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Category: Illustration

  • Carl Larsson

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    Carl Larsson was a Swedish illustrator and gallery artist active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Though he also worked in oil and painted large frescos, Larsson was primarily known for his watercolors. With a deft hand and a light touch, he depicted family and home in particular. In many cases, he used…

  • Brian Ajhar

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    Brian Ajhar is a well known illustrator and character designer whose wonderfully loopy people and animals, both real and imagined, have enlivened the pages of countless periodicals, children books and animations over the past forty years. His style can look so loose and gestural as to appear casually done, but if you stop an look,…

  • Happy Leyendecker Baby New Year 2021!

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    As I’ve done every New Year’s Eve for the past 15 years, I’ll wish all Lines and Colors readers a Happy New Year with another of J.C. Leyendecker’s terrific New Year’s Baby covers for the Saturday Evening Post. Equipped with a pickaxe and shiny lunchpail, our 1921 Leyendecker baby seems ready to get to work…

  • Beleaguered Leyendecker Santa

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    Another wonderful Saturday Evening Post Santa Claus cover by the brilliant American illustrator J.C. Leyendecker, who I think played a major role in forming our modern image of the Jolly One. Here, he is portrayed as not so jolly as he fends off the unwanted attention of the house’s stalwart defender, who apparently doesn’t recognize…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Anton Pieck’s The Roof Painter

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    The Roof Painter, Anton Pieck 20th century Dutch illustrator, printmaker and gallery artist Anton Pieck was noted for his charming winter scenes. Here, he shows an artist, perhaps meant to be a representation of Pieck himself, finding a view of the town that requires him to climb to a roof peak. A boy brings him…

  • Adrian Tomine

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    Originally from California, Adrian Tomine is an illustrator and cartoonist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Tomine has taken to his adopted city so well that he has become a reader favorite contributor to the New Yorker. His New Yorker covers, as well as many of his other illustrations and drawings, have that wonderful combination…