Art: "All is Vanity," 1892
Artist C. Allan Gilbert illustrated works by H.G. Wells and Edith Wharton, dabbled in early animated films and worked as a camofleur during the first World War, painting camoflauge on ships in the U.S. fleet, but he is best known for this enduring image whose title comes from Ecclesiastes: "For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again."
