In addition to his ministerial work, Ben was an accomplished artist focusing on pen-and-ink sketches and paintings of classic Vermont scenes and buildings.

"I am sick of the art-adoration that prevails among cultured people, more in our time than in any other: that art silliness which condones almost any moral or intellectual failing on the artist’s part ...

S. For two years no one but his friend and fellow editor, Elwyn Brooks (“Andy”) White, could see anv merit in the thousands of drawings with which Thurber covered all the loose stationery in ...

Thurber assembled the piece several years before ... and a model for the integration of verbal and visual art - but the theme is that humankind is doomed to periodic and violent disruption succeed ...