100 years of illustration

George Wright

George Hand Wright, N.A. (member of the National Academy) was an extremely prolific illustrator, watercolor painter and printmaker with a long lifetime of work and achievement.

Dedicated to Harold Irving Smith, 1892-1969

My mentor, Harold Irving Smith, was born in Newport RI in 1892 of New England Yankee stock.

Peter arno

Mr. Peters, ever the dashing young man about town used the pen name Peter Arno for his cartoons. He may even have been the best looking and best dressed cartoonist of all time.

Rene Gruau

René Gruau was born in 1909 with an aristocratic title: Renato Conte de Savagli-Ricardelli, in Rimini on the Adriatic coast of Italy. His French mother, Maria Gruau de la Chesnaie, left his father when René was but three years old. While in his young teen years, he managed to sell some of his fashion sketches to magazines in France, Germany and Italy in 1923.