Classic WSJ Art,Part 18

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Continuing the series covering my Illustrations created for The Wall Street Journal, let’s open it up with a pair of hedcut portraits…

WSJ hedcut

Portrayed above, Ballerina Margot Fonteyn. Below, Olympian cyclist Mark Gorski…

WSJ hedcut

I assume these two portraits appeared on Page 1 of The Journal. In the paper, these images would have printed at less than 1-¼ inches wide. At this miniature scale, the portraits assumed the appearance of engravings, reminiscent of the stock certificates of the time.

Also printing at half-column-width in the paper, above, a new device that surface at the time, in the 1980’s, that enjoyed a certain popularity briefly. It’s the predecessor of today’s Inversion Table.

Often, when The Journal published a series of articles, a logo was called for. Here it an example:

For the last illustration this time, here is one of the recurring theme in the WSJ, wildlife…

Reindeer

I was pleased enough with how this drawing came out that I signed it (bottom, left corner). More next week…