Woody Guthrie

 

" This land is your land and this land is my land

From California to the New York island

From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters

This land was made for you and me  "

Here's a little tribute to the author of America's 

 alternative national anthem, Woody Guthrie,

born in Okemah, Oklahoma in 1912.

This is part of an ongoing project, where I 

will attempt to draw a picture on every 

map in an old Rand McNally atlas.

Stay tuned for more!

Grizzly Bear

 

With all due respect to Kevin Costner, here’s the real star of Yellowstone.

Prints of this portrait are available here, in my Etsy shop! 

Coal Miner

 

“Oh come all you young fellers, so young and so fine, seek not your fortune in a dark dreary mine.” This tribute to coal miners was inspired by Johnny Cash’s haunting rendition of Dark as a Dungeon. These men risked life and limb to bring energy out of the earth, and into our homes.

James Madison

 

This portrait of James Madison appears in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal. This story looks at the debate our founders had about how much federal representation individual states should have. Madison argued that representation should be proportionate to the population of each state, which would have been more reflective of a true democracy. Unfortunately, the author of the Constitution lost this debate. Regardless of enormous disparities in population, each state has two senators. Thanks to art director, Alice Cheung, for this fascinating assignment!

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(Map: David Rumsey Historical Map Collection. Convention scene: Alamy Stock)

Self Portrait

 

Hey, who is this guy? I haven’t drawn a self-portrait in many years, but at the request of my agent, I drew this one for a group promotion. It was surprisingly fun to draw.

You can check out a full gallery of my map portraits here!

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Ben Franklin

I drew this piece for a dear friend who recently retired from teaching social studies. As a history buff, she always admired this founding father. And why not? To name a few accomplishments, he served as a statesman, inventor, scientist, publisher, printer, and abolitionist, as well as the first US Postmaster General. Of all the founders, he was one of the biggest believers in democracy.

Signed prints of this piece are available here, in my Etsy shop.

Angela Davis

 

Whenever I contemplate a new portrait to on a map, I always ask myself, "who can hold that space?". In this case, I chose a woman whose courageous activism and intellectual contributions to education could fill the state of California.  

Signed prints of this portrait are available here, in my Etsy shop.

 10% of each print sale will be donated to Black Lives Matter.