When Cy Twombly's painting,   Say Goodbye, Catullus, to the Shores of Asia Minor (1994)  was exhibited in Houston, a visitor to the muse...

Once upon a time, magazines had such high budgets for illustrations that they could commission illustrators to muse about the end of the wor...

I've said some unkind things here about cross hatching-- those intersecting lines that are used to add tone to a drawing. Artists who as...

I love Frederic Gruger's drawing of a confrontation between a Russian princess and a group of leering Bolshevik invaders. Gruger was fam...

This drawing by James Montgomery Flagg is as confident and brash as Flagg himself. The drawing is large-- nearly 30 inches (76 cm) and appea...

Franklin Booth (1874-1948) learned to draw by studying wood engravings in magazines while he was growing up on a farm in Indiana.  He mistak...