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Category: Illustration

  • Antipodean Fantasy on BibliOdyssey

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    The Golden Age of Illustration, roughly from the last quarter of the 19th Century to the early decades of the 20th, is most often associated with artists from the U.S. and Europe; but terrific illustrators were also working on the other side of the Earth, in Australia and New Zealand. BibliOdyssey, that ever fascinating and…

  • Peter de Sève: new website

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    Peter de Sève’s delightfully whimsical, wonderfully styled and beautifully rendered illustrations have become familiar to readers of The New Yorker, for which he has done a number of memorable covers, and other publications like Newsweek, Time, Smithsonian and Atlantic Monthly. Since I last wrote about him De Sève’s website has been revised and expanded, and…

  • Paul Antonson

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    Sacramento based illustrator Paul Antonson has for several years done illustration and interactive design for the Wall Street Journal Online. He also has editorial clients that include The Village Voice, New York Press and The Onion. He is a children’s book illustrator as well. Antonson’s website includes work from various aspects of his career, and…

  • OP-ED at 40: Four Decades of Illustration

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    40 years ago, the New York Times debuted a new page, the OP-ED or Opposite Editorial page, meant to be both physically and philosophically opposite the editorial page. In choosing the art for this page, the editors wanted to step outside the customary range of editorial cartoons and find an opposing style there as well.…

  • Divergent: The Art of Sterling Hundley

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    Sterling Hundley, who I’ve written about previously here and here, is the subject of a one man show at the University of the Arts here in Philadelphia. Divergent: The Art of Sterling Hundley opens today, September 24th, 2010, at the Richard C. von Hess Illustration Gallery, 333 South Broad St, Philadelphia, and runs until November…

  • Pyle’s Pirates

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    Avast ye swabs! Now how could I be lettin’ International Talk Like a Pirate Day pass without usin’ it proper to serve up some pirate pictures by Mister Howard Pyle, ARRRRRRguably the rootenest tootenest pirate illustrator of ’em all! There’ be a book of ’em, y’know! There be a good boatload of ’em on 100…