American artist Winslow Homer is best known for his work in oil and watercolor, but he began his career in the newsroom making images for illustrated periodicals.
On Books: Seuss and Sensibility
If Dr. Seuss did not exist, we would have a hard time inventing him, since we would have a hard time even imagining him.
A Great Dane in Boston
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston celebrates the work of a master from the “great age of illustration” around the turn of the twentieth century: the Danish artist Kay Nielsen.
At the Library Company, the city views of William Birch
We have an idea of life in Philadelphia during the early years of independence thanks, not to an American, but to the English artist William Birch.