William Coulter is an illustrator from an age when newspapers flourished, sometimes three or four per city (with morning and afternoon editions). His drawings are rendered in a loving and caring manner, using varying mixes of watercolor, ink, colored pencil, and magic marker, and they were syndicated in over fifty newspapers nationwide, with more than 2,250 contributions to the Washington Post alone.

His clients also included the American Federation of Teachers, Burson-Marsteller Advertising, Cricket Magazine, and dozens of American labor unions. He has had several solo exhibitions, and taught illustration, drawing, and photography at The Art League in Alexandria, VA; The Smithsonian Museum; and the Corcoran Art School in Washington, DC. 

Most of his drawings regrettably ended up as birdcage liners or fish wrappers, but some were good enough in the artist’s eyes to be reprised years later as limited edition giclée prints, so that you may own and cherish artifacts from a golden age of illustrative and journalistic autonomy.