“In 1901, for example, Bok offered reprints of Ladies Home Journal illustrations (without text) for sale to the public. The notice stated that the reproductions (by W. I. Taylor), if framed, were ‘works of art fit to hang beside any painting’. [...]
Artists and editors were conscious of vocational differences between illustrators and career painters. Nevertheless, the practices of Curtis, Bok, and Lorimer contributed to a blurring of borders between art and illustration on the part of the general public, who framed the pictures of and for whom such covers signified ‘art’. ”
John Sloan, "The Football Puzzle" (outubro de 1901)