The illustrator Rockwell Kent (1882 - 1971) loved humanity with great passion. Unfortunately, he was an utter jerk when it came to loving in...

Here are the 5 things I love most about the work of the great Ronald Searle (1920 - ). 1.) He is absolutely fearless with ink: the bite and...

[No pictures today-- I am writing from Beijing, China, far away from my art collection, my scanner and my sweetheart (hi, Nell!). But I'...

A few days ago I posted a segment on Stanley Meltzoff's paintings of ancient Greece. I always wanted to meet the artist behind those glo...

   In 1963, Life Magazine commissioned artist Stanley Meltzoff to illustrate an article about ancient Greece. The result was a set of glowin...

Art sits back, licking its chops and waiting for the next fool who believes art can be explained rationally. I've never been that kind o...

[This is not my last digression into the difference between illustration and abstract art. It is probably not even my second to last digress...

A few of you have wondered just what the heck I was yodeling about in my last posting on abstract art. Let's start by acknowledging that...

My numerous unkind remarks about modern art have led some to conclude that I am opposed to all such art. Nothing could be further from the t...

This lovely little drawing by Robert Fawcett appeared in Look Magazine in the 1960s. It was just a spot illustration, about 2 inches acros...

At the start of the 20th century, artists and designers were excited by the prospect of a new era filled with miraculous inventions such as ...

Artists are most creative when they have to explain a missed deadline or a mistake in their artwork. This honorable tradition of excuses goe...

In 1748, Thomas Gray stood alone at dusk in the crumbling remains of a small cemetery in the English countryside. He thought about the gener...