Product Description: A comprehensive reference covering over 140 years and 650 artists from the Civil War through the entire 20th century, "The Illustrator in America includes a biographical sketch on each artist along with a time-line chart that provides the various influences of styles and schools needed to understand the artists and their work...read more

As famous in their day as the authors whose stories they illustrated, the six artists profiled in this nostalgic collection-N.C. Wyeth, Howard Pyle, Harvey Dunn, Frank Schoonover, Philip R. Goodwin and Dean Cornwell-used their unique talents at narrative depiction to bring to life places and times in ways no modern medium has surpassed. Vividly reproduced directly from the original paintings that illustrated the pages of popular books and magazines of up to a century ago, many of the pictures are seen here for the first time, just as the artists painted them. The paintings presented in this handsome volume lured readers to the exciting adventure tales of buccaneers and cowboys, hunters and outlaws, pirate fiction and historical romance written by Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, James Branch Cabell, and other favored writers of the day. Although commissioned to illustrate the written word, these storytelling works of art can stand alone. No text is needed to understand the drama of Howard Pyle's Dead Men Tell No Tales, N. C. Wyeth's The Magic Pool, Frank Schoonover's A Northern Mist, and the dozens of other captivating paintings presented here. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Al Williamson is a legendary fifty year veteran comic-book and adventure-strip artist. Williamson has glorified E.C.'s Weird Science, won awards for his Flash Gordon, and Marvel-ous inking, inspired a generation of imitators with his Creepy and Eerie magazine work, and has been universally recognized as the truly classic Star Wars comics artist...read more

Seventy-three large, full-color plates feature the illustrations of Maxfield Parrish, Charles M. Russell, Frederic Remington, Norman Rockwell, J. C. Leyendecker, Mort Kunstler, and others

Portrays the famed jazz singer's life and career, recounting her tragic fate stemming from stardom, loneliness, and drug addiction (view table of contents)

Product Description: This book introduces you to an exciting approach to animal drawing. It was especially created by a group of America's most eminent artists who have demonstrated the methods they have used on their distinguished careers.You, too, will find that animal drawing is one of the areas of art that can bring you much fun and excitement...read more

Demonstrates ways in which to analyze the human figure in terms of basic forms and considers the special problems involved in drawing individual parts of the body

Product Description: Book by Reed, Walt, Reed, Roger