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Category: Illustration

  • American Presidents (Patrick Moberg)

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    In a somewhat different take on a series of portraits of the former and present presidents of the U.S than my previous post on Presidential Portraits, illustrator Patrick Moberg has a piece that I believe is titled November 4, 2008. It gives a nicely striking comparison of certain physical characteristics of the American presidents to…

  • Presidential Portraits (Rick Tuma)

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    With lots of attention being paid to the inauguration of the new American President today, here’s a set of portrait drawings of the 43 former U.S. presidents by Rick Tuma, a staff artist for the Chicago Tribune. The series is posted as a special feature called Presidential Portraits on the Tribune’s web site. Tuma painted…

  • Frank E. Schoonover

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    Frank Earle Schoonover as one of the notable students of the great American illustrator Howard Pyle. Though not the equal of Pyle’s most accomplished student, N. C. Wyeth (who was?), Schoonover was nonetheless one of the most prominent and successful American illustrators from the “Golden Age” of American illustration; and left a legacy of more…

  • Happy Leyendecker Baby New Year 2009!

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    Another post of New Year’s babies from the illustrator who originated the concept of representing the new year as a baby, J.C. Leyendecker; and some of his numerous Saturday Evening Post covers which captured the essence of the year into the theme surrounding the baby. There is (finally!) a new book of Leyendecker’s work, J.C.…

  • The 2009 Eustace Tilley Contest

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    As I promised in my post about The Many Faces of Eustace Tilley last January, I’m letting you know about the 2009 Eustace Tilley Contest in time to participate if you’re inclined. Eustace Tilley is the name given to the foppish character drawn by art director Rea Irvin for the first cover of The New…

  • Old Kris by N.C. Wyeth

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    This year’s post about Santa Claus (or suitable Santa Equivalent) is Old Kris by the great American illustrator N.C. Wyeth (more on N.C. Wyeth in a future post). I had the pleasure of seeing this painting in person recently, as it is in the permanent collection of the Brandywine River Museum and currently on display…