Often the expression of joy or affection, illustrated letters represent an irrepressible urge to picture language. They are evidence of the writer’s use of words and images to amplify the form and ...

The art of letter writing is not dead ... always wrote on pink notepads," she says) to write letters. Other unexpected ...

Free-spirited scribbled letters trip over each other, and distinctive dashes help direct traffic ... The letters here, from the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art, show that an artist might put ...