(continuing a series )  I love this drawing of a horseman by Rodin: When Rodin was 16, he drew tight academic drawings: Over the years he ev...

I just received my copy of the new book by John Cuneo, Good Intentions . Cuneo has a unique voice in American illustration.  When you think ...

This is a 1933 political cartoon by Vaughn Shoemaker.  It appeared in the Chicago Daily News, which went defunct many years ago: Look how sm...

 President John Kennedy was a passionate believer in the importance of the arts; he was a voracious reader and intellectually curious.   He ...

America loves a good "road story" about  traveling companions who encounter adventure and learn lessons along the way.   Jack Kero...

 In the 1980s, there were two comic strips about the White House.  One was well written, the other was well drawn.  Doonesbury was brilliant...

 I've had some unkind things to say about illustration in the New York Times in recent years.  I felt that the Times had lost its taste...