It's a fact of life that illustrators busy with looming deadlines sometimes resort to "borrowing" from the work of their p...

The other night I had one of those dreams...I saw a Bolles girl.   She was up in the clouds, smiling down on me.  It wasn't just any Bol...

I'd forgotten I had a scan around of the original drawing of the cover featured in the previous post. Take a close look and it tells a s...

I was waiting patiently for some excuse, oddball holiday or otherwise, to post this cover. It's a reprint that appeared in a 1946 issue ...

Above we have a couple examples of 1930s ephemera; catalogs of hand colors art posters by "well known American artists" which were...

Did you vote? Our Bolles girl is still pondering who to cast her ballot for. Let's hope she supports our party! This is one of three is...

Bolles fans worth their fodder have surely heard the resounding report that this painting sold for over 80 thousand dollars at the Heritage...

There's no reason to revisit the theme of Bolles black unless we feature one of his most outrageous covers. Netty but Nice is simply ove...

Be you a Bolles specialist or an omnivore of classic illustration art, you've likely feasted your eyes on the series of auctions of ori...

Sorry for the long absence. Blame it on my day job. In celebration of the winter Olympics I thought it only appropriate to feature one of th...

Our fetching lass is known as a comp, or comprehensive sketch, in this case for a Film Fun cover that was never to be. The painting was so...

A question by frequent visitor Gary about how many Bolles paintings got me onto this project, which is something I've been meaning to d...

Ok, so it was yesterday, but I'm not about to wait another year, simply to be calendarically correct. The Breezy Stories is a 1944 repr...

Yesterday Heritage auctions sold off another wing from the warehouse of works from the Martignetti collection. The prices for the Bolles pai...

I've just been reading a recent post in an art blog (to remain anonymous) which I typically enjoy, but not today. The post is on the to...

I was stuck, oh was I stuck. What to do for a post? The time had come to give a rest to the "wacky day" celebration (mind you, a t...

After the pain of pulling together today's post, it may be a long while before you have to endure another of my blathering entries where...

So the very day I get the devastating news that the Whoopee Girl painting was not really who we thought she was, I received an email that i...