AI 25 TIMELINE CONTINUES...American Illustration was initiated by a group of New York-based artists who admired European Illustration, published in London by Edward Booth-Clibborn. Spurred on by Sue Coe, who had encouraged E.B.C. to create an American version, the first AI committee met on June 8, 1981. The founders, Marshall Arisman, illustrator, Co-chair, MFA Illustration Dept., School of Visual Arts; Julian Allen, illustrator, Chair of the Illustration Dept., Maryland Institute College of Art; Edward Booth-Clibborn, Chairman, Booth-Clibborn Editions; Steve Heller, Art Director, The New York Times Book Review; Robert Priest, Art Director, Esquire, are depicted in a painting by the late Julian Allen, which is featured in AI25.

Between now and November 9th - the Silver and Scarlett Gala at the Angel Orensanz Foundation - DART will present the specially commissioned AI25 Anniversary Timeline art, three images at a time. Watch this regular DART feature for party details and registration. And it's not too late to order advance copies of American Illustration 25 and American Photography 22 - which will ship in late November.

1985: Untitled, by Vivienne Flesher and Ward Schumaker
American passenger Leon Klinghoffer was killed and thrown overboard the Achille Lauro cruise ship by Palestinian terrorists.

Ward Schumaker is a San Francisco-based illustrator whose work has appeared in over 100 magazines worldwide. He has illustrated twenty books, and is author/illustrator of three for children: "Dance;" "Sing a Song of Circus;" and "In My Garden" (published in both English and Japanese). He has illustrated two limited edition letter-press books for the renown Yolla Bolly Press: "Two Kitchens in Provence," by M.F.K. Fisher; and "Paris, France," by Gertrude Stein.

Mr. Schumaker has received awards from the AIGA, CA Illustration and Design Annuals, Print Magazine, Graphis, American Illustration and The Society of Illustrators. His work has been featured in articles in Communication Arts, Print, Step-by-Step, Portfolio (Japan), and Design Journal (Korea). He received a Federal Design Achievement Award for his work on Unlimited by Design, for the Smithsonian Institution, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York,

Vivienne Flesher has produced work for clients as diverse as The New York Times, HP, Starbucks, KQED-TV, and Shiseido. She has illustrated three children's books and will be publishing a fourth that she has written and photographed. Several of her posters can be found in the permanent collection of the Library of Congress and she recently illustrated the 2005 Love Stamp for the U.S. Postal Service. Besides her commercial work, Ms. Flesher frequently creates for private collectors and has shown work throughout Europe, Asia, and the U.S. A worldwide traveler, she has lived in Manhattan, Tokyo, and Venice; she currently lives in San Francisco.

1986: Oil of Turm, by Henrik Drescher
Memories of life on New York City's Lower East Side.

Henrik Drescher: Notes on my life and work:
Born in Denmark. Grew up in the States.
No art school.
Plenty of travel.
Lived all over the world, most recently in China.
Work grows out of notebook-keeping.
Have published numerous books, most recently, "Hubert the Pudge."
Currently serving as artist-in-residence at the Danish Design School, Copenhagen.

1987: Arms for Hostages by Anita Kunz
The Iran Contra affair puts Ronald Reagan and his administration under scrutiny.

Anita Kunz, born in Canada, has contributed to magazines and worked for design firms, book publishers and advertising agencies around the globe. Clients include Time, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, GQ, The New York Times, the Atlantic Monthly, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, Sony Music, and Random House, among others.

Anita's paintings and sculptures are in the permanent collections at the Library of Congress, the Canadian Archives in Ottawa, the Musée Militaire de France in Paris, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome, and a number of her Time magazine cover paintings are in the permanent collection at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC. Solo shows include the Foreign Press office, New York, 1997 the Creation Gallery, Tokyo, 1998, the Society of Illustrators Museum of American Illustration, and the Library of Congress, Washington DC. She is currently preparing for a solo show to be held in Turin, Italy next year. Among the honors she has received are the 1997 Les Usherwood Lifetime Achievement Award from the Advertising and Design Club of Canada. Anita was recently named "one of the fifty most influential women in Canada" by the National Post newspaper.