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Molly Crabapple. A New York "Victoriana" illustrator (by her own description). Her work is reminiscent of circus or carnival posters. Here in her own words how she became an illustrator.

"I learned to draw in a Parisian bookstore. I now credit my artistic success to a combination of harsh criticism from the proprietor and hours copying "A Tart's Progress." Later, I sketched by way through Morocco and Kurdistan- and once into a Turkish jail."

Back in New York, I got my first illustration job doing covers for Screw Magazine. Since then, I've been creating cheeky Victoriana for places like The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Playgirl while doing burlesque posters in my space time."

Somewhere around this time, I started dancing burlesque in the Lower East Side dive bars. When I first had art shows, it was on their walls. Now, you might see a Molly Crabapple original in Art At Large, Bamboo Lane Gallery, The Coney Island Museum or The Museum of American Illustration. Ive had two solo shows at Jigsaw Gallery, and my two person show is coming up at Perihelion Arts in May." - Molly Crabapple


Gent


Lady


Burlesque


Bubbles


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