Photo Credit: Saturday Evening Post
Frederic Rodrigo Gruger is "one of the most highly regarded and prolific illustrators whose technique consisted of "drawing with a pencil on cheap cardboard." He worked for the Saturday Evening Post, Scribner, Cosmopolitian, and several other publications.
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