THE BOOK OF FLOWERS

Nearly 1,000 years ago, Lambert of St. Omer summarized all of human knowledge in a book called the Liber Floridus (Book of Flowers). Lamber...

ONE LOVELY DRAWING, part 19

The legendary Will Elder passed away last week at age 86. He had a long, glorious career as a founding artist for MAD Magazine, TRUMP , Hum...

THE BREATH OF ROBOTS

Henry Reuterdahl (1871-1925) painted this lovely illustration for one of the earliest science fiction stories: Just months after the Wright ...

TIME AND CHANCE HAPPENETH TO THEM ALL, (part 2)

. The artist's dilemma: you can't accomplish anything without compromises, but compromises distort what you hoped to accomplish. One...

REPIN

One reason to take a second look at the great Russian illustrator Illya Repin is that art critic Clement Greenberg didn't think Repin wa...