Ernest H. Shepard – English artist and book illustrator, 1879-1976 Although Ernest Howard Shepard is best known as the illustrator of works by A. A. Milne, the 1931 edition of Kenneth Graham’s Wind in the Willows also helped to establish him as one of the foremost illustrators of humorous books for children. Shepard’s mother, the […]
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Ida Rentoul Outhwaite (1888 – 1960), was an Australian illustrator of children’s books. Her work mostly depicted fairies. She is a well known and perhaps the most famous Australian children’s book illustrator. She has a long and successful career and well loved around the world for her fairies illustrations. Ida Rentoul Outhwaite’s first illustration was published
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Arthur Rackham (1867 – 1939) was an English book illustrator. Arthur Rackham is widely regarded as one of the leading illustrators from the ‘Golden Age’ of British book illustration which encompassed the years from 1900 until the start of the First World War. During that period, there was a strong market for high quality illustrated
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Harry Otis Kennedy was a Chicago graphic artist at the turn of the twentieth century. He illustrated Baum’s The Army Alphabet and The Navy Alphabet (both 1900), and also provided pictures for three stories in Baum’s American Fairy Tales (1901). The success of Baum’s Father Goose in 1899 inspired a range of imitations. Kennedy worked
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The Tales of Hoffmann (French: Les contes d’Hoffmann) is an opéra fantastique by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto was written by Jules Barbier, based on three short stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann, who is the protagonist of the story. It was Offenbach’s final work; he died in October 1880, four months before the premiere.
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Howard Pyle was one of the great early American illustrator. In 1900, he founded his own school of art and illustration called the Howard Pyle School of Illustration Art, also know as the “Brandywine School” of illustration. Many of his students are among the greatest American illustrators, including N.C. Wyeth, Maxfield Parrish, Jessie Wilcox Smith,
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Charles James Folkard, British Illustrator – was a prolific children’s book illustrator. During his long career, he did illustrations of many children’s books, some most notable are the Arabian Nights, Lewis Carroll‘s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and the Aesop’s Fables. Arabian Nights, the stories of one thousand and one nights. The stories that never ends
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Maxfield Parrish (July 25, 1870 – March 30, 1966) was an American painter and illustrator active in the first half of the 20th century. He is known for his distinctive saturated hues and idealized neo-classical imagery. His career spanned fifty years and was wildly successful: his painting Daybreak (1922) is the most popular art print of
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Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, (9 June 1888 – 25 June 1960), was an Australian illustrator of children’s books. Her work mostly depicted fairies. Outhwaite’s first illustration was published by New Idea magazine in 1904 when she was just 15 years of age – it accompanied a story written by her older sister, Anne Rattray Rentoul. In
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Newell Convers Wyeth (October 22, 1882 – October 19, 1945), known as N. C. Wyeth, was an American artist and illustrator. He was the pupil of artist Howard Pyle and became one of America’s greatest illustrators. During his lifetime, Wyeth created more than 3,000 paintings and illustrated 112 books, 25 of them for Scribner’s, the
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