The Daily Heller: Bascove Unbuilds Bridges (and Other Things) With Collage I met the artist Bascove over 40 years ago when she began doing her signature brand of woodblock editorial illustrations for me at The New York Times OpEd page (one of my favorite commissions included three illustrated initial cap letters that were so bold yet simple they lit up the page). Her political and literary work is in the permanent collection of the Norman Rockwell Museum. She was best known, however, for the numerous book jackets and covers that gave novels ( like this) a searing vitality. Not content to i...