Workman was born in Lancaster, PA in 1960 and received a BFA from Tyler School of Art in 1982. He currently resides with his family in Lititz, PA where he maintains a studio/gallery in a renovated garage behind his home. Mark's luminous landscape paintings have been included in exhibitions at museums and galleries across the country.

See Poliza's captivating images by clicking on his name above and check out a biography of himself here.

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Photographer: Nick Measures

Illustration: “On Donner, On Blitzen, Onstar” by C.F. Payne

Illustration: “America at Work-- Cattle Raising” by Peter Hurd

Reader's Digest front and back cover, August 1943

Busse was a famous water colorist, illustrator, painter, lithographer, and wall painter.

Durenceau (1904-1985) was a painter and muralist. He was a resident of Los Angeles in the early 1930's and painted a mural of Samson and Delilah in the Leimert Theater as well as worked in the art department of Technicolor Studios. A mural commission took him to NYC in 1933. He died in Tampa, Florida in March 1985. 

Check out the back cover-- There's No Such Thing as an 'Old" Reader's Digest! This issue is almost 70 years old!

Avery (1906-1976) was a watercolor artist who graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology in 1928 and was a faculty member of the department of Applied Art for 25 years. He often painted scenes from the local area-gray, foggy views of the downtown skyline, portraits of elegant old city homes, and abstractions of natural areas from the surrounding landscape.

Dufy (1877-1953) was a French Fauvist painter. He developed a colorful, decorative style that became fashionable for designs of ceramics and textiles, as well as decorative schemes for public buildings. He is noted for scenes of open-air social events. He was also a draftsman, printmaker, book illustrator, a theatrical set-dresser, a designer of furniture, and a planner of public spaces.

Stanley Walter Galli was born in San Francisco, CA on January 18, 1912. Galli's youth was divided between California and a ranch in Nevada. At age 12 he received a two-year scholarship at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco and later studied in Los Angeles at the Art Center School. His illustrations appeared in Country Gentlemen, Sports Afield, McCalls, Reader's Digest, True, and Saturday Evening Post. He even designed 26 postage stamps for the United States Postal Office.

Illustration: "Ring in the New Year" by N. Seidler

Reader's Digest front and back cover, July 1951

Check out some of the layouts from the Reverse Diabetes book that hits stores today!

The Reader's Digest Reverse Diabetes book comes out in stores today. Check out the chapter openers!