Illustrators like RUSSELL SAMBROOK fill in the gap between the age dominated by J. C. Leyendecker and the renaissance of Americana seen through Norman Rockwell's eyes. Like his contemporaries, Sambrook's approach to visual design and sense of stagey humor owe a great deal to his predecessors, while his ability to isolate the concerns and foibles of the American Everyman hint at the vision of his successors.

Sambrook's career was eclipsed by other Saturday Evening Post regulars like E. M. Jackson, Douglass Crockwell, Ellen Pyle, Andrew Loomis, and, of course, Norman Rockwell. But from the 'twenties through the 'fifties, Sambrook's workmanship was called upon for the cover of the Post, The People's Home ...