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John Chamberlain called it "the first real book-length introduction to what war can mean to a peace-loving people." Lewis Gannett said its pages are "the most graphic, factual, frightened and frightening picture of frontline battle I have yet seen in print." Joseph Henry Jackson of the San Francisco Chronicle found it "one of the most truthful accounts of action in this war-and one of the most vivid pieces of writing on record." "About as near as you can get, in an armchair, to being in the midst of battle," said The Nation. And Foster Hailey wrote...
...paper has all equipment needed except the brains. It has photographic equipment in the form of a Speed Graphic and a well stocked darkroom. News men will be furnished with a gilt edged typewriter and busy board men may expect a well filled contract book which needs only a few signatures to make it shine...
Faddists of the primitive were fascinated. For Miss Willson's paintings (of subjects like General Washington on Horse, The Prodigal Son Receiving His Patrimony, Riotous Living, Henry and His Pet Goat, Lovers) revealed a forthright, uninhibited graphic touch as clear and gay as sunlight. Typical was General Washington, decorative, naive, fantastic. General and horse were suspended in air, unpropped by Delaware ice cakes or the neoclassic columns of Mount Vernon. The plume on the General's tricorne hat looked like a Christmas tree. Though utterly alone, the Father of His Country drew rein and fired his pistol...
Gustave D ore's Inferno has been the standard visualization of Hell ever since 1861. For graphic-minded moderns, as for Victorians, the illustrations have three sure-fire hellfire appeals: they tell the story, make a clear moral point, radiate the literal horror of a waxworks...
Born in Coytesville, N.J., Price grew up near the late, famed water-colorist and graphic artist "Pop" Hart, and attributes his earliest and soundest inspiration to that master of the homely subject. Price has never been to art school. For his cartooning guidance he uses models, a big collection of his own candid sketches - and memory. He prefers the last...