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a Gustav Dore cartoon

     

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"FAME -- The Dream and the Reality"    a Nell Brinkley cartoon,  1927 
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a 1962 writer       see full size

      

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"Small utility tools fitted on the fingertips are the invention of Miss Lillian Greneker,
New York artist"  1937

           

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"From the neighbors ... Try this on your piano"    a 1913 cartoon

       

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1855 theater actors

       

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an Art Spiegelman comic for RAW #1,  1980

       

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"One use for Dundrearys"  (1863 sideburns)  a Fred Barnard cartoon for a 1911 publication

       

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a 1910 writer

       

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"Things we have never seen - An opulent artist discovering an obscure

and neglected art critic."      a George Morrow cartoon,  1911 

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"Infant Genius"  an 1881 cartoon

         

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"The Concert Season"   an 1839 cartoon       see full size

         

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"And they call this bohemian -- This poverty and misery that killed my mother before her time!  Well,  I wouldn't marry an artist if he were the LAST MAN ON EARTH!"  from an old comic book

         

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"Junk ... all of of it worthless trash!!!"
Reed Crandall comic book art,  1968

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"The author at work in his studio aided by the Isolator.  Outside noises being eliminated, the worker can concentrate with ease upon the subject at hand."
         

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"The Flame of Life is Love"   oh gawd... the art-school cafeteria,  1921

         

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a Tom Burckhardt art installation       see full size

         

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an artist abandons his principles and announces he's going commercial,

but no one is interested     a Rod Filbrandt cartoon

         

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"Hmm ... Do you call that good animation?"   "It's the best I can do,  Mr. Ames!"
    

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1917

         

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 1886

         

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an artist's agent

       

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a struggling humorist by Arthur Moreland,  1903       see full size

       

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a Conrad Felixmuller woodcut print, 1947

       

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"Born a Genius and Born a Dwarf"  a George Cruikshank cartoon, 1847
Little people were popular celebrities in the 1800s       see full size

       

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"Drawing from the nude"  a 1913 play on words       see full size
         

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a Louis Moe book illustration, 1897       see full size