Aiden Lassell Ripley Illustrations

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A special thanks to Alex Chester for inviting me to co-author an article on Aiden Lassell Ripley's illustration work. This is our second published effort together.   Also to Dan Zimmer of illustration magazine for his encouragement and his beautiful handling of the artwork and editing our writing for this latest issue of Illustration Magazine.



If you've never checked out Illustration magazine it is well worth it.  The artwork is beautifully reproduced and each magazine is loaded with history.  I seem to learn something knew every time I reread the articles.  Then again, anything that combines art and history - I'm hooked.

If you are a fan of Aiden Ripley's artwork, there are many reproductions of Aiden's illustrative work as well as of his better known sporting art.  It's a chapter of Aiden's career that has gone largely undocumented.


Illustration Magazine featuring the cover art of Coles Phillips

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