Classic Wall Street Journal Art

In the following posts, I’ll be sharing Classic Wall Street Journal Art I created while working at the paper in the 80’s. I say “Classic” referring to the time prior to the acquisition of the WSJ by Rupert Murdoch’s NewsCorp. Before NewsCorp, interestingly, WSJ was a black-and-white only paper which used illustration instead of photography. Printing in this traditional manner, the paper maintained a shrewd design direction, radiating an aura of reliable integrity, disciplined and Fact-based.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

I introduced the current ‘Hedcut’ portrait style to the newspaper. My engraving-looking drawings evoked the steel-engraved images found on stock certificates and banknotes, lending a mark of distinction.

But, there were other subjects to be treated… the following are a few of them:

Converted Mill Building

‘Big Three’ at Yalta

Llama

There will be many more to come… Stay Tuned!