Robert G. Harris is best known for his romantic portrayals of stories illustrations published in magazines including Ladies Home Journal, Cosmopolitan, Saturday Evening Post and McCalls.

Robert George Harris was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and received his early art training at the Kansas City Art Institute, under illustrator Monte Crews. Then, wanting to go into the magazine illustration field as his life work, he went to New York in 1930, where he studied Anatomy under George Bridgman at the Art Students League; and Illustration under Harvey Dunn at the Grand Central Art School. Under them he received all the necessary tools for becoming a successful illustrator.

From there he began illustrating weste...