PICTURE SECTION only of the Chicago Sunday Tribune, Nov. 24, 1935

• Illustrator William James Aylward
• "LANDING OF THE PILGRIMS"
• Vibrant color illustration - print

The front page of this photo section has a very nice color illustration titled: "LANDING OF THE PILGRIMS" by W. J. Aylward.
Complete picture section with all 8 pages, rag edition in nice condition.

Background: Published in the Chicago Sunday Tribune on November 24, 1935—just days ahead of Thanksgiving—W. J. Aylward’s full-color illustration "Landing of the Pilgrims" represents a prime artifact of Golden Age American illustration adapted for mass print media. Trained under Howard Pyle at the Brandywine School and renowned for his deep maritime expertise, Aylward brought exceptional technical authenticity to this iconic historical event, meticulously rendering the choppy coastal water, the construction of the shallow-draft longboat, and the precise rigging of the anchored Mayflower in the background. Appearing as the flagship visual feature of the newspaper's rotogravure Picture Section, the artwork served both as a holiday celebration and as a high-quality, frameable print for thousands of Depression-era households, illustrating how major metropolitan newspapers democratized fine American narrative art and leading to the composition's long afterlife as a widely distributed commercial lithograph throughout the 1930s and 1940s.