in the Early 20th Century. Jefferson, North Carolina and London: McFarland, 2001.
• Schau, Michael. “All-American Girl:” The Art of Coles Phillips. New York: Watson-Guptill, 1975.