Part 15, Classic WSJ Art

Here is your weekly selection of imagery that I produced art The Wall Street Journal in the 1980’s…

WSJ Hedcut

Above, the actor Gloria Swanson. I don’t recall why she was on Page One, but I liked the illustration enough to sign it (bottom right). Another half-column hedcut portrait, here is Vassily Kandinsky, the mauve-impressionist painter…

WSJ Hedcut

This drawing is dense with line-work. I was free at The Journal to explore diverse rendering styles. This one verging toward the engraving.

Above, a full-column illustration of a detail at the temple complex at Angkor Wat in Cambodia. I imagine there was an exhibit in NYC the article covered. Staying with the vastly topical variety contained inThe Journal, here is a complex ½-column drawing of a Viking Ship:

( I thought I could improve upon this, so I added to the image; below is my version… )

Lastly, an illustration I contributed to the Second Section, a conceptional image… I call it “Paper Tower”

… a contemplation on those bygone piles of slip receipts, skewered to a small spike, that one could see in little shops in olden times.

Stay tune to the next episode!