July 18, 2025
Tag: Sketch Artists 3
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America’s Sketch Artists
Part 3 of 6Bill Kane
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When I started this series, the unknown was the only common factor applied to the list of artists I pre-selected. A perfect example is a story I found about Beach Haven, New Jersey, newspaper man and sketch artist, Bill Kane. It seems that one day in 1976, Bill who was lovingly called “Citizen Kane” decided…
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November 21, 2021 2 Comments
Field Guides still sell in the millions. The first one (all about birds) appeared in 1902, the work of Chester Reed. The subjects later broadened to trees, then rocks, reptiles, fish and a host of others. Here in America we had Peterson whose art also appeared on postcards, but in the United Kingdom, R. J. Wealthy was the artist Tuck turned to for his wildlife postcards.