ELBOW ROOM

There are artists who make great big pictures of great big subjects: Albert Bierstadt's "A Storm in the Rocky Mountains" is 12...

CHAINED TO THE GOAT-GOD OF ART

They invented perfect beauty, those ancient Greeks. Of course people made beautiful things before the Greeks, but it was the Greeks who drea...

A FEW THOUGHTS ON AN EMPTY STUDIO

When the great illustrator Howard Pyle died in 1911, his heartbroken disciples gathered in his studio. Pyle had been a phenomenal creative f...

ONE LOVELY DRAWING, part 31

Watch the design skills of the legendary Alex Toth in action. Here, Toth had to squeeze a complex, vertical scene (an unscrupulous dealer in...

STEINBERG'S CLOUDS

The great Saul Steinberg never learned to paint clouds. Compare Steinberg to English landscape painter John Constable , who became famous fo...