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Hmmm . . . Americans.

There are some excellent American illustrators. I'm not partial to Frazetta - sort of had him in the box with the Brothers Hildebrand, whom I really cannot stand - much too conventional and not much skill in body/face anatomy (I absolutely LOATHE their LOTR illustrations). But "Nemo in Slumberland" is an absolute classic.

Parrish is I think one of the American illustrators who successfully made the transition to "easel painting" for want of a better term. But my favorites are Howard Pyle, his star student of the Brandywine School N.C. Wyeth (a better painter than ANY of his children, by far, certainly better than Andrew), and my sleeper candidate, South Dakota native Harvey Dunn, who never fails to impress me.

Pyle: The Buccaneer

When All the World Was Young

Wyeth: Illustrations to "Robin Hood" Scroll down to "Little John's Fight With the Cook".

More Wyeth, one of his Maine paintings: Black Spruce Ledge

Stonewall Jackson

And Harvey Dunn, who is hard to find: American Machine Gunner The best WWI combat artist, went out with the AEF.

There is some real junk on this site that he painted as a young student, when he hadn't found his own voice yet. But scroll down through the derivative junk to the pen and ink sketch of the surrendering German. I wouldn't wish WWI on my worst enemy, but Dunn became an artist there. Everything he did after that time is really his own. Dunn website (Even the (mildly) naughty redhead. :D )

Once Dunn went back home to South Dakota, he painted images from his pioneer childhood. Probably as an antidote. "Prairie Garden" and "Buffalo Bones Are Plowed Under" These are some of the most powerful images of the American frontier I've ever seen. There is one called "Pioneer Woman" that I cannot find -- my husband bought a (cheap) copy for me, since it IS me. If you ever find a copy, you'll know what I look like. :D

And . . . how do you load images into the text? Inquiring (if mildly incompetent) minds want to know!

I'm not partial to Frazetta

I guess he's a "Guy" thing.
It was his covers to the Conan paperbacks with all the cuttin' & killin' I liked. : )

And . . . how do you load images into the text?

Very similar to what you are doing to create a "Hot Link".
For instance, to show one of the wildly good Wyeth paintings you linked to, type this:

To get this;

Parrish may be the only one to have transitioned from commercial art to "serious" art in his own lifetime, but I think as time goes by some others are gaining the stature they deserve. One example, a personal favorite of mine, is Norman Rockwell. Though he is never mentioned when we discuss the great artists of the 20th century who better captured his era on canvas? It wasnt all corny stuff either. For instance, I think Girl At The Mirror tells a whole coming of age story quite effectively in a simple scene.

And now we see Rockwell hung in the Guggenheim. How about them apples?