Gretchen Dow Simpson, whose art graced New Yorker covers and Rhode Island highways, died on Friday, April 11. She was 85. Simpson took inspiration from both Pawtucket factories and Block Island ...

It was rejected, but it later ran in The Times with an essay ... portrait that glared from the cover.Credit...Brad Holland/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York In “9½ Weeks,” the erotic ...