Stanley Klimley
20th Century American Artist and Illustrator
By April W. Klimley

Stanley Peter Klimley was a prominent magazine illustrator in the 1940s and 1950s working in New York City and well known for his romantic and poignant family illustrations in national magazines. His work appeared regularly in magazines such as McCall's, Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, Ladies Home Journal, Woman's Home Companion, Colliers Readers Digest. He was particularly skilled at creating romantic scenes which had suggestive overtones, yet fit into the straight-laced world of 1950s publishing. Stan was also one of the first illustrators—if not the first— to portray an African-American woman in a national women's magazine.

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