His years illustrating pulp novels honed his sense of pictorial drama, and his meticulous research ensured historical accuracy, notably in his Civil War paintings.

Some Chicago murals “are political, and some are purely beautiful, and most are somewhere in between," artist Cyd Smillie says.

Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev only met in person at the Sundance premiere of the Ukraine war documentary.

In “Winter Carnival: A Century of Dartmouth Posters,” author and design historian Steven Heller commented that the artistic ...