August, 2007

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ARTISTS IN LOVE, part eleven

Illustration Art

James Montgomery Flagg had an ugly view of beauty. "I have never had any slight interest in homely ladies," he said, "no matter how charming and intelligent they are reputed to be. They do not exist for me." And even if a woman satisfied his standards for beauty, she'd better not nag or be jealous about his many infidelities: [I]f I ran the world.I'd have my FBI corral all the ugly people [along with] all nagging and jealous women,and take them out to Death Valley and drop an atomic bomb on them

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