William Oberhardt

William Oberhardt (1882–1958) was an American artist, portrait painter, illustrator and sculptor.

His illustration of Joseph Gurney Cannon, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, appeared on the cover of the first edition of Time magazine on 3 March 1923.

He portrayed impoverished immigrants, pushcart peddlers, child laborers and the Manhattan skyline for The East Side magazine, which Zoe Anderson Norris (1860-1914) published bimonthly starting in 1909.

[2] Among his formal portrait subjects were Presidents William H. Taft, Warren G. Harding and Herbert Hoover; the inventor Thomas Edison, the writer Ameen Rihani and the composer Sergei Rachmaninoff.

Additionally, he was well known for his advertising work and patriotic and recruiting posters in both world wars.

Oberhardt's illustration for the first issue of Time