Cooking Over Campfire In Art And Illustration

Boys’ Life Magazine September 1933 (cover art). Pretty sure the Native American guide is not saying ‘Here, have all this land’, despite appearances.

Hunting & Fishing Magazine July 1937

Charles William Hargens, Jr. (1893−1997)

Molly Brett

My life has been told to me through campfire tales — stories that spill over when the fire has burned low and silence must be filled. They’re like old coats hauled from the back of the cupboard. Dusted off, aired out, good as new. My mother, Vivienne, doled them out as reward or consolation, depending on her mood. And so I came to know myself — through the telling and retelling.
Friday Brown by Vikki Wakefield, Australian author

Tall tales are a storytelling tradition that extends far back into human history. In our imaginations, tall tales happen around the camp fire.

LE DIEU VIVANT (1974) DH Comes campfire

COUNTRY GENTLEMAN Magazine cover art 1934

Trader Trapper magazine 1927 August art by Edwin Bolenbaugh

Hunting & Fishing Magazine March 1939

From Kipling’s A Song of the English. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson

1932 The Open Road For Boys Magazine Story of Northwest Mounted Police cover art by William Eaton

Frank C. Bensing (1893-1993) c1950, ‘Three Men Hunting’

The Mystery of the Spiteful Letters by Enid Blyton full cover

This Week (The Minneapolis Journal), January 29 1939 cover art by William
Stuart Hogarth

Who Fears The Devil by Manly Wade Wellman

Evgenii Rachev (1906 – 1997) 1960 illustration for Russian Folk Tales.

Jill Barklem Brambley Hedge, The High Hills

by Tove Jansson for ‘Moominland Midwinter (1957)

Camp fire singalong, Illustration in Childcraft vol 9 by Tom Fawell. First printed by Field Enterprises 1964

George Watson Barratt, interior illustration for Harper’s Weekly, June 1911

Khasui Kawase (1883 – 1957)

A postcard from Finland, illustrated by Rolf Lidberg in the 1970s.

Jenny Eugenia Nystrom (1854-1946) ~ Swedish painter and illustrator who created numerous Christmas cards and magazine covers

J.R.R. Tolkien (1892 – 1973) 1937 The Trolls illustration for The Hobbit campfire

The Young Balloonist by Esther M Douty 1963. This guy isn’t cooking food but he’s cooking up something.

Smoking Animals, Theodor de Bry, after Johann Theodor de Bry, 1591

Winslow Homer, Seaside Sketches – A Clam-Bake, 1873

Leonid Zolotarev – The Snow Queen

PRIJDTE K NAM, MUZIKANTI (1960) Jiri Trnka camp fire

A campfire scene by Olivier Tallec

from How To Make Friends With A Ghost by Rebecca Green

The Saturday Evening Post February 23, 1952

Banks of the Tiber, 1893 by Antonia Munoz Degrain (Catalan)

Edward Gorey, for an adaptation of ‘Rumpelstiltskin’ by Edith Tarcov

Paul Zelinsky – Swamp Angel by Anne Isaacs. I think there might be more to this one than ‘camp fire’.

Cowgirl Romances #1 1950

Arkady Sher

May Gibbs postcard, c.1916 ANZAC

Campfire artwork created with artificial intelligence, based on stock photography.