Thursday, March 31, 2016

Austin Briggs


Cosmopolitan magazine, December 1958
 

 re-posted from the Today's Inspiration Group

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Born: August 9, 1908, Humboldt, MN
 Died: October 10, 1973, Paris, France


Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Peter Arno



“I love this country of ours, Summers. It’s been good to me.”
 
The New Yorker
April 4, 1959



Today's Inspiration Group
 
Peter Arno
Cartoonist
Peter Arno was a U.S. cartoonist. He contributed cartoons and 99 covers to The New Yorker from 1925, the magazine's first year, until 1968, the year of his death. Roger Angell recently described him as "the magazine's first genius". Wikipedia
Born: January 8, 1904, New York City, NY
Died: February 22, 1968, Port Chester, NY

Sunday, March 6, 2016

Friday, March 4, 2016

Edmund Franklin Ward

    artnet

Edmund Franklin Ward

Title:  A Man and His Shadow

        Medium:oil on board
        Size: 24 x 23.5 in. (61 x 59.7 cm.)