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This painted steel cut-out figure of a dancing flapper is no-doubt based on a drawing by John Held, Jr. Over six feet tall, it's a bit...

The Most of John Held, Jr. was published in 1972 and a book review appeared in Life magazine. The review identifies the medium seen in ye...

"Sexual freedom was a mania and it strikes me only now that for the past fifty years every generation is convinced that it was the p...

It's hard to tell what's more appealing about this book, the fact that it's a first edition from 1922 by F. Scott Fitzgerald o...

The first appearance of Mickey Mouse in book form occurred in 1931. Presumably this was Minnie Mouse's first book appearance as well, a...

Rowland Emett's fuel-economy train from 1949 is an open-air affair that apparently relies on the skillful use of mirrors for solar-pow...

The Chris Beetles Gallery is offering its annual outstanding selection of illustration art. As in previous years, the show is accompanied b...

Here is my entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #450 for November 10, 2014. The drawing is by David Borchart. "We got t...

John Wallace "Wally" Skinner was a Cleveland dealer in books and prints who had the good sense to attend the signing event for Le...