Between 1886 and 1942, the US Department of Agriculture commissioned watercolorists to document the food from farms and orchards.
Tag: Illustration
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An Illustrator’s Whimsical Perspective on the Everyday
“[I]t’s incredible to still spend my days conjuring and creating as an adult,” says Rosanna Tasker.
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The Operatic Impulses of Maurice Sendak
The famed children’s book author and artist considered the theater his “second career.” An evening talk and live performance will explore his font of creativity.
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Capturing the Timeless Drawings of Milein Cosman
Ines Schlenker’s illustrated biography, Milein Cosman: Capturing Time, proves Cosman’s importance both as an artist and as a chronicler of her period in artistic history.
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A Grandfather Illustrates His Grandchildren’s Childhoods With a Moving Instagram Account
Chan Jae Lee (Grandpa Chan) started his simultaneously heartbreaking and heartwarming account Drawings for my Grandchildren to document the rapid growth of his grandchildren.
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Five Decades of Courtroom Artists Capturing What Cameras Can’t
The Library of Congress selected examples from its collection of 10,000 courtroom drawings to show how artists are essential to public understanding of American trials.
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Comics that Bend and Borrow from Reality
Sean Karemaker dispenses with the rigid panel grids and other conventions that most people commonly associate with comics for The Ghosts We Know from Conundrum Press.
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Seymour Chwast’s Graphic Battle Against War
A 5,000-year chronicle of human violence is the goal of illustrator Seymour Chwast’s new book project, which follows his almost six-decades of antiwar art.
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Illustrated Dolphins and Vampire Squid from the Dawn of Ocean Exploration
In the 16th century, Pierre Belon published one of the earliest scientific depictions of a dolphin: a woodcut with finely hatched skin and pointed teeth.
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An Army of Artists Draws Batman
There are few fictional characters that can be evoked through just a symbol, but Batman is one of them, with the outline of his flying namesake, or a suggestion of the crime fighter’s black mask.
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Idyllic Illustrations of Daily Postwar Life
In 1915, during World War I, the printing company Wills & Hepworth began publishing “pure and healthy literature” for children marked with a ladybird logo, giving rise to the London-based publishing company now known as Ladybird Books.
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UK Artist Parodies Trolling with Snail “Hate” Mail
Nearly half of all internet users have found themselves targeted by trolls.