Brad holland

Largely self-taught, Brad Holland (b.1943) is one of the most prominent illustrators, and one of the most copied, in the industry today. His career really began in 1960 when he worked for Hallmark as a greeting card artist. By the late 60's he moved to New York without any job prospects and pounded the pavements looking for work, which he found at magazines like Avant-Garde, Playboy, Time and Newsweek as well as several 'underground' publications. In 1972, Jean-Claude Suares, art director of…

Brad Holland (born 1943) is a selftaught artist whose work has appeared in Time, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Playboy, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, and many other national and international publications. Paintings by the artist have been exhibited in museums around the world, including onema

Brad Holland

Illustrations by Brad Holland

It’s taken me forever, but I’ve finally got around to launching a new website: bradholland.net. Unlike the old one, which...

Black and White drawings

BRAD HOLLAND

Last week, an exhibition of my paintings opened at the Nuages Gallery in Milan: 35 pictures, plus the dozen I did for The Happy Prince last year, on loan...

It was 1988. I was fresh out of Art Center and testing my design wings on a small, non-profit weekly when I first got up the nerve to call Brad Holland to see if he’d do an assignment for me.…

The first page of each issue of The Baffler features a drawing by the artist previewing the issue's theme. These drawings are titled Lock and Keys...