Design for a 7" x 5" stationery card
Design for a cylindrical food package.
Jane Austen, based on a contemporary painting
The composer; illustration for the Winter 2011-12 issue of the Claremont Review of Books
David Foster Wallace; portrait from the Winter 2011-12 issue of the Claremont Review of Books
Cartoon from the Winter 2011-12 issue of the Claremont Review of Books
Americans in Paris; illustration for a review of a David McCullough book on that subject.
(Mockup) cover for Winter-Spring 2012 issue of the Claremont Review of Books
An interesting texture, suitable for fabric; December, 2011
The Foundations of America; magazine illustration; December, 2011
Portrait of Malcolm X, based on a news photo; magazine illustration, December 2011
The New York Public Library (Steven Schwartzman Building); illustration for a review of Henry Reed's book on the architecture of the building
Christmas greeting card; December, 2011
Illustration for a review of books on materialism
Design for button; about 1 inch diameter.
A design similar to the previous one; suggestive of a candy bar wrapper
The classic look
Drawing for the Claremont Review of Books; print size about 8" wide (November, 2011)
Designs for lampshades; a four seasons motif
Lampshade detail; base of shade has 14" diameter
Lampshade, mounted. Not altogether very successful, but a good enough for a first try.
Cover illustration for the Fall 2011 issue of the Claremont Review of Books
Illustration published in the Fall 2011 issue of the Claremont Review of Books
Illustration to illustrate a review of a David Brooks book, published in the Fall 2011 issue of the Claremont Review of Books
Drawing for the Fall 2011 issue of the Claremont Review of Books
Natural Law vs.Positive Law; Illustration published in the Fall 2011 issue of the Claremont Review of Books
House ad for the Fall 2011 issue of the Claremont Review of Books
Illustration of the climactic scene from The Artist of the Beautiful (short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The Hall of Fantasy (Illustration for Hawthorne story)
Design for Book Cover
Book cover; September, 2009
Another version of the previous image
Design for a Book Cover; September, 2011
The Latest
Illustration for the Claremont Review of Books; Summer 2011
The Gray Lady Confronts the Competition: Illustration for the Claremont Review of Books; Summer 2011
Paul Johnson Reminisces
Grand Old Party Foreign Policy
Frank Sinatra and the Muses
St. Francis of Assisi Endeavors to Convert the Sultan; drawing after Gustave Dore for the Claremont Review of Books
Illustration for the Clarmont Review of Books; Summer 2011
Illustration for a review of the book American Grace (a survey of religious practice in America)
Yet another caricature of the irascible writer, H. L. Mencken
Arrival of the Good Samaritan at the Inn; drawing after Gustave Dore for the Claremont Review of Books
Cover of the Tenth Anniversary issue; print size 10.5" x 13.75"
King Obama Shusses the Waves (of Terror)
Drawing for a review of a book on Germany, reviewed by Michael Knox Beran. Published in the Claremont Review of Books, Winter/Spring 2011
Fradkin
Hayward
Rakove
Illustration for a Diana Schaub essay
Portrait of the late Bill Buckley for a review by George H. Nash, in the Claremont Review of Books
Illustration for a review by Carnes Lord of George W. Bush's autobiography, published in the Claremont Review of Books
The Browns, son and father; both governors of California. For an essay in the Claremont Review of Books, by William Voegeli
Reagan contemplating the bust of Eisenhower
Illustration for an essay by Harvey Mansfield on de Tocqueville, in the Claremont Review of Books
Illustration for a review by Bradley C. S. Watson, in the Claremont Review of Books
Illustration for a James Q. Wilson review in the Claremont Review of Books
Illustration for a Michael Barone review in the Fall 2010 Claremont Review of Books
Illustration for a Jeremy Rabkin review in the Fall 2010 issue of the Claremont Review of Books
Illustration for a Judith Miller review in the Fall 2010 issue of the Claremont Review of Books
Illustration for a Peter Skerry review in the Fall 2010 issue of the Claremont Review of Books
Illustration for a Christina Hoff Sommers review of The Second Sex, in the Fall 2010 issue of the Claremont Review of Books
Illustration for a Christopher Caldwell review of David Remnick's Obama biography; Claremont Review of Books, Fall 2010
I sent this drawing as a Christmas card in December, 2010.
Illustration for a Cheryl Miller review of a Somerset Maugham biography; for the Fall 2010 issue of the Claremont Review of Books
Characters from Rappacini's Daughter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne (revised version)
Another illustration of Rappaccini's Daughter; print size, 5" wide
Illustration for a James Kirchik review (of The Strong Horse, by Lee Smith), in the Summer 2010 issue of the Claremont Review of Books
Illustration for a review of a book on medieval philosophy; Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2010
Drawings that show the US military academies; for the Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2010
Paul Ryan; illustration for a William Voegeli essay in the Claremont Review of Books; Summer 2010
Portrait of the celebrated jurist, for the Claremont Review of Books; Summer 2010
Business card; 2" x 3.5"
Sketch design for CRB cover
Illustration for a review of books on the US constitution; published in the Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2010
Illustration for a review of the novel Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Drawing for a Mary Eberstadt review of a Gail Collins book; Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2010
Caricature of the legal scholar/bureaucrat Cass Sunstein
God and the Founders; print size about 2 inches across
Illustration for a story by Hawthorne (Earth's Holocaust); July, 2010
Another Hawthorne illustration; July, 2010: the print size of this work is 5" width
Another Hawthorne illustration, July, 2010; 5" wide, print size
Portrait of Ayn Rand, for reviews of her biographies, by Charles Murray; in the Claremont Review of Books; Spring 2010.
One might suppose that this is an old idea; but you won't find it on Google images. (October, 2010)
Design #1 for tote bag
Design #2 for tote bag
Design #3 for tote bag
Design #4 for tote bag
Design #5 for tote bag
A rosette form, created in Photoshop
Designs for folding screen panels, based loosely on French ideas of the 17th and 18th centuries; this is work in progress
Designs for panels of folding screens, based on Arabic and Italian patterns
Design for four-panel trompe l'oeil folding screen
Sketch for a trompe d'oeil folding screen
Sketch for a folding screen wtih Adamesque ornament
Illustration that appeared with a Wilfred McClay essay, in the Claremont Review of Books; Spring 2010
Charles Dickens; from a review by Paul Cantor, in the Claremont Review of Books; Spring 2010
Illustration for a review of Sarah Palin's autobiography, by John J. Pitney, Jr.
Illustration for an article on financial bubbles, by Robert Samuelson, in the Spring 2010 issue of the Claremont Review of Books
Thomas Jefferson; drawn for the Claremont Review of Books in 2009
Illustration from the Spring 2010 issue of the Claremont Review of Books
Illustration from a review by Mark Blitz, in the Claremont Review of Books; Spring 2010
Illustration from a Richard Vedder essay, published in the Claremont Review of Books; Spring, 2010
The New Adam and Eve; illustration of a short story by Hawthorne; drawing published in The New Atlantis; Spring 2010
Illustration for Hawthorne short story, The New Adam and Eve
Cover of the CRB, printed in February, 2010; I made illustrations for all the articles, but some were not used.
Drawing for Claremont Review of books: article by Steven Hayward; February, 2010
Drawing for article in the Claremont Review of Books, by James Q.Wilson; February, 2010
Churchill and his Bloomsbury contemporaries; illustration for an Algis Valiunas essay in the Claremont Review of Books; Winter 2009
Drawing for an article by Jeremy Rabkin, in the Claremont Review of Books; February, 2010
Drawing for an article by John O'Sullivan, in the Claremont Review of Books, February, 2010
Drawing for an article by Walter Russell Mead, in the Claremont Review of Books; February, 2010
Drawing for article by Gerard Alexander, in the Claremont Review of Books; February, 2010
Drawing for article by Angelo Codavilla, from the Claremont Review of Books; February, 2010
Drawing for article by Theodore Dalrymple, in the Claremont Review of Books; February, 2010
illustration for an article about St. Gaudens sculpture, by Allan Greenburg, published in the Claremont Review of Books; February, 2010
Drawing for article by Allen Guelzo, in the Claremont Review of Books; February, 2010
Illustration for William Voegeli's article in the Claremont Review of Books; February, 2010
Design for rug; January, 2010
Thanks to Photoshop, it's easy to experiment with patterns and colors.
Cover art for the Claremont Review of Books; Summer 2007 issue
Illustration for the Claremont Review of Books, c.2006
The Federal Octopus
John Stuart Mill
The Public Option
(For detail, use click the little magnifying glass in the upper right corner.)
Preview cover, Claremont Review of Books; Summer 2009
Proposed cover for the Claremont Review of Books, Spring 2009
Cover of the CRB, inspired by the arch in New York City's Washington Square
Illustration for an article by Michael Anton, in the Fall 2009 issue of the Claremont Review of Books
Illustration for an article by Angelo Codavilla, in the Fall issue of the Claremont Review of Books
From the Fall issue of the CRB
Illustration for an article by Harry Jaffa, in the Fall 2009 issue of the Claremont Review of Books
Is Deregulation at Fault? Cartoon for the Fall, 2009 CRB that attempts to explain the banking crisis of 2008.
From the Fall 2009 CRB
The Crisis of Islam; illustration from the Fall, 2009 issue of the CRB
All Men Are Brothers
Portrait of the philosopher, for the Claremont Review of Books, Fall 2009
On the fate of Capitalism; from the Fall 2009 issue of the CRB
Portrait of Robert Bork, for the Fall 2009 CRB
Here the People Rule; illustration for an article in the Fall, 2009 CRB
Allegory of the Constitution
Preliminary design for a book cover; September, 2009
Design for textiles and wallpaper
Up close view of the previous page
Dove and Hawk; an illustration for some long forgotten essay that appeared in American Heritage magazine, sometime in the 1990s.
The GOP at the Museum of Natural History
Illustration for the Claremont Review of Books; Summer 2009
The Statue of Liberty; drawn for the Claremont Review of Books, c. 2004; the print size was about 9" x 12".
Aristotle and Socrates; drawn for the Claremont Review of Books; Summer 2009
Design for a plate or decorative tile of some sort
Rudyard Kipling, drawn for the Claremont Review of Books, Summer, 2009
Nathaniel Hawthorne, drawn for The New Atlantis; December, 2009
Illustration for Hawthorne story, Dr.Heidegger's Experiment. Here, the Doctor administers the fountain-of-youth drug to his guests.
The results of Dr. Heidegger's experiment
Illustration to go with essay by Forte, on the qualifications of judgeship.
The Great Inflation; illustration for the Claremont Review of Books; Summer 2009
The Progressives' Progress Illustration for Uhlmann; Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2009
CRB art for Stephens, Summer 2009
Revised Caricature of Robert Reich, for Voegeli article; CRB, Summer 2009
Illustration for reviews of Herodotus translations; Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2009
FDR; caricature for the Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2009
The Contemplative Reader; art for the Contents page of the Summer 2009 Claremont Review of Books
Clothespins
Gourds; an illustration for the NY Times, c. 1982
Another early still life
FDR; unpublished drawing, c.1997
Recent (2009) work for Notre Dame Magazine
Another drawing for Notre Dame Magazine
Design for a coffee cup/store sign
Round frame, suitable for what?
Academic Still Life
My business card
Drawing for column by Carl Schramm, published online in Forbes
Work in progress; blog illustration
2nd version blog illustration
Harry S.Truman
Richard Nixon; illustration from the Claremont Review of Books
My neighbor, Emmanuelle
To read the review, go to: http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.1256/article_detail.asp
The official seal of the State of Virginia, designed in 1776; redesigned many times since; this is my version: published 2009 in the Claremont Review of Books
Conservatives in Conclave, after the defeat of 2008
Illustration for an essay by Lawrence Mead in the Spring 2009 issue of the Claremont Review of Books
Illustration for The Great Gatsby
From the Claremont Review of Books, Spring, 2009
Portrait of Margaret Thatcher, for the Spring 2009 CRB
The Reconciliation of Capital and Labor Illustration for the Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2009
The American Family
Artwork for a book review by Dorothea Israel Wolfson published in the Claremont Review of Books, Winter, 2008
The Rebel
Illustration for a review of a book on the English revolution, in the Claremont Review of Books, Winter 2008
Cover art for the Claremont Review of Books; Winter, 2008
Artwork to accompany an essay by Diana Schaub, published in the Claremont Review of Books, Winter 2008 issue Link to the essay: http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.1596/article_detail.asp
Lincoln and his generals; based on the famous painting
Lincoln's cabinet
Illustration for an essay by John Channing Briggs published in the Claremont Review of books; it shows Lincoln reading Shakespeare's Macbeth Return to elliottbanfield.com
Illustration from the Winter, 2008, issue of the Claremont Review of Books
Illustration for an article in the Claremont Review of Books: "Lincoln as a War Leader"; Winter 2008-9
lllustration for an essay by Christopher Flannery in the Claremont Review of Books; it shows an incident from the early career of Abraham Lincoln Link to the essay: http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.1600/article_detail.asp
Lincoln and the Constitution; drawing for the New York Times, c. 1998
A group of authors; art for the Winter 2008 issue of the Claremont Review of Books Link to the essay by Abigail Thernstrom: http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.1597/article_detail.asp
Allegory of Imperialsm; drawing from the Summer 2008 issue of the Claremont Review of Books
Another view of imperialism
Illustration for an essay by William Voegeli on the roots of leftist condescension, published in the Claremont Review of Books Return to elliottbanfield.com
Illustration for a review (in the Claremont Review of Books) by Michael Barone of a new Nixon bio.
Cartoon that accompanied an essay in the Claremont Review of Books; it espouses a preference for limited government
Illustration for the Winter issue of the Claremont Review of Books; it went with a review of recent books on climate questions.
Another illustration for the Claremont Review of Books; Winter 2008. The drawing went with a review of a book on health care politics.
Medical Malpractice; illustration for an article in The American Spectator, c.1999
Illustration from the cover of the Claremont Review of Books, Summer, 2008. The primary races were exhausting for everyone; the Democrat ticket was still undecided when the picture was drawn.
This drawing appeared on the cover of the Claremont Review in November, 2008.
The Moral Universe; cover art for the Claremont Review of Books, Spring 2002
CRB cover art; Fall, 2002; the invasion of Iraq was immanent
This illustration appeared with a review of the Benny Morris book on the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.
Illustration from the Claremont Review; this went with a review of a book about Jewish traditions, by Ruth R. Wisse
How the War Was Fought
This drawing, about the celebrated and supposedlly neurotic James family, was intended for the CRB, but it never ran.
Return to the home page: elliottbanfield.com
This drawing appeared as an illustration in the Claremont Review of Books, Fall, 2008. It was based pretty closely on a cartoon of the early 19th century. It represents an enduring opinion (or predjudice) about the French.
This illustration went with a CRB article by James V. DeLong, on the subject of copyright perils of the Internet. Return to the home page: www.elliottbanfield.com
Who's in charge?
"Judicial Burden"; illustration from the California Lawyer, a magazine.
Judicial Overseeing of Public Schools
Judicial Gerrymandering
Third World Misery
Illustration for an essay by James W. Ceaser, in the CRB, Fall 2008 issue. The subject is primary selection of candidates for the US presidency.
Illustration to accompany an essay by William Voegeli in the Fall 2008 CRB
Illustration from the CRB Winter 2008 issue to accompany an article on crime. Return to the homepage: elliottbanfield.com
Portrait of Justice Clarence Thomas; illustration from the cover of the Claremont Review of Books; summer, 2008
Illustration to accompany an essay in the Fall 2008 CRB, by Paul Cantor.
Illustration from a review by Patrick J. Garrity in the Spring, 2007 Claremont Review of Books
Book Review
The Shakespearean Stage
A Scene from Shakespeare
A Dickensian Character
The Struggling Writer
This is a revised version of the following drawing.
Before the Surge
The Emigre
From the Fall 2002 CRB
Portrait of the celebrated writer; illustration for an essay by Diana Schaub, published in The New Atlantis, in 2008
Cover art for the Claremont Review of Books
Herbert Hoover and FDR; illustration from the Claremont Review of Books, 2007
Portrait of the writer Christopher Hitchens. This work was based on a fuzzy photo that I found via Google; I'm not sure if the man looks like this, but this is the way I think of him. The drawing was published in the Claremont Review of Books.
Pen and ink portrait of the late John Updike, made for the NY Times Book Review, c. 1982
The Illiad and the Odysey
This drawing of the famous man of letters was published in the New York Times Book Review in the '80s, and later modified for the Claremont Review of Books, published there in the Summer, 2008. The art was based on photos from the NYT picture collection. The original art (ink on paper; pre computer technology) is owned by the University of Texas
....and the walls came tumbling down...
The ageless Geoge F. Will; portrait (based on a photo, of course).
I think this drawing was published in the Boston Globe, c.1990
Tolstoy; from the Summer 2008 issue of the CRB; this illustration accompanied a review by Lesley Herrmann
Marcel Proust; from a book published by David Godine, 2005
Raymond Chandler; portrait of the author from a book published by David Godine, 2006
H. L. Mencken; portrait from a book published by David Godine; 2006
Edith Wharton; from a book published by David Godine; 2006
J K Rowling
Ray Bradbury; drawn for the NY Times Book Review sometime in the '80s
Gunter Grass; drawn for The New Yorker magazine, c.1998
W. H. Auden; drawing published in the NYT Book Review, c.1983; this is a very large pen drawing.
RR; drawn for Time magazine, back in the early 80s.
T. E. Lawrence, aka Lawrence of Arabia
Eleanor
Three Capitalists.
This design (never used) would require two colors. it is a bit warmer and friendlier, perhaps, than the preceding one-color design.
One of several large drawings for special sections of the New York Daily News; 1996
Another drawing for the Daily News, c.1996
"Restaurant City"; drawing for the cover of a Daily News (NYC) section
Cover art for the Spring 2003 Claremont Review of Books; a scene from an Alan Furst novel
Illustration from a pamphlet on abortion, c. 1988
This cartoon was intended to illustrate a sentence from President Bush's second inaugural address.
"The Communist Shipwreck"; cartoon from The New York Sun; a scene suggested by the editor. There was a justly triumphal mood in the air just then, January, 2005.
"Condi Rice Crossing the Ice" cartoon of January 20, 2005 from The New York Sun. The Dems gave Condi a hard time during her confirmation hearings to be state secretary
The Birth of a Nation (Iraq); The New York Sun, August 19, 2005
"Of course we need nuclear weapons! Can't you see we're surrounded by peaceful democratic regimes?" (Cartoon from the NY Sun, 021005
"Cold Spring" This cartoon appeared on April 7, 2006. The Iraq business wasn't going well at all.
"Gold Star Mother" cartoon published August 22, 2005
Sketch for the preceding image. Black and white is sometimes more effective than color.
Sketch for a cartoon: this was made around the time that terror bombings took place in the London transit system.
"Success has many fathers; failure is an orphan."
"Battle Fatigue" published June 8, 2006. The big story at the time was the alleged atrocity committed by US troops at Haditha; so the Marines were getting hammered from both sides. The central image was inspired by a well known photo of the time.
The Pirate of Turtle Bay (John Bolton, UN ambassador); cartoon from The New York Sun, published in the summer of 2006
"Boots" This drawing appeared on the eve of the Israeil invasion of Lebanon in 2006; Ariel Sharon, was felled by a stroke at that time, and his boots were hard to fill.
Pope John Paul II died on April 2, 2005; his successor was chosen soon there after. This cartoon marked these events.
"All Aboard!"
"The Nobel Club"; published in The New York Sun, August 18, 2006. Gunter Grass, who won the Prize in 1994, revealed at this time that as a youth he had been a member of the Nazi war machine. But it's the self congratulatory tone of the group, not their misdeeds, that is the message of the drawing.
This drawing appeared in The New York Sun in 2006 (?) when Castro's retirement became immanent.
"United Nations Fashion Show" published in The New York Sun, September 15, 2005
This cartoon appeared when Henry Paulson took over the helm of the U.S. Treasury Department; it might have better described his mental state when he confronted the banking crisis of 2008, which was unforeseen.
This cartoon was my comment on US diplomacy that relied on "six part talks" to get rid of N.Korean nukes.
"So Near and Yet..." This was my comment on Carl Rove's position during the Plame scandal, when his opponents tried unsuccessfully to involve him in the controversy.
Italy won the world cup in soccer in 2006; it was a big deal at the time; everyone liked the Italians. My image was inspired, of course, by Delacroix.
"The Perils of June"; cartoon from The New York Sun, published around graduation time, 2005
"Beleaguered"; the New York transit workers went on strike, demanding more money just before Christmas in 2005, wreaking havoc until their demands were met.
"Dora Maar Discovers Her Portrait"
"Democracy Hatches"; cartoon from the New York Sun, January 27, 2006
"Al Gore, Superman" cartoon published July 6, 2006
"The Progress of Kim Jong Il"
"Le plus grand artiste du trapèze."; cartoon from The New York Sun, June 1, 2005. The Europeans reject the constitution proposed by Jaques Chirac, much to the glee of The New York Sun.
To Run or Not to Run
"Eliot Spitzer's Path to Higher Office"; cartoon from the Sun, 2006. The then attorney general of New York State was running for governor, using his office to raise his reputation as a "reformer". He was undone by scandal shortly after his election.
This cartoon describes the world better now than when it was published in The New York Sun, sometime in 2006.
"Homer Price's Last Donut"
Thanksgiving; based on a Thomas Nast cartoon, c.1870
Sketch for a cartoon; I attempted to revive the Father Knickerbocker character, old time symbol of New York City.
Sketch for a cartoon: the Dems can't forget the '60s, the period of their greatest glory.
This cartoon appeared in 2006, when Madonna adopted a baby from an impoverished African place.
"Someday, my son, all this will be yours!"; published at the end of 2005.
"Fat Dots" In recent years I've used my computer to fill areas of an image with patterns such as this. It's possible to build an image with contrasting patterns, just as a painter builds an image with contrasting colors.
More Fun With Dots
Homage to Keith Haring
Homage to Keith Haring2
Homage to Keith Haring3
Battle
My very last homage to Keith Haring
Design for a book cover
A facile card, but it may have to do this year.
Still More Fun With Dots
Design for wrapping paper, fabric, or wallpaper
Red, White, and Blue
Henry Adams
Historians comtemplating the bust of Washington
Phyllis Schlafly
MLK & WFB; This pair of drawings appeared in the Claremont Review of Books in the Summer 2008 issue. They illustrated a much commented upon article by William Voegeli. Here is a link the the article: http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.1543/article_detail.asp
Portrait of the author, published in the Claremont Review of Books, Winter 2007
From Entertainment Weekly, a magazine; c. 1998; I no longer have the original art; the image above is a scan from the magazine
Robert DeNiro
Darwin bearing the tablets of the new law, Evolution
FDR as seen by Conrad Black
George Soros
AS was actually a charming person, as I've mentioned elsewhere.
A Literary Duel
Illustration for a review of a book on men's wear
An endpaper design for Thornwillow Press
Proposed cover for a novel; it was rejected. I did, however, provide 8 drawings for the book, published around 1996.
Illustration for the novel mentioned in the previous page; this work was commissioned by Luke Pontifell, of the Thornwillow Press.
More illustrations from the book mentioned on the previous page: its title: The Lady Who Liked Clean Rest Rooms, by J.P.Donleavy, 1995
Two more works from that memorable volume
Yet two more.
Illustration for a short story by Louis Auchincloss; c.1997; published by the Thornwillow Press
Another drawing for an Auchincloss story.
Drawn for the Claremont Review of Books, c. 2007. This image was created in Photoshop.
Illustration for The Great Gatesby
Forest Hills
"Tennis"; design for stationery
"Boat Race"; design for stationery, c. 2003
Christmas card, designed for Cartier, the luxury retailer. Note: the yellow parts of the work are intended to be printed in a gold. i've not seen any proofs of this piece, and I might wish to redesign the work if the proofs indicate weakness.
How A Lawyer Bills His Client; cartoon for California Lawyer magazine, c. 1994
This illustration had something to do with vegetarianism; I think the client was the New York Daily News, c.1996
From the same time as the illustration on the previous page.
This drawing had something to do with cows and vegetarianism; from the New York Daily News
From the Daily News
"Pineapple"; I made this drawing (back around 1994) for my amusement, and as a demonstration of texture-rendering on scratchboard.
Designs for postage stamps
Illustration from the NY Times Book Review, c. 1983
"The End"
Illustration published in the Claremont Review of Books, c. 2003
House ad for the Claremont Review of Books
Deeper Meanings
Illustration made for American Heritage magazine. At the time, c. 1996, the US sent troops to the troubled isle; not for the first time. Or the last, one presumes.
Decoration from a book cover, c. 1999
Uncle Sam equips himself for battle; drawing for the American Heritage magazine, c. 1995
Cartouche produced for a now defunct periodical, back in the late 1980's. It might still be of use.
A cartouche with someone's initials; I don't recall exactly how this drawing came about; but the the technique is in some ways very good.
Cartouche that went with a map, published in a book
Logo variations developed for Revere Advisors (a public relations firm, I think)
Logo for the Claremont Review of Books, c. 2003
Decorative design for stationery
A horse themed design for a column art; for the Claremont Review of Books
A small version of the previous design
Crusader's seal, copied from an old print
The Alamo; I don't remember who the client was.
A small image that was used on the cover of a magazine; published, back around 1988
I copied this design from a famous postage stamp of the WW2 era.
Logo for a European financial company; c. 1995
I designed this party invitation for a small theater company, around 1997. I'm not sure how many of the celebrity guests showed up.
Logo for a defunct theater company; I designed sets for them also. They were located on upper Broadway, in New York City, back in the '90s.
A little drawing designed for a Wall Street Journal house ad, c.1990
This little drawing was designed as a logo for a column in The New York Sun; I'm not sure if it ever was used.
The Reporter; c.1996
Susanna and the Elders; a ceramic work about 12" high created at the Educational Alliance (an old art school on NYC's Lower East Side; glazed but not fired; the kiln wasn't working. The cartouche frame is a big part of the design; I really like cartouches.
Logo for a local cable TV show; I don't know if it ever aired.
A logo for a product that never was produced; drawn in the early 'nineties, before I learned about the computer.
I did this sort of illustration in the late 1980s; I think this was for Vogue.
A group of little pieces that I made a long time ago. They seem to have something to do with finance. EB
Three very small drawings
The house of cards; spot illustration to accompany a "symposium" of economic experts, published in the Claremont Review of Books, Winter, 2008
Depression graphic symbol
Message in a Bottle; design (never published) for stationery
A film crew; c.1994
New York City: Street Scene
Drawing c.1996. My Hispanic neighbors made frequent use of the neighborhood parks.
A scene from Park Ave., around 44th Street
Brooke Astor gave money to construct this subway canopy in Astor Place; it was a good spot to practice the saxophone.
Around 1996 Times Square was only partially cleaned up for the benefit of tourists; this video parlor attracted youths from the poorer sections of the city. It was a remnant of the days when Times Square was raunchy but real.
Would be tenants of an NYC coop present their application; from the NYT real estate section, c.1996
NYC subway scene
New York City: In the Strand Bookstore
"The Invisible Man" Another from the series
"The Ugly American"
"The Real Right Way to Dress for Summer"
Design for a decorative screen, with Four Seasons motif; January, 2010
Spring; work in progress (see previous image)
Design for four-panel decorative scenic screen; January, 2010
Another room divider/decorative screen. The panels are filled with an intricate design, based on leather-tooled book covers. In the final version, the medallions would be filled with individual designs.
Design for embossing seal
Design for a vase with marine motifs
Design for a ceramic vase; the figure might be rendered in low relief, then in colored glazes
Design for a ceramic decorative plaque, in a cartouche frame
"Ulysses", drawing published in the Claremont Review of Books, Winter 2008, illustrating an essay by Bruce S. Thornton
The School of Athens
"Orpheus" This is a large image, designed to be printed on large format digital printer, at 36" x 24"
Christmas card; "Annunciation to the Shepherds" This image was painted in Photoshop, and printed on my desktop printer; print size 7" x 7".
Scene from the Aeneid; illustration for a review by Anthony Esolen in the Winter 2007 issue. The illustration shows Aeneas escaping from Troy; I'd like to develop the drawing further, add more figures, etc. But time runs out. Return to the homepage: www.elliottbanfield.com
"Agon". Drawing from the Claremont Review of Books that accompanied a review of Ricardo Quinones' book, Dualisms: The Agons of the Modern World; CRB Fall 2008
The Ancient City
Homage to Picasso. (A work in progress)
Jacob and Esau
Another architectural subject: my design for a monument to the 9/11 attacks in New York City
An illustration for a WSJ article that described the lives of college classmates in later life
A drawing for the Wall Street Journal; c. 1996
Another small piece for the Wall Street Journal; this was about Father's Day
Another small WSJ drawing, c. 1999
"After 9/11"; drawing for the WSJ, c. September, 2001
Another WSJ drawing, c.1997; the subject was collaboration between cyberguys; this drawing was published at the time Google was founded.
Uncle Sam Writes the Rules and Regulations
Books for Business; drawing for the Wall Street Journal, c.1997
Lunchtime
Illustration for The Wall Street Journal: owners of small businesses (one of a series)
Another of those little portraits that I made for the WSJ, back in the 1990s
Another of those little portraits; the trick was to make interesting back grounds. This guy was an engineer or something related to heavy industry.
Another of those WSJ portraits; I regret that I don't have any record of who this person is. Evidently he was in the stock market.
Small businessman; drawing for the Wall St. Journal
Roberto Goizueta (1931-1997)
John Portman, architect
I took the leafy border from an old book, then added the tiara
Christmas Family; drawing for the WSJ, c. 1997
Bar at Night; drawing for The American Spectator
Party Time
Confrontation at the Watering Hole
"The Toast"; illustration for a short essay by R.W.Apple, published in the New York Times, c.2000
"Book Sale"; this was cover art for The American Spectator, back in the '80s. Carter had lost the election of '80, but he remained on the public stage as an author.
"The Rosenbergs", another American Spectator cover; c. 1990
The late Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.; cover art from The American Spectator, c. 1990
Michael Oakshott; from the Claremont Review of Books
Caricature of the late Bill Buckley
Yet another set of those little column head drawings; these are all on political themes.
This picture of RR was published on the cover of The American Spectator shortly after he left office. Most of the portraits of Reagan show the face of an experienced screen actor. Somehow I found a photo that showed the man without his customary mask.
Winston Churchill, based on the famous Karsh photo
These are drawings that were designed to run with and to identify regularly appearing columns in The American Spectator. They were created around 1996, and they still appear from time to time in the magazine and it's website.
Column heads for The American Spectator
More of those little drawings for The Amercan Spectator
More of those little column headings for The American Spectator
Still more of those endearing little drawings from The American Spectator.
"Diploma Mill"; drawing for the Claremont Review of Books; Spring 2009
Social Science; a rough sketch for some long ago assignment
Drawings for some long forgotten publication
The Artist at Work
This drawing was made for an advertising trade magazine; I contributed a number of little drawings like this on a monthly basis.
James Willard Hurst; published in the NYT, c. 1997
Illustration for an article by Herbert Mitgang on the famed publishing house, FSG. Back when Mitgang wrote, the logo was still in use.
On the craft of translation
Richard Brautigan, published c.1983 in the NYTBR
Portrait of Howard Nemerov, published in the NYTBR, c. 1981
Ezra Pound; locked up on account of his unpopular opinions or because he was crazy; or is there a difference?
Still Life with bust of Homer and Musical Instruments
Roland Barthes
James Baldwin; drawn for the NYT Book Review, c.1983
Samuel Johnson, based on the famed Reynolds portrait; I believe that this drawing illustrated an essay by Anatole Broyard.
Norman Mailer; another NYT Book Review drawing
Nelson Algren; drawn for the NYT Book Review, c.1983
D. H. Lawrence; drawn for the NYT Book Review, c. 1983
Writer and the Grim Reaper; from the NYT Book Review, c. 1984
Cyrus Vance and Zbigniew Brezinski
A small drawing from the late '80s, for a magazine devoted to graphic arts.
Another Bookends piece
Yet another one
A Bookends portrait, c.1983
Fairytale scene; another Bookends drawing, c. 1983
Portrait of the writer, an early Bookends portrait
The Crime Genre
Another drawing from the late 'eighties; this one to illustrate a weekly New York Times Book Review column ("Bookends"), by Herbert Mitgang; I illustrated the column for a number of years; see more examples at the end of this album
A Scary Book
The White House; second in a series commissioned by the American Enterprise Institute; for more information, visit: http://www.aei.org/basicPages/20050124104448534
The Capitol: first in a series commissioned by the American Enterprise Institute. For more information, visit: http://www.aei.org/basicPages/20050124104448534
Supreme Court; the third in a series commissioned by the American Enterprise Institute; for more information, visit: http://www.aei.org/basicPages/20050124104448534
Sketch for a political cartoon
A typical rough sketch that precedes a finished illustration.
Another rough idea: this one is about immigration.
The front flips to a vertical position, revealing the TV. Both the front and the sides of the case are customizable.
The front is a framed print or painting; behind it is a TV
This image and the next two in the album are drawings from the patent application. This is a patent pending device.
That's all, folks!
