Posts Tagged ‘illustrators’
Uncle Sam Wants You: The Man Behind the Poster
Illustrator James Montgomery Flagg (1877-1960) keeps popping up in places where I don’t expect him. Each time I have to look him up, because I don’t remember who he is. Each time he looks a little more interesting. Most recently I stumbled across him on HathiTrust. I had given into the temptation to search for…
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Alice Barber Stephens, Illustrator (Yes, Another One)
You may have noticed that I’ve been sharing the stories of women artists and illustrators over the last few months. I didn’t set out to look for them, but one woman led to another. Like women warriors, women journalists and women inventors, even women artists who were well known and successful in their time are…
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Before Walt Disney…
A decade before Walt Disney released his first animated short, “Alice’s Day at the Sea” in 1924, illustrator Louis Glackens (1866-1933) created trailblazing animated shorts featuring mermaids, anthropomorphic beasts, and political satire. His career has often been treated as a footnote to that of his younger brother, Ashcan School artist William J. Glackens.[1] Both Glackens…
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