Editing Collier's (section)

==Illustrators==
Leading illustrators contributed to the covers of ''Collier's''.  They included [[C. C. Beall]], [[Wladyslaw T. Benda|W.T. Benda]], [[Chesley Bonestell]],<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.nysun.com/arts/six-centuries-of-theatrical-city-scenes-at-n-yhs/86538/ |title=Scenes at N-YHS |last=Morrone |first=Francis |date=September 25, 2008 |work=New York Sun |access-date=October 27, 2010}}</ref> [[Charles R. Chickering]],<ref>[[#Lerner|Lerner, 2010]], p.10. A designer of U.S. postage stamps.</ref> [[Howard Chandler Christy]], Arthur Crouch, [[Harrison Fisher]], [[James Montgomery Flagg]], Alan Foster, [[Charles Dana Gibson]], [[Vernon Simeon Plemion Grant|Vernon Grant]], Emil Hering, Earl Oliver Hurst, [[Alonzo Myron Kimball (artist)|Alonzo Myron Kimball]], Percy Leason, [[Frank Xavier Leyendecker|Frank X. Leyendecker]], [[Joseph Christian Leyendecker|J. C. Leyendecker]], [[Paul Martin (illustrator)|Paul Martin]], [[John Alan Maxwell]], Ronald McLeod, [[John Cullen Murphy]], [[Maxfield Parrish]], [[Edward Penfield]], Robert O. Reed, [[Frederic Remington]], Anthony Saris, [[John French Sloan|John Sloan]], [[Jessie Willcox Smith]], [[Frederic Dorr Steele]], [[Arthur Szyk]], <ref>{{Cite web |title=Collier's: December 7, 1941 · UHM Library Digital Image Collections |url=https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/items/show/31956 |access-date=2025-05-06 |website=digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu}}</ref> [[Emmett Watson (illustrator)|Emmett Watson]], [[Jon Whitcomb]] and Lawson Wood. Other top illustrators contributed prolifically to their short stories.  They included [[Harold Mathews Brett]], [[Richard V. Culter]], [[Robert Fawcett]], Denver Gillen and [[Quentin Reynolds]].

In 1903, [[Charles Dana Gibson|Gibson]] signed a $100,000 contract, agreeing to deliver 100 pictures (at $1000 each) during the next four years. From 1904 to 1910, [[Maxfield Parrish|Parrish]] was under exclusive contract to ''Collier's'', which published his famed ''Arabian Nights'' paintings in 1906-07.