John Duncan — The Children of Lir — 1914 The Children of Lir — detail

John Duncan — Faerie Enthroned

John Duncan — Aiofe (pronounced eefa) — ca 1915

I'M REALLY getting distracted from my work at hand, and have REALLY got to buckle down to make some deadlines for next week. So I need t...

John Duncan — The Taking Of Excalibur — ca 1897

John Duncan — Merlin and the Faerie Queen

The original early 20th century Metropolitan Magazine seemingly had many vibrant and fanciful covers, running for a number of years, and wa...

Front and back covers of an extremely limited edition (25) memorial to Hannes Bok printed in 1969, containing little tribute essays by some ...

The only way I can keep up with posts right now is to jump around from subject to subject, with no theme in mind. Please bear with me. The B...

. . . is a beautiful photograph of a beautiful woman . . . Laspata/DeCaro — Faith Hill One of my favorite songs is The Secret of Life , perf...

Okay, I think some of you are falling asleep out there over my posts. This'll wake you up. From Georges Barbier, a master of the exotic ...

So, one day I got to thinking that Leonardo, being 'only human', must have obsessed enough with the dream of flight, that he actuall...

A cool illustration of Leonardo by Joost Swarte, from a January 2005 New Yorker article that helped put Leonardo into perspective while revi...

Charles Addams — The New Yorker — October 10, 1953

Here I'm posting the very My Book House story that I read as a boy, about Leonardo, and the inspiration it stirred in me is still evide...

Leonardo DaVinci has been a hero to me since I was a boy. The item below is the best commercial use of his art that I can recall. It's n...

I am smitten by the design of this 1901 cover by Margaret Armstrong. Her interior art nouveau decorations accompany the African-American di...

Sounding for all the world like a Woody Allen movie, this drawing is entitled Love, Desire & Death —by Georges Barbier.

I'm glad to take requests, here and there as I can, and the request came in for more of Donn Crane illustrations—specifically from Goet...

Sir William Russell Flint was 'guilty' of Drawing Under the Influence of Mucha, here with this portrayal of Clotho—one of the clas...