HARVEY DUNN (1884 - 1952)

Harvey Dunn was a tall, muscular prairie farmer with a rare artistic gift. He started out plowing buffalo trails into farmland on the South...

ART THAT OUTCLASSES ITS SUBJECT MATTER

The 1980 movie Popeye was widely panned by critics. (One of the more favorable reviews called it a "mess of a movie" and "u...

THE TRAINING OF JULES GUERIN

The illustrator Jules Guerin had an unusual combination of strengths. He blended the careful precision of an architectural engineer with the...

VALENTIN SEROV

These are portrait sketches by the great Russian painter, Valentin Serov (1865 - 1911) While many of Serov's finished paintings are quit...

THE TRAINING OF ROBERT FAWCETT

This is an unpublished student drawing by illustrator Robert Fawcett at age 19. Sketch from 1922, approximately 5" tall. In his introdu...

WHEN AN ARTIST FALLS IN A FOREST AND NO ONE IS AROUND TO HEAR IT...

In 1923, C.B. Dodson of Richmond Virginia entered this painting in a competition for young illustrators: Alas, he came in second and nobody ...

ONE LOVELY DRAWING, part 33

At some point-- I'm not sure when-- traditional drawing skills seem to have become unfashionable. Perhaps it's because artists today...