Classic Graphic(s)

I love images that you darn well know is art and not a photo, but has that elusive quality of being alive with spirit. Gerald Cassidy was a fine painter, but also a great graphic artist, as this suite of drawings demonstrates. Incorporating artful type, and bold outlines, and silhouetted shapes, and beautiful negative space—and well, just everything is so satisfying to look at.

Classic Graphic(s)

Fine Graphic Art

There is something so universal and appealing with commercial art from the 1930s. It was the apex of a fine graphic art that had begun 50 years before, blending type and design with dynamic composition and saturated color. Those who try to imitate or emulate it in our day can't quite catch the elusive quality that came naturally to an entire generation of artists of that era. Bless their hearts, it was a wonderful generation.

New Mexico Magazine—Tom Lea

New Mexico Magazine—Gerald Cassidy

New Mexico Magazine—Gerald Cassidy