Illustration House

08/19/2016

This is not about taking sides in a battle over Norman Rockwell's artistic legitimacy. I'm signing this petition because I'm taking a stand against the irresponsible scholarship and shoddy biography that we see in Solomon's book. I've written about this at length in an article in the second issue of the Journal of Illustration, in 2014. For the Norman Rockwell Museum to support the book as free speech is one thing, but to promote the book as if it contained revelatory facts is quite another. The Museum must come clean about why they've promoted the book.

Were Norman Rockwell alive this book would be libelous, Deborah Solomon would be sued, and his Museum would not endorse or sell the book under any circumstances. Norman Rockwell is my grandfather; the family spent every magical Thanksgiving and Christmas with him in my childhood. But to people aroun...

07/17/2016

Roger and Zaddick will be at the San Diego Comic Con next week, booth 4302, or thereabouts. Among many wonderful drawings and paintings, we will be bringing work by terrific "new" talent, Kev Ferrara, from his recent Dead Rider book.

02/27/2016

Illustration House is moving again! It's just down a flight in the same building, but we're undergoing the great disruption right now, and probably until mid-March. I apologize to all the people who have tried to reach us recently and received no response. I will post updates here. — Roger Reed

04/16/2015

The memorial for my father, Walt Reed, will be held at the Society of Illustrators (New York) on April 20, at 6:00 pm. You are hereby invited to attend and may rsvp via this page of theirs:
http://www.societyillustrators.org/Events-and-Programs/Special-Events/2015/Memorial/Remembering-Walt-Reed.aspx

03/22/2015

An assessment of Walt Reed's impact, from Doug Dowd: http://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2015/3/20/on-the-passing-of-walt-reed

It has been reported that Walt Reed died Wednesday (March 18, 2015) at the age of 97. I got the news from Roger Reed on Walt's page, and word has caromed around the illustration research community since. I am sorely disappointed that my old friend and colleague Jeff Pike is in Italy, becau…

03/19/2015

Our founder, Walt A. Reed, passed away today. We will post the date and time of a memorial service.

03/14/2015

We just had an unexpected visit from a dozen students from the Maastricht Art School, in the Netherlands. We've had groups from Savannah and Vancouver before, but this is, I think, the most far-flung yet.

02/28/2015

We're having the first one-man show of Frank Thorne's work opening on March 7 from 4:00-7:00. Come and wear your barbarian gear, or whatever you've got! Yes, Red Sonya will be here too.

11/27/2014

“There IS a Santa Claus!” is the caption for this streamlined Christmas cover for Life magazine by Coles Phillips. This flapper is happy to get nothing for Christmas but an orange in her silk stocking and a check for $100, which was worth something in 1926.

11/19/2014

We have postponed the date of our sale to December 6 !!