I had just declared myself finished with all the prints for my bestiary , when I decided that the image I was using for the autho...

        Any exploration of European art history ends up providing a crash course in Catholic saints and their iconography.  Today we’re l...

The Hag is astride, This night for to ride; The Devill and shee together: Through thick, and through thin, Now out, and then in, ...

        Here’s a cool illustration from a medieval French manuscript.  Don’t worry, this is not an image of animal abuse; it portrays Nat...

        In honor of July Fourth, let’s have a look at Margaret Chodos-Irvine’s illustrations for Apple Pie 4th of July by Janet S. Wong ...

        A plurale tantum is a word that, grammatically, appears only in the plural form and never (or, if you’re being less precise in t...

        Here’s a wild and amazing wood block print by Dai Zhengsheng (China, b. 1954).  Given its title, A Distant Sound from the East , ...

Gratitude first, then curiosity spurred by wonder, Gathering beauty until it overflows. Precision spurs precision, Detail detail, l...

        Gustave Baumann (German-born, USA 1881-1971) is a prolific, famous printmaker with a long and successful career.  He primarily wo...