Elizabeth Williams (artist)
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File:Elizabeth Williams at the Dominique Strauss-Khan court hearing.jpg
Courtroom artist Elizabeth Williams sketching Dominique Strauss-Kahn at his New York court hearing on July 1, 2011
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Education | Washington University in St. Louis Parsons The New School for Design Syracuse University Otis Art Institute |
Alma mater | Parsons The New School for Design |
Occupation | Illustrator Author |
Known for | Courtroom artist |
Elizabeth Williams is a New York City-based illustrator, courtroom artist and author.[1] She has covered many high profile court cases such as those of John DeLorean, Martha Stewart, John Gotti, Michael Milken, Bernard Madoff, Dominique Strauss-Khan, and the Times Square Bomber.[2][3] Williams is the author with true crime writer Sue Russell of The Illustrated Courtroom: 50 Years of Court Art, a history of American courtroom sketch artistry published by CUNY Journalism Press in 2014.[4][5]
Career
Williams’ career began in Hollywood, California, where she was a fashion illustrator for designers such as Michael Travis and in the atelier of Bob Mackie.[1][6] Following the suggestion of a teacher she decided to pursue the possible career as a court artist. While working as a fashion illustrator she went to an art show in San Diego, California, where she saw the courtroom art of well-known sketch artist Bill Robles.[1][7] After a meeting with Robles, she began to work as a courtroom artist.[6] The first court case she covered was the San Bernardino, California hearing of a child molester in 1980.[2][8]
After Williams met Robles at a trial in Los Angeles, California, that they were both covering and he began to mentor her.[9] The first high profile trial she covered was the 1984 drug trafficking trial of John DeLorean for Los Angeles-based channel KABC-TV.[2] Later that year Williams returned to her native New York and began working as a courtroom artist in New York City.[9] While in New York City, Williams gained a reputation for reporting on white-collar crime.[1] She covered the trials inside traders Ivan Boesky, Michael Milken, Raj Rajaratnam, and Martha Stewart.[1] Williams also reported on the trials of financial figures such as Bernard Madoff, Bernard Ebbers, and Dominique Strauss-Khan.[3][10] Non-financial trials reported on by Williams include those of John Gotti, Times Square Bomber, terrorist Abu Anas al Libi, and Russian spy Anna Chapman.[2][4]
In 2012, 61 of Williams’ sketches depicting the Sean Bell trial were acquired by the Lloyd Sealy Library at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.[11]
Along with crime writer Sue Russell, Williams authored The Illustrated Courtroom: 50 Years of Court Art, which was published in 2014 by CUNY Journalism Press. The book is a retrospective of American courtroom sketch art of high-profile trials produced from 1964-2014 and contains work from artists Howard Brodie, Aggie Kenny, Bill Robles, Richard Tomlinson, and Williams.[4]
Education and style
Williams studied art at Washington University in St. Louis, the Parsons The New School for Design, Syracuse University and the Otis Art Institute.[9] Much of her artwork is created with brush pens, colored pencils, oil pastel and oil paint sticks.[2]
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