WILLIAM COTTON (1880-1958)

William Cotton trained as a fine artist at the Academie Julien in Paris. He exhibited at the Luxembourg Museum and other esteemed institutio...

ART vs. LIFE

Art is a double edged sword. It enhances our experience of life, but also obstructs and diminishes it. We spend most of our time here at the...

FRANK BRANGWYN (1867-1956)

Frank Brangwyn had a special talent for depicting grand structures such as cathedrals, bridges and ships. He drew individual human beings th...

EVERY TRIANGLE HAS A THOUSAND ANGLES

Civilizations can be judged by how their illustrators portray the story of St. George and the Dragon . The basic facts of the eternal triang...

ON THE DIFFICULTY OF DRAWING WOMEN'S FACES

One could easily devote a long and joyful lifetime to cataloging the differences between men and women without ever pausing to consider the ...

HENRY PATRICK RALEIGH (1880-1944)

The illustrator Henry Raleigh started and ended life in poverty and despair. But in between, he spent decades painting high society pictures...

ART TO KILL SNAKES WITH

When Jonathan Williams was asked to define art, he responded, "If you can kill a snake with it, it ain't art." That definition...