Elliott Banfield Print Portfolio

Science of Mind

Editorial illustration published in the NYT Book Review, c.1982.

Why Democrats Are Anti-Anti-Crime

Cover, Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2021. Cover article by William Voegeli deals with rising crime rate in US cities and dilemma of Dems, who are soft on crime.

African Apetite

Drawing from Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2021; illustrating Christopher Caldwell essay on African migration to Italy

The Unbroken Thread

Drawing from Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2021 illustrating John Daniel Davidson review of Sorab Ahmari book, The Unbroken Thread.

Patrick J. Garrity, RIP

Portrait of the scholar Patrick J. Garrity, from Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2021,

The German Revolution, Novermber 2018

Illustration from the Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2018. Illustration from Daniel Johnson review of Robert Gerwarth history of the German Revolution.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Caricature of the Supreme Court Justice from the Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2021. Caricature appears review by Randy E. Barnet.

The Mind-Forged Manacles of Man

Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2021: illustration from Eric Kaufmann review of Isabel Wilkerson book, "Caste".

The Great Seal of Progressivism

Illustration of Myron Magnet's review of Ronald Pestritto book, The Making of the Administrative State. From the Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2021.

Meritocracy

Illustration from the Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2021, Charles Murray review of Michael J. Sandel book, the Tyranny of Merit.

God of the Woke

Illustration from the review of Joshua Mitchell book, American Awakening: Identity Politics and Other Afflictions of Our Time. Review by Peter C. Myers. Published in the Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2021.

John C. Calhoun

Faux wood engraved portrait of the American statesman, John C. Calhoun. Published in the Summer 2021 issue of the Claremont Review of Books, illustration accompanies Forrest Nabors' review of Calhoun: American Heretic, by Robert Elder.

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Portrait of psychologist Henry James

Illustration accompanying essay by Algis Valiunas, published in the Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2021.

Antifa Boys Contempating the Ruin of Portland

Illustration from the Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2021.

Criminal Negligence

Illustration from the Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2021. Illustration accompanied William Vogeli's essay on the rise of violent crime in America during the period after Joe Biden's election, and the dilemma of liberals dedicated to defense of liberal domestic policies.

The Masking of America

Illustration from the Summer 2021 issue of the Claremont Review of Books. Illustration of an essay by Jeffrey H. Anderson.

Harry Jaffa

Portrait of the Scholar, presented as an illustration of a memorial essay by Glen Elmers, published in the Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2021

Freedom of Speech

Illustration (from the Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2021) of Bradley C. S. Watson's review of Robert Putnam's book, Upswing. The drawing, by Elliott Banfield, is based on Norman Rockwell's painting of the same title, published in 1943. Banfield's drawing differs from the Rockwell painting in a number of details.

Financial Bubble

Drawing published in the Claremont Review of Books (2009?)

Big Tech and the Futrure of Self Government

Cover art for the Claremont Review of Books, Spring 2021

Marriage a la Mode

Drawing published in the Claremont Review of Books, Spring 2021, as illustration for Harvey Mansfield's review of The Rolling Revolution, by Scott Yenor. The drawing was inspired by a famous anti-feminist etching by George Cruikshank, c.1860.