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Wendy MacNaughton is an illustrator and graphic journalist based in San Francisco. MacNaughton has published eleven books, including three New York Times best-sellers. [1] MacNaughton's work combines illustration, journalism, and social work to tell the stories of overlooked people and places. [2] Her art has appeared in The New York Times, NPR ...
George Frederick Keller. George Frederick Keller (1846–?) was a cartoonist active in California, known as the primary illustrator of the San Francisco satirical magazine The Wasp. Born in Prussia, he emigrated to the United States and fought in the U.S. Civil War, settling in California around 1870. [1] [2] He apprenticed to lithographer ...
The Wasp was founded as a weekly satire magazine in San Francisco in 1876 by the Bohemian expatriate Francis Korbel and his two brothers, who also founded the Korbel Champagne Cellars. [1] [2] The first issue was published on August 5, 1876. [3] The lead artist until 1883 was George Frederick Keller. [2] The magazine was somewhat unusual at the ...
Carmen Lomas Garza. Carmen Lomas Garza (born 1948) is an Chicana artist and illustrator. She is well known for her paintings, ofrendas and for her papel picado work inspired by her Mexican-American heritage. Her work is a part of the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, [1] the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, [2 ...
This is a list of notable people from the San Francisco Art Institute (1871–2022); [1] which was formerly known as the California School of Design (1871–1915, or CSD), and California School of Fine Arts (1916–1960, or CSFA). It was also sometimes refer to as the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art (c. 1893–1906), for a building the school had ...
Sirron Norris is an American illustrator, muralist, and arts educator. [2] He is known for his work on the FOX animated television show Bob's Burgers and for numerous cartoon-style [3] public murals, including ones at Balmy Alley, Clarion Alley, and Mission Dolores Park, and galleries around San Francisco.
Douglas Tilden (May 1, 1860 – August 5, 1935) was an American sculptor. He was deaf from a bout of scarlet fever at the age of four and attended the California School for the Deaf in Berkeley, California (now in Fremont, California). [1][2]: 6 He sculpted many statues that are located today throughout San Francisco, Berkeley, and the San ...
In 1898, he moved back to New York and began his career as a newspaper and magazine illustrator, [2] working for the San Francisco Call and the San Francisco Examiner, drawing sketches and decorative work. [1] He became known particularly for his drawings of women, which won him acclaim as the successor of Charles Dana Gibson.