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Irwin Mitchell has been instructed by a group of former Halliwells partners to fight claims that they are liable to repay drawings paid out in the months leading up to firm’s collapse. The firm has been appointed by 14 former fixed-share partners at Halliwells to fight claims by Halliwells’ administrator BDO that they should repay some drawings paid out in the months running up to the firm’s collapse into insolvency on 20 July 2010.

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A number of former Halliwells partners have been sent letters by the firm’s administrators trying to claw back drawings paid out in the months running up to the firm’s collapse. Administrators BDO contacted 211 former fixed-share and equity partners last month (23 June), with only 77 of these receiving letters stating that they do not face further action.

Native from Spain, Juan Francisco Casas uses only ballpoint pens to create his photo realistic portraits. Formerly a traditional painter, Juan began the drawings in 2005 based on photographs of nights out with his friends. Here are his great drawings:

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Many of us grew up with the much beloved Little House on the Prairie book by Laura Ingalls WIlder. The cover art used starting in the 1950s and continuing up to present day, a soft-pencil drawing of the Ingalls family in a covered wagon by illustrator Garth Williams will be part of Heritage Auctions’ February 11 Signature(R) Illustration Art Auction in Beverly Hills. This piece is expected to bring in over $8,000 and joins 99 other Little House drawings, spread across 30 lots, in the auction.

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It may be goodbye to Norma Jean, but the candle in the wind burns on — and on and on — for Marilyn Monroe. If it’s not enough that the house she died in is being marketed with that as one of its selling features, now there’s also a “Color Me Marilyn” coloring book that will undoubtedly appeal to the coffee tables of Monroe’s ever-lasting following.

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Attention, fans of the the graphic arts! Two new graphic arts galleries introduce visitors to Library of Congress pictorial collections. The Swann Gallery features caricatures, political cartoons, comics, animation art, graphic novels and illustrations. The Herblock Gallery celebrates the work of editorial cartoonist Herbert L. Block–better known as “Herblock”–with an ongoing display of 10 original drawings, to change every six months. [View the Swann and Herblock galleries in myLOC: http://myloc.gov/Exhibitions/Pages/Default.aspx]

Today, we feature a Russell Patterson illustration from the Swann Collection of Caricature and Cartoon, “Where There’s Smoke There’s Fire,” of a fashionably dressed 1920s-era flapper standing with one hand on her hip and a cigarette in the other hand. A stream of smoke from the cigarette forms a curving, twisting, decorative line. So, be a dear, and pass on the word to your chums that there is something new to see during a visit to the Library of Congress.

On May 14, 1862, Civil War era photographer James F. Gibson took this photograph of a group of “contrabands” in Cumberland Landing, Virginia. “Contrabands” was the term for former slaves who had come over to Union lines. The photograph is one from the main eastern theater of the Civil War, the Peninsular Campaign, of May-August 1862. Although nothing else is known of the story of this group of people–where they came from or what happened to them after the photograph was shot–the photograph is an indication of our strong Civil War holdings. In addition to photographs, recently digitized eyewitness drawings from the Civil War add dimension to our vision of the conflict.

The Civil War Drawings have been recently scanned, so that it is now possible to view online the more than 1,600 eye-witness sketches made during the U.S. Civil War. We feature a March 1864 Alfred Waud drawing of a snowball battle near Dalton, Georgia. The drawing portrays a grand mock battle between several divisions of Confederate soldiers. While Mathew Brady’s photographers famously captured the aftermath of Civil War battles such as Antietam and Gettysburg, it was intrepid sketch artists such as Waud who put themselves in harm’s way to capture troop engagements as they happened — even if, as in this case, the greatest danger was being beaned by a snowball!

The Library of Congress continues to celebrate Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Herb Block with a look at his remarkable seventy-two-year career. The Herblock! exhibition includes eighty-two original cartoon drawings, primarily selected from the Library’s extensive Herbert L. Block Collection.

Noon, Wednesday, January 13 – “Cold War”
Noon, Wednesday, January 20 – “McCarthy/McCarthyism”
Noon, Wednesday, January 27 – “1960s and 1970s”
Herblock! exhibition, 2nd Floor, South Gallery, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress

Everything’s coming up Herblock!

Opening on the hundredth birthday of the four-time Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, the exhibition displays 82 of Herbert Block’s drawings. The drawings span a 72-year career during which Block influenced public opinion and jarred the lives of many elected officials.

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The Prints and Photographs Division houses more than 2,500 Japanese woodblock prints and drawings, dating from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, by such artists as Hiroshige, Kuniyoshi, Sadahide, and Yoshiiku. They have been online for some time, but searching them was challenging because of the lack of description. All images now have titles (Japanese and English translation) and subjects, enhancing searching and identification of these woodblock prints and drawings.

Extra! Extra! Spiderman sparks unabated interest at the Library of Congress!

The word has been out for a while, so it may come as no surprise to learn that the Library acquired 24 pages of original 1962 drawings from “Amazing Fantasy #15,” which marked the first time the world’s most famous web-slinger, Spider-Man, would appear in print anywhere. The Spider-Man origin story in “Amazing Fantasy” was created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko; the pages are Ditko originals, complete with pencil erasures and white-out opaquing fluid.

Through unique drawings and other archival materials, Sara W. Duke, Curator of Popular & Applied Graphic Art, tells the story of Daniel Jenks, one of thousands of educated, literate, middle-class men who migrated west during the 1859 gold rush in Colorado. The Prints & Photographs Divison has twenty of Jenks’s drawings. The Webcast and supplementary materials are presented as part of the Library of Congress “Journeys and Crossings” series.

In this richly illustrated compendium of the wide variety of buildings and spaces devoted to the urban marketplace, author Helen Tangires includes more than 800 historical and contemporary photographs, architectural drawings, maps, and posters.

Full citation: Helen Tangires. Public Markets: A Norton/Library of Congress Visual Sourcebook. New York: W.W. Norton, 2008.

Descriptions for the 5,000 original drawings in the Master Drawings Collection can now be searched in the online catalog. The collection represents drawings in diverse styles and media, primarily dating between 1830 and 1930. Most are by American artist Joseph Pennell, with notable drawings by James McNeil Whistler (1834-1903), Rockwell Kent, Jean Francois Millet, and many other artists. Some records are accompanied by digital images.

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