Add exquisite color to your walls with the Vintage Vogue Cover, "Illustration of a Woman Holding Flowers", Carl Oscar August Erickson. Appearing on Vogue’s May 1935 cover, this stunning illustration is the work of Carl Oscar August Erickson, an American illustrator and advertising artist employed by Vogue from 1916 until his death in 1958. Vogue, the world’s most iconic fashion magazine, began as a weekly newspaper in the United States in 1892. In 1909, the publication rights were sold to Condé Montrose Nast.