CHEERLEADERS FOR MODERATION

You will be tempted to skip over this post because it has the word "moderation" in the title, and instead go looking for some juic...

DRAWING THE LINE

Viewer warning: to illustrate our continuing discussion on censorship, art and pornography, this post contains a few images that are more ex...

THE GAZE OF YOUNG GIRLS

In 1913, a pernicious little busybody named M. Blair Coan spied on visitors to an art exhibit in Chicago. Coan, an investigator for the Stat...

ASHLEY WOOD'S TELEPHONE LINES

These pictures by illustrator Ashley Wood are a cross between drawing and knife fighting. Wood is one of those artists whose drawings benef...

THE BLACK AND WHITE OF COLOR

I recently posted some illustrations by the great watercolor artist John Gannam , who had an astute eye for color. But before he became famo...

ARTISTS IN LOVE, part eleven

James Montgomery Flagg had an ugly view of beauty. "I have never had any slight interest in homely ladies," he said, "no matt...

JAMES MONTGOMERY FLAGG

James Montgomery Flagg (1877-1960) drew the same way that he lived: brash and arrogant. Flagg's confidence was understandable. He worked...