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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

Stanley Meltzoff was a brilliant artist, scholar and author. At the peak of his powers, he painted a masterpiece for the cover of LIFE magaz...

This is why your grandpa spoke with such reverence about the great Al Dorne. 1953 illustration from Colliers about six greedy, shiftless son...