Portsmouth's Rock 'n' roll illustrator Pete MacPhee
Bob Curley Newport Life The difference between being a starving artist and a working artist can be as simple as not being excessively haughty about the kind of jobs you take on. That helps explain how I came to own a piece of art by Portsmouth illustrator Pete MacPhee — a T-shirt emblazoned with his logo for the annual RiverFire festival in Wakefield — before ever knowing his name or his work. It makes perfect sense that an artist nicknamed the Swamp Yankee would be both industrious and humble enough to do a design for the Wakefield Village Association for a few hundred bucks and a cut ...