PowerOfBabel

The New Year is a very odd holiday. It is secular, almost arbitrary, and yet a set of traditions and rituals have come to cluster around it...

THE BOAR'S HEAD CAROL The boar's head in hand bear I, Bedecked with bays and rosemary. And I pray you, my masters, be merry Qu...

Includes work by Scot Gustafson, Arthur Szyk, Frank C. Pape, W. W. Denslow (Thanks, Aputsiaq!), and J. C. Leyendecker.

If you are like me, you have probably seen the work of J. C. Leyendecker and mistaken it for that of Norman Rockwell; this is completely ...