[1]) He painted 219 Time covers from 1942 to 1966, including portraits of Dmitri Shostakovich (20 July 1942),[2] Louis Armstrong (21 February 1949) and Dave Brubeck (8 November 1954).

After 1940, he devoted himself to commercial art, including advertisements for Xerox, Shell Oil, Pan Am, Casco Power Tools, Alcoa Steamship lines, Parke-Davis, Avco Manufacturing, Scotch Tape, Wickwire Spencer Steel Company, Vultee Aircraft, World Airways, and Parker Pens.

In commercial work he explored grotesque experiments in anthropomorphism, where toiling machines displayed distinctly human attributes.

As the illustrator of Seven Simeons, which he also wrote, Artzybasheff was one of two runners-up for the Caldecott Medal in 1938, when the American Library Association inaugurated its award for children's picture books.

Mukerji won the 1928 Newbery Medal for Gay Neck; Young and Hall were among the runners-up for that annual ALA award, which recognizes the "most distinguished contribution to children's literature".