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Bessie Pease Gutmann (1876–1960) was an American artist and illustrator most noted for her paintings of putti, infants and young children. During the early 1900s Gutmann was considered one of the better-known magazine and book illustrators in the United States.  Her artwork was featured on 22 magazine covers such as Woman’s Home Companion and McCall’s […]

Charles James Folkard (1878 – 1963) was an English illustrator. He worked as a conjuror before becoming a prolific illustrator of children’s books. In 1911, Folkard created seventy-seven drawings and eight watercolour plates for Carlo Collodi‘s Pinocchio, a volume which remained the definitive edition and in print for decades. The Children’s Shakespeare and Grimm’s Fairy

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1871 – 1945) was an English artist artist known for her paintings, book illustrations and for a number of works in stained glass. In 1909, Ernest Brown, of the Leicester Galleries, commissioned a series of 28 watercolour illustrations to Tennyson‘s Idylls of the King, which Fortescue-Brickdale painted over two years. They were exhibited

Will H. Bradley – Fringilla 1895 William H. Bradley (1868 – 1962) was an American Art Nouveau illustrator and artist. Nicknamed the “Dean of American Designers”, he was the highest paid American artist of the early 20th century. Will. H. Bradley was a prolific artist and designer up until his death at age 94. Will

Millicent Sowerby was born in Northumberland, England, the daughter of designer and illustrator John G. Sowerby. Her style was clearly influenced by the famed Victorian illustrator Kate Greenaway, usually depicting innocent children at play using flat colors and strong outlines. Sowerby was among the earliest women to illustrate Lewis Carroll‘s Alice’s Adventure’s in Wonderland, originally