Archive for the 'drawing' Category

Offering a Painter for History’s Reconsideration

You can never know everything about anything, Certainly not art, and not even, it turns out, New York art galleries. Case in point: A few weeks ago I received a terse e-mail message from Deedee Wigmore asking me why I hadn’t included the show of Charles Green Shaw at her gallery, D. Wigmore Fine Art, [...]

William Steig - King of Cartoons

Children may know William Steig as the creator of Shrek, but their grandparents can trace the ornery green ogre’s roots through a body of children’s books, New Yorker cartoons and drawings dating back to the Depression. Neither group will be disappointed by the Jewish Museum’s exhibition “From The New Yorker to Shrek: The Art of [...]