THE SKETCHBOOKS OF WILLIAM SMITH: day 2

Over his career, William A. Smith developed a remarkable collection of friends and acquaintances.  He knew artists such as Joan Miro and Ben...

THE SKETCHBOOKS OF WILLIAM A. SMITH

Each day this week I will be posting unpublished drawings from the personal sketchbooks of famed illustrator William A. Smith . I have previ...

IS IT ART? ASK A LAWYER

When the sculptor Constantin Brancusi shipped his revolutionary sculpture, Bird in Space to the United States in 1928, it triggered a fires...

MAGIC THAT BELIEVES ITSELF

Art, being bartender, is never drunk And magic that believes itself must die                          -- Peter Viereck This passionate drawi...

CUL DE SAC

America's great poet, Walt Whitman, worked most of his life writing and revising his epic poem, Leaves of Grass .  He would add or subtr...

ONE LOVELY DRAWING, part 41

This lovely drawing was a single panel in a story by Mort Drucker for MAD Magazine in 1972.  It occupied a mere 3.75 inches x 12.75 inches i...

DOUGLAS DUER (1887-1964)

You don't hear much about Douglas Duer these days but the once popular illustrator painted for books and magazines from 1912 until the G...