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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Adding to the recent Top 10 Golden Age Illustrators is the Top 10 most Beautiful Illustrated Books. With so many books that I do not have access to or known of, it’s certainly incomplete. I’m limiting the list to what I have or have seen. They represent the best among the Golden Age Illustrators and
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Here are my picks for the top 10 Golden Age Book Illustrators: Aubrey Beardsley Arthur Rackham John Tenniel Kay Nielsen William Heath Robinson Jessie M.King Harry Clarke Maxfield Parrish Mabel Lucie Attwell W. W. Denslow Please fell free to add comments or suggestions to the list.
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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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William Heath Robinson (31 May 1872 – 13 September 1944) was an English cartoonist, illustrator and artist, best known for drawings of whimsically elaborate machines to achieve simple objectives. In the UK, the term “Heath Robinson” entered the popular language during the 1914–1918 First World War as a description of any unnecessarily complex and implausible
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Florence Kate Upton (22 February 1873 – 16 October 1922) was an American-born English cartoonist, illustrator and author most famous for creating the Golliwogg character, featured in a series of children’s books. Upton began to sketch out ideas for a children’s book, using “penny wooden” dolls as her models. However, without a central character on
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Margaret Winifred Tarrant (19 August 1888 – 29 July 1959) was an English illustrator, and children’s author, specializing in depictions of fairy-like children and religious subjects. She began her career at the age of 20, and painted and published into the early 1950s. She was known for her children’s books, postcards, calendars, and print reproductions.
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Ernest Howard Shepard OBE, MC (10 December 1879 – 24 March 1976) was an English artist and book illustrator. He is known especially for illustrations of the anthropomorphic animal and soft toy characters in Kenneth Graham’s The Wind in the Willows and A.A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh. Books illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard Hughes, T. – Tom
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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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William Andrew Pogany (August 24, 1882 – July 30, 1955) was a prolific Hungarian illustrator of children’s and other books. His contemporaries include Arthur Rackham, Edmund Dulac, W. Heath Robinson, Margaret Tarrant, Charles Robinson, Anne Anderson, Enerst H. Shepard and N.C. Wyeth. He is best known for his pen and ink drawings of myths and
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