Category: Illustration
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George Gardner Symons
George Gardner Symons was an Amreican painter active in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. He was born in Chicago and was one of the early artists to live and work in California in the 1890’s, after the trans-continanal railroad made the previously remote section of the U.S. more accessible (see my posts on…
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Heinrich Zille
Heinrich Zille is an artist I was unfamiliar with until I came across this article in the New York Times. Apparently, I’m not alone, in that he is not well known outside his native Germany. There, however, he is not only well known but celebrated, particularly in his adopted home of Berlin, where he came…
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Mouse Guard (David Peterson)
Mouse Guard is a comics series (graphic story) about medieval knights, life in medieval villages and communities, territorial differences, commerce, war, and the harsh conditions that marked life in Europe in the middle of the 12th Century; except that the story is about communities of mice, told almost in parallel, as though this were a…
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Rogier ven der Wyden’s Miraflores Altarpiece
It’s interesting that in the great body of art throughout history that has been inspired by Christianity, or commissioned directly by the various expressions of the Christian church, the resurrection of Christ, the event that is the basis of the important observance of Easter, doesn’t seem to be one of the more common subjects for…
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Gary Kelley
Gary Kelley is a well-known American Illustrator with a long list of impressive clients, including Time, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, and numerous agencies and design firms. He has received 27 gold or silver medals from the Society of Illustrators in New York, and was…
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75 Artists You Must Know and Where to Find Them, from DaniDraws.com
Dani Jones, the illustrator behind the long-running and very informative art blog, DaniDraws.com, has posted a list of 75 artists, including illustrators and cartoonists, that are suggested as “must know”, along with a good shot of 6 or 8 links to resources for each one. There isn’t much in the way of description, just a…