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SEPTEMBER 2010
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Williamsburg
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 Dr. Seuss Fine Art Collection
 Greenwich Workshop Prints
 Disney Fine Art Prints
 Mill Pond Press Prints
 Richard Masloski Bronzes
 Sat. Evening Post Covers
 Vintage Historic Posters
 Mystic Seaport Artwork
 Linda (Chuck) Jones Ent.
 Harry Potter Limited Editions
 Bethany Lowe Plushes
 Tom Everhart (Snoopy)
 Mark Hopkins Bronzes
 
  Williamsburg, Virginia
Home of the Art-cade Gallery


Our Williamsburg area was named the 2010 “Best Family Destination” by the Budget Travel Readers Choice poll. Visit the “Historic Triangle” and stop to see the gallery too!

If you’re coming to town, may we suggest two planning sources:

Monthly Visitors’ Guide
Lodging


  Free Shipping on many pieces - Limited time offer  
 Showcasing:
 ILLUSTRATION ART / FINE ART
      Illustration Art Webportfolio
 COMIC CARTOONS
      Comic Cartoons Webportfolio
 SPORTS CARTOONS
      Sports Cartoons Webportfolio
 POLITICAL CARTOONS
      Political Cartoons Webportfolio
The illustrator as mass communicator
Original illustration art comes in many forms and is used in many ways. Classic illustrations were used to enliven covers and insides of both books and magazines. Illustrators interpreted themes on canvas and paper while transporting readers to places and adventures never before imagined. Artwork suggested what characters looked like and how the surroundings appeared; it would be impossible to think of stories without also envisioning the artist’s suggestions. Story and image became one.

Before television and the widespread availability of photography, it was the skilled illustrator who was the fashion trendsetter of the day. The beautiful women drawn by Charles Dana Gibson (“The Gibson Girls”) or Howard Chandler Christy and the stylish men portrayed by J.C. Leyendecker were to their contemporary fashion worlds what the electronic media is to “cool” trends today. Other illustrators reflected society in their art. Norman Rockwell was a storyteller beyond reproach in his “Saturday Evening Post” covers. He engaged readers with a visual language with which they could identify. His career-long theme was the celebration of American values and virtues portrayed in a hopeful culture threatened by encroaching modernity. His characters are timeless.
Magazine covers, product and travel advertisements, calendar illustrations, and patriotic posters rallying a war-weary nation all were avenues reserved for the American illustrator as a mass communicator, storyteller, and image-maker. (The Art-cade Gallery also has a representative selection of vintage wartime posters by America’s favorite illustrators; see “American Memories” page on this web site.)

Today illustration art plays a less important role in publications since the advent of computer graphics and the ability to rework photographs. But there is a continuing output of good artwork by new and talented artists to illustrate magazine and book articles – only now it is “TV Guide,” “Time,” and the “Smithsonian” rather than “Harper’s,” “Colliers,” and “Scribner’s.” But these refreshing illustrations still capture a moment to remember in a most decorative way.
 
   



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