Before Philip Guston developed the loud and plush figuration of his renown, before he Anglicized his surname in adulthood, the 12-year-old known as Philip Goldstein joined the art staff of the Los ...

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Linda Gramatky Smith will address the Westport Rotary Club at noon Tuesday, May 4, at the Inn at Longshore. Her topic will be “My Father, Hardie Gramatky: Memories of a Revered Westport Artist.” In ...

Working in his Manhattan studio in the late 1930s, magazine illustrator Hardie Gramatky often watched boats maneuvering on the East River. He was especially drawn to one small tugboat that seemed to ...

Linda Gramatky Smith will address the Westport Rotary Club at noon on Tuesday, May 4, at the Inn at Longshore. Her topic will be "My father, Hardie Gramatky: memories of a revered Westport artist." In ...

To mark the 100th anniversary of author Hardie Gramatky's birth, Penguin Putnam is reissuing a restored version of Little Toot. The children's... In 1939, Hardie Gramatky saw a little tugboat in New ...

In 1939, Hardie Gramatky saw a little tugboat in New York's East River that was struggling to move. The tugboat proved an inspiration for Gramatky, an artist who was also an illustrator for Walt ...