Category: Illustration
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Swann Galleries auction of 20th Century Illustration
Swann Auction Galleries in New York is presenting an auction of “20th Century Illustration” on this Thursday, January 23, 2014 at 1:30pm. It looks to be quite wonderful, not only in the quality of the work offered, but in the breadth of styles, from painterly to pen and ink to cartoons and comics. There is…
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Skottie Young
Skottie Young is an illustrator, cartoonist and comics artist whose clients include Marvel Comics, Warner Brothers, Image Comics, Upper Deck, Mattel and others. Young has a wonderfully lively style that almost vibrates off the page with manic energy and cartoony exuberance. He is noted in particular for his work on various Marvel characters, projects with…
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Miles Hyman
Miles Hyman is an illustrator, comics artist and gallery artist. Originally from Vermont, he moved to France to study painting and drawing, and there began his career. He moved back to the U.S. for several years and then back to France, where he currently lives. His illustration clients include the New York Times, the Boston…
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Happy Leyendecker Baby New Year 2014!
As I’ve done every year since 2006, I’ll wish all Lines and Colors readers a Happy New Year with more New Years babies from the cover of the Saturday Evening Post, by the great American illustrator, J.C. Leyendecker. Lots of great art in the year to come!
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Gustaf Tenggren (update)
Like his fellow illustrator and predecessor on Bland Tomtar och Troll (Among Elves and Trolls), John Bauer, Swedish-American illustrator Gustaf Tenggren doesn’t get the recognition he deserves, even among aficionados of Golden Age illustration. Ironically, Tenggren is probably better known for his later, very different style, in which he illustrated The Poky Little Puppy, than…
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Illustrators’ Visions of Santa Claus (update)
A follow-up to my 2006 article on “Illustrator’s Visions of Santa Claus“, in which I attempted to chronicle how 19th and early 20th century illustrators shaped our contemporary vision of the Jolly One. (Images above: Thomas Nast, Reginald Birch, J.C. Leyendecker, N.C. Wyeth, Norman Rockwell and Haddon Sundblom — with detail)