Encore! Twenty-three Years Later.

When the Human Resources people at Intellegrated were planning the company picnic during the summer and they wanted a caricaturist, one of the engineers  mentioned me because I had drawn him and his wife, oh, years ago.  When would that have been, gotta check the date on the drawing, by the signature.  Oh, here it [...]

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Fashion at Marshall Field’s in the 50′s

Dorothy will be celebrating her 92nd birthday in August.  When she was in her 30′s and 40′s, she was a buyer for high end women’s clothing at Marchall Field’s on State Street in Chicago.. She still holds strong opinions about the course of fashion history, trashing most of the fashion developments from the hippies on [...]

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Crown Family Picnic: Carla and Peter

The Crown Family Picnic is an annual event and I’ve been drawing caricatures there for the past seven years.  There are always six caricaturists with each artist developing a “following,” meaning a group of fans who come back year after year to be drawn.  People collect the drawings and, I’m told, frame them at home [...]

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Wedding in Addison

It was a late evening wedding reception.  When the dancing started at nine, it felt very much like a late evening party, very rock ‘n’ roll.  Weddings have become more and more informal, not in dress, food, and flowers, but in entertainment.  Having a caricaturist there seems normal.  Well, it certainly seems normal to me. [...]

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