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To: AnAmericanMother
The artsy crowd looked down on "mere illustrators" - that being a person who earned his living by selling his paintings commercially instead of hanging them in galleries and waiting for museums or foundations or rich people to buy them.

Agree. Illustrators produce the defining images of our culture in a way the fine art community has abandoned. People may recognize the name of Mondrian, but they recognize and resonate to the works of Gibson, Flagg, Disney, Shultz, Rockwell, Held Jr., Maxwell, Max, Nast, Frazetta ...

37 posted on 04/07/2006 8:31:58 AM PDT by LexBaird (Tyrannosaurus Lex, unapologetic carnivore)
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To: LexBaird
Don't forget NC Wyeth! One of my favorites.


41 posted on 04/07/2006 1:23:28 PM PDT by I still care ("Remember... for it is the doom of men that they forget" - Merlin, from Excalibur)
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