Comments on: Winslow Homer: Illustrating America

By: Todd

Todd — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:08:09 +0000

30 years ago I read everything I could get my hands on about Homer, I could not get enough of him, and somehow he has slipped slowly out of my consciousness> Thank you for posting this.

By: Brendan Campbell

Brendan Campbell — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:58:17 +0000

The ‘illustration issue’ is a very interesting one. Here in Ireland the very fine illustrative work of Jack B. Yeats (brother to the poet W.B. Yeats) is frequently passed over or downplayed in favour of his paintings and the prominent Irish Realist painter Robert Ballagh was in recent years publicly dismissed by a well-known and powerful arts administrator as a ‘mere illustrator’ – to which he responded with considerable vigour (see flickr.com/photos/nerosunero/3638331341/ ).

The world of illustration often seems to me like a vast unexplored continent, unknown and uncharted by those in the ‘regular’ artworld. Although a great deal of the most interesting and exciting work in the visual arts for at least the last decade seems to have been actually happening there rather than the galleries, little is publicly exhibited.

One of the many strengths of your excellent blog is that it is helping to change this.

By: Daniel van Benthuysen

Daniel van Benthuysen — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:32:43 +0000

Your point about the number of artists as illustrators is well taken. What’s more, Homer also falls into another subset: the large number of illustrators who worked specifically for newspapers, but are remembered as ‘fine artists.’ John Sloan, Everett Shinn and Reginald Marsh all worked for New York and Philadelphia papers in the first half of the 20th century

By: Margaridaa

Margaridaa — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 08:41:03 +0000

This is really a good work, this blog.(I’m following since a very long time!)

Congratulations! :D