Pearson & Bellows

1.  Luke Pearson is a contemporary illustrator from the UK. 
Here's a page from his book Everything We Miss (Nobrow press).

2. George Bellows. American realist "Ashcan School" painter (1882-1925).

Best known for his depictions of boxers and big city life. 

                                        

                                          Fisherman's Family (1923) just blows me away!

And look at this shot of New York. New York (1911). It has so much going on, it's like it tells a story like old history paintings do.  I am there, looking out a window of a ten-story building...