Photo: Jefferson Siegel
Elizabeth Williams
E-mail contact: ew@elizabethwilliamstudio.com
Elizabeth Williams' artwork has been published on the cover of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The New York Post and Newsday.
Her work has also been published in the Newsweek, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times and numerous other publications.
She has worked for many news organizations including CBS, NBC and ABC News, Associated Press, CNBC and Bloomberg News, drawing trials of the famous and infamous including: The Times Square Bomber, Bernard Madoff, Martha Stewart, John Gotti, Robert Chambers and John DeLorean.
Recently John Jay School of Criminal Justice acquired the entire folio of her Sean Bell trial drawings into their collection. (YouTube: Inside the Sean Bell Trial)
She is also the co-author of The Illustrated Courtroom: 50 Years of Court Art to be published by CUNY Journalism Press. This unique book will cover a range of the biggest courtroom dramas over the last half-century, with illustrations and insights by five award-winning courtroom illustrators.
The Illustrated Courtroom: 50 Years of Court Art
book to be published early 2014
- CUNY J-Press Will Publish Book of Courtroom Illustrations
- Web site for The Illustrated Courtroom
- The Illustrated Courtroom blog
- Follow The Illustrated Courtroom on Facebook
Links to articles about Williams' work:
- Reporting by Drawing, a profile of Elizabeth Williams in Our Town Downtown
- Sketch Artist Covered Famed Cases, a profile of Elizabeth Williams in the Wall Street Journal's live online coverage of the Sandusky hearings (see the 8:21 a.m. update).
- New York Institute of Photography — Elizabeth Williams: The Eye of the Sketch Artist
- Artist captures the sketchiest character of all: Bernie Madoff (Downtown Express, July 3-9, 2009)
YouTube videos:
- An interview with Elizabeth Williams at the Dominique Strauss-Khan hearings
- The Rajaratnam Insider Trading Trial Illustrated
- Courtroom art of Bernard Madoff and other white-collar criminals