By Hilton Kramer 9/20/04 12:00am

Two Rockwell Kents: A Moby-Dick Etcher And Stalin Admirer

Like many people of my generation in this country, I grew up reading books that were illustrated by the American artist Rockwell Kent (1882-1971). His bold, black-and-white graphic style made an emphatic impression on young readers, and his illustrated editions of Shakespeare and other literary classics-his Moby-Dick was a great favorite of mine-were often awarded Read More

By Hilton Kramer 8/13/01 12:00am

Dodd’s Enchanting Nudes: Manhattan Meets Maine

The American painter Lois Dodd (born 1927) has been a

familiar presence on the

New York art scene for almost half a century. In the 1950′s, just

out of Cooper Union, she was one of the artists who founded the Tanager Gallery

on East 10th Street, which some of us fondly remember as the Read More