Illustrations

In 1958, Robert Rauschenberg began a difficult series of illustrations of Dante Alighieri’s fourteenth-century poem Inferno. The thirty-four mixed-media images foreground the process of their…
The internet age has made full-color imagery overwhelmingly accessible. This is to such an extent that it can be difficult to remember that, at the time these featured illustrations were created,…
A look at the work of one of the Golden Age's greatest illustrators, Edmund Dulac, and the evolution of his stylistic approach during his lifetime.

The NMAI welcomes Geoff Gaunt, Owner of Providence Picture Frame & Dryden Gallery, to our 2019 Summer Lecture Series to educate our audience about the delicate art of framing and conservation…