The Art of the Elegant Line: Works from the Kelly Collection of American Illustration

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Book Description:

The Art of the Elegant Line: Works from the Kelly Collection of American Illustration was published as the exhibition catalog for a February 16-April 4, 2003 exhibition at the Flippo Gallery, Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia. An essay by Elizabeth Marecki Alberding, collections manager for the Kelly Collection of American Illustration provides an overview of the collection. The artists whose work is included in this catalog are John Wolcott Adams, Reginald Bathurst Birch, Franklin Booth, Walter Harrison Cady, Joseph Clement Coll, Will Crawford, James Montgomery Flagg, A. B. Frost, Charles Dana Gibson, John Held Jr., Robert Lambdin, Orson Lowell, Rose O'Neill, Russell Patterson, Clara Elsene Peck, Joseph Pennell, Henry Pitz, William Andrew (Willy) Pogany, Howard Pyle, Louis Rhead, and N. C. Wyeth. All of the exhibited artists have short biographical essays and at least one example of their work illustrated.