Sidney Riesenberg, an accomplished landscape painter but best known as an illustrator, was born in Chicago in 1885. He received his formal education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he won several purchase prize awards.

By 1905, he moved to Yonkers, New York for his career and contributed illustrations to journals such as Harper's, Scribner's, Collier's and The Saturday Evening Post and produced many posters for the Marines and Liberty Loan campaigns. From 1905 to 1909, he made two trips to the West and often created western subjects such as book illustrations for, "With Whip and Spur," and "Pioneers All."

Throughout the 1930s and 40s he exhibited his easel work at the National Academy of Design, The New Yo...