Sunday, April 16, 2006

Life Drawing Sunday IV: Easter

Charles Howard Johnson, March 26, 1891


Charles Howard Johnson, March 26, 1891


Charles Howard Johnson, March 22, 1894


Rea Irvin, March 29, 1923

Nate Collier, April 1, 1920

Nate Collier, March 29, 1928

Charles Howard Johnson, March 26, 1891

G.B. Inwood, March 29, 1928


Charles Dana Gibson, March 27, 1902


T. Riggs, March 27, 1902


Robert Crosby, April 1, 1920


George Edmund Varian, March 22, 1894


Rodney Thomson, April 1, 1920


Russell Patterson, March 29, 1928


Garrett Price, March 29, 1928


Clarence Rowe, March 29, 1928


Otho Cushing, March 26, 1891


Gus Dirks, March 27, 1902


Garrett Price, March 29, 1928

Friday, April 07, 2006

Life Imitates Illustration


Two completely unrelated news items yesterday either concerned or evoked Norman Rockwell paintings. First, via The Comics Reporter, this story of the discovery of the authentic Breaking Home Ties.

Then, Head On Radio found a striking similarity between Harry Taylor, the man who somehow managed to slip through the screening process to speak freely to the Fearless Leaker himself, and Rockwell's Freedom of Speech.