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Interview with Aaron Meshon
For our first interview here at illostribute, I’m proud to have talented illustrator Aaron Meshon. Aaron is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and now lives and works in New York City. His work has been seen throughout the world in hundreds of publications as well as on products such as lunch [...]
Al Hirschfeld
Louise Kerz once referred to her late husband as the logo of the American Theatre. Rarely has an artist been so thoroughly synonymous with his or her subject matter. Al Hirschfeld always insisted he was an artist and not a journalist; nonetheless, no better or more complete visual record of Broadway exists outside his inimitable [...]
John Held Jr.
With unflinching irreverence and caustic wit, John Held Jr.’s pen lampooned the very decadence and superficiality of the Roaring Twenties, that he, in many ways helped manufacture and is so closely associated with. Although brilliant in their satirical evaluation of the Flaming Youth of the 1920′s and early 30′s, Held’s flappers, sheiks and drugstore cowboys constitute only [...]