THE END OF 2008

George Bellows 2008 was a rough year for the type of assets that are vulnerable to market fluctuations. 40% of the value of the US stock mar...

WILLIAM APATOFF

He was born and raised in the slums of Boston, the son of Russian immigrants. When he was still a boy, his father died, leaving Apatoff the ...

THE NAKEDNESS OF GOYA

The world has gossiped for 200 years about Goya's twin paintings of the Maja -- one with clothes and one without. When the secret nude p...

ONE LOVELY DRAWING, part 23

. God, I love comics. This cover from a 1940 comic book is not so much a drawing as a riot of the themes inside the heart of an adolescent b...

LORADO TAFT'S FOUNTAIN OF TIME

Artists always dream of creating works of permanence. Perhaps they hope that "timeless" art will help them live on past their deat...

COBY WHITMORE

The great Coby Whitmore reminds us that a picture can be bigger when it doesn't fill up the whole page.

FRED

. Andrew Wyeth called this painting "Marsh Hawk." Having trouble finding the marsh hawk? Why, here it is way over at the edge, sit...

BALANCING INSPIRATION AND PERSPIRATION

Illustrator Chris Van Allsburg once said that he spent only a small percentage of his working time making creative choices. The vast majorit...

TALENT WHICH IS DEATH TO HIDE

In 1655, the great English poet John Milton wrote in despair how, halfway through life, his blindness prevented him from fulfilling his god ...