Miriam Story Hurford was a prolific and major American female illustrator in the 1930s to the 1950s. Her work was for cover art for women's magazines and home magazines and religious magazines. This work depicts the wise men being guided by the star of Bethlehem to the birth of the Christ child for a Christmas magazine cover. The work is rendered in a precise style with figures rendered in linear outlines. Miriam Story Hurford went to Syracuse University and lived for a while in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Condition is fair to good. Fading and browning to the paper. Signed lower right. Framed 19.5 x 23