Arthur Getz Best known as the most prolific cover artist of The New Yorker magazine  Getz covers appeared on the magazine. In addition to his success as an illustration artist, Getz was a passionate and prolific fine artist, working with a variety of mediums and styles over his lifetime. He painted cityscapes and landscapes, drew...

American Illustrators Gallery, Norman Rockwell, Maxfield Parrish, NC Wyeth  You may contact us by email by clicking here. Please tell us which illustrators interest you most....

Coles Phillips Biography  Girl was the particular hallmark of COLES PHILLIPS (1880-1927 Phillips pictured fashionable young women, using the device of tying the figure into the background by either color, value or pattern. This approach produced an intriguing poster-like effect of great simplicity,...

Andrew Loomis Biography  Loomis are probably the most popular. We've sold 141 copies of Figure Drawing For All It's Worth alone (and we have six more in stock In abridged form from Walter T. Foster Art Books, it's still in print today 55...

The SurLaLune Fairy Tales Site: Table of Contents  A portal to the realm of fairy tale and folklore studies featuring annotated fairy tales with illustrations. Also Visit the SurLaLune Fairy Tales Main Page Great News! The SurLaLune Fairy Tale Illustration Gallery has moved to a bigger and better...

Frank Schoonover Biography  Journal war drawing below in the third issue of Frank E. Schoonover was born in 1877 in New Jersey. It was the perfect time and the perfect place. In 1896, he was accepted to the Drexel Institute in Philadelphia, where...

The Art of Edwin Noble  I discovered the wonderful art of this turn of the century illustrator while perusing the stalls on London's Portobello road. My wife and I purchased three amazing dog prints, each with heavy outline and almost a stained-glass quality. Each had...

McClelland Barclay Biography  I and contributed many posters, illustrations and officer portraits for the Navy before being reported missing in action, in the Pacific theatre, aboard an L. S. T. which was torpedoed. Before the war, Barclay was most noted for his ability...

Richard Felton Outcault Biography  Imagine a publishing magnate, keen to cultural trends and technological advances, who hires an illustrator to create an image that, when published, will reap astounding commercial gains by appealing to an untapped market. In the face of critical dismissal, lawsuits,...

Rudolph Belarski Biography  A master at building suspense through figure, perspective and color, Belarski dazzled the newsstand browser with pictorial headlines of vital action scenes pertaining to the inside story. In doing so, he sold magazines and books to a drama-craving audience, and...

Pruett Carter Biography  Magazine were less concerned with plot than with character. From Carter's start as an illustrator in 1918 until his death, he was one of the few established illustrators who was capable of smooth transitions in the tumultuous women's magazine market....

Robert Fawcett Biography  His remarkable draftsmanship and ability to pour himself into his work, without resorting to the usual hackneyed solutions, resulted in a wealth of detailed and evocative illustrations. His belief that draftsmanship was the answer to everything kept his artwork consistent...

Stevan Dohanos Biography  Post covers he painted during the 1940s and 50s, showing slices of American life. This body of work invites comparison with Norman Rockwell, but this should be resisted; that his characterizations weren't as sympathetic as Rockwell's is missing the point....

Nick Eggenhofer Biography  At the height of his career, NICK EGGENHOFER (1897-1985) was known as the King of the Pulps for his western dry-brush illustrations. No one could touch him for the authenticity and raw honesty of his subjects. As a young immigrant...

Orson Lowell Biography  Gibson and is almost always described in terms of Gibson's work. I actually prefer Lowell to Gibson. He was every bit as facile and his line work was more intricate and interesting. He created textures with a seeming abstraction of...

Eric Pape  There are two pages of drawings, including one from the original art, in First Annual Collection Thanks to Warren Coolidge for providing me with more information about Eric Pape. I've left the original page intact below the next horizontal line,...

Al Parker Biography  He created an idealized reflection of the Baby Boom generation with his series of covers for The Ladies Home Journal in which Mother and Daughter wear matching outfits and enjoy life together. Millions of readers, mostly women, followed his inventive...

Russell Sambrook Biography  K fill in the gap between the age dominated by J. C. Leyendecker and the renaissance of Americana seen through Norman Rockwell's eyes. Like his contemporaries, Sambrook's approach to visual design and sense of stagey humor owe a great deal...

Everett Shinn Biography  York street scenes ranged from park avenue to the Bowery. His early experience as a newspaper artist-reporter gave him great technical facility which he later exercised as an illustrator for many national magazines such as McClure's, Hearsts International, Everybody's and...

Leslie Thrasher Biography  One of their most successful and appealing ideas was the continuity cover and the artist who took the assignment was LESLIE THRASHER (1889-1936 For six years, Thrasher created a cover a week for $1,000 each, depicting the lives of a...

Jon Whitcomb Biography  University and was graduated from Ohio State where he did pictures for the school publications and worked during the summer painting posters for a theater in Cleveland. This was excellent training ground for Whitcomb. Although he had majored in English...

Ellis Augustus Oliver (1872-1937 Philadelphia artist. Part 1 of 3  Philadelphia he participated in official classes of the Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry conducted by Howard Pyle (1853-1911 E.A. Oliver was a member of Pyle's final course there that began in February 1899. Pyle had been teaching illustration...

William Fulton Soare  American illustration before the commercial art marketplace yielded to the new medium of color photography was very rich, despite desperately poor economic conditions. Having plunged from the high life of the Roaring 20's to the depths of the Great Depression,...

Edwin Austin Abbey  Harpers by the time he was 19 and, despite success, recognition and raises, he left to pursue a free-lance career at the age of 22. He returned to Harpers in 1876, at the ripe old age of 24, a wily...

University of Delaware: WORLD OF THE CHILD  The exhibition is on view in the Special Collections Gallery February 17 June 12, 1998. Copyright Statement EARLY WORKS FABLES AND FAIRY TALES BOOKS OF INSTRUCTION PRIMERS POETRY STORIES BEFORE 1850 STORIES AFTER 1850 POP-UPS AND MOVABLES BIBLIOGRAPHY INTRODUCTION Obedient...

F.O.C. Darley, Victorian America's most famous illustrator  You will automatically go there. Welcome to Felix Darley's Web Site; first, some quick choices: Scroll down, or Go to WORD SEARCH Other site updates from Carol (Research Historian July, 2001 Aug. 2002 GO THERE F.O.C. DARLEY'S WEB SITE An...

Harry Anderson Biography  He started college at the University of Illinois in 1925. He took an art course as an easy counterpoint to the math classes and discovered both a talent and a love for drawing. From such simple choices our lives are...

Boris Artzybasheff Biography  How does one describe or categorize Boris Artzybasheff? From his very earliest work (the fleeing rabbit from Verotchka's Tales at left and The Undertaker's Garland centaur at right) in 1922 as a 23 year old immigrant from Russia to his...

The Iconography of Paradise Lost  This website was created to accompany a paper by George Klawitter. The paper, entitled John Martin's Revolution and Grandeur: A New Direction for Milton's Early Illustrators was delivered at the South-Central Renaissance Conference in St. Louis (March 1996) and published...

Dickens Illustrations Page  A discussion and reproductions of Fred Walker's four plates for the Library Edition of Hard Times (1868) Hard Times Harry French A description and reproductions of Harry French’s Plates for the Household Edition of Hard Times (1870) Trabb's Boy Great...

Franklin Booth Biography  See his color work in issue 4 of An artist for the ages, Franklin Booth, born 1874, was a product of his time. Isolated on an Indiana farm and determined to be an artist, he studied what he saw on...

Frank Brangwyn  His father worked as an architect, muralist, and in other arts-related crafts. Frank helped around the studio and continued his own artistic education by copying drawings at what was to become the Victoria and Albert Museum. His abilities attracted the...

Zdenek Burian  I make some factual errors, it's not from lack of effort. Much of the following biographical data is from a short essay by Camille Cazedessus, Jr. in his long running fanzine, ERBdom, issue #68 March 1973. Zdenek Burian (Zdenek is...

Harry Clarke Biography  His father was a craftsman who produced, among other objects d'art, stained glass windows. Most of us know Clarke's work from his drawings which are all too often and all too unfairly compared to Beardsley, but it was as a...

Joseph Clement Coll Biography  Collection and a color cover on ImageS #5 Available NOW (7/4/2003 NEW 20 softcover $40 limited hc w/color plate order from us now 3 postage The Al Williamson Sketchbook was published recently and I was reminded of several things: first...

Dean Cornwell Biography  Cornwell was equally at home with illustrations and murals. Born in 1892, we've seen his cartoon work in Caricature The Wit and Humor of a Nation, a compilation of material from Judge, as early as 1912. In the 20's, his...

Frank Craig Biography  The cover and three color Craig pictures are in issue 4 of and one in ImageS #5 Frank Craig could easily get lost in the host of society illustrators that cropped up at the turn of the century in the...

Percy Crosby Biography  Crosby without discussing Skippy, his most famous creation. Crosby was born in 1890 or 91 in Richmond Hill, Long Island, New York. Skippy came along in 1923 as a full-page feature in the original Life. Between the two events, Crosby...

Harvey Dunn Biography  Dakota prairies where he lived on his parents homestead until he was 17. He was a large boy who was capable of doing a man's job by the age of 14. It's a wonder that he had time for schooling,...

Virgil Finlay Biography  He was a star athlete in high school who went home after school and wrote poetry and drew pictures. Very little of his poetry ever saw print, but upwards to 2800 drawings and paintings, most printed on cheap pulp paper,...

Sir William Russell Flint Biography  Flint picture in the third issue of The Vadeboncoeur Collection of See early 1905 bw work in We throw the term favorite around a lot, maybe even a little too much. But when we say that Sir William Russell Flint...

Warwick Goble Biography  Pennell for contemporaries. He was raised in London, went to The City of London School (just five years ahead of Rackham) and attended the Westminster School School of Art. He worked for a printer that did chromolithography and contributed to...

Frank Godwin Biography  Godwin was the son of the city editor of The Washington Star. Self-taught, he began his career as an apprentice on that newspaper. A stint at the Art Students League brought him in contact with James Montgomery Flagg and, by...

Milt Gross Biography  Gross began his first comic strip, Phool Phan Phables, at the age of 20. It was for the New York Journal and featured a rabid sports fan named George Phan. Milt had been hanging around newspaper in search of cartooning...

John Held Jr. Biography  Few artists define an age as thoroughly as John Held Jr. defines the Roaring Twenties. Born in 1889, he was the right age at the right time with an outlook and sense of humor that shaped as well as recorded...

Burne Hogarth Biography  By the time he left the strip in 1945, he had evolved the art past the prevalent commercial illustrative styles of Alex Raymond and Foster, and the moody noir of Caniff and Sickles. It would take comic books several decades...

Albert Hurter Biography  Hurter beyond his work and the anecdotal remembrances of those who worked with him at Disney and Barre-Bowers. Thanks to Mr. Canemaker, we have a very real biography of the man behind Walt Disney's most memorable animated films. Born in...

Arthur I. Keller Biography  Keller piece in issue four of Arthur Ignatius Keller was born in 1866 (or 67 both dates appear in the reference material) to a generation between Howard Pyle and his pupils. His father was an engraver and encouraged Keller to...

Heinrich Kley Biography  Announcing a new magazine Issue #1 has 28 Kley illustrations 12 in color! There are two color Kley pictures in the third issue of Three Kley drawings, including one from the original art, are in First Annual Collection I really...

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Bernie Krigstein Biography  The first half of a new book on Krigstein is due out this Spring from Fantagraphics. Written by Greg Sadowski, it will feature the first portion of his life and career up to and including his EC work. Bud Plant...

Dorothy Lathrop Biography  One of the most influential and important illustrators of children's books in the thirties and forties, she began her career in 1918. At that time she was a 27 year old teacher of art in Albany. Arguably her most famous...

Virgil Partch Biography  I rather prided myself in my anatomical studies while in school. Such academicians as Rico LeBrun smiled on me and patted my hair for my ability at putting the old muscles and bones together. His spaghetti-limbed cartoon characters don't seem...

George Petty  Petty is most famous for his pin-up drawings that appeared in Esquire magazine in the 1930's and the covers for many Ice Capades programs. There is a recent, excellent book on him, Petty The Classic Pin-Up Art of George Petty,...

Willy Pogany Biography Part 1  Pogany was gifted with myriad styles from which he selected the appropriate (or created a new) one for each book he illustrated. And he illustrated literally a hundred or more. Born in Hungary in 1882, he came to American in...

 Gillam brothers and others also worked for Puck 42;Le Rire*France, 1893-c.1914 CARAN D'ACHE Charles HUARD Charles LÉANDRE Flix-Edouard VALLOTTON 42 42 42; Related links (Additional links may also be found on a journal's index page Caricatures from the French penny...

THE CAMELOT PROJECT: MENU OF ARTISTS  How befell this woeful sight 1855) How Merlin Was Outwitted by the Lady Viviana (1855) How Sir Thomas Thumb Was Carried to Fairy Land (1855) How Tom Thumb Became Frolicsome and Tricksy (1855) How the Wizard Merlin Came to the...

Women Children's Book Illustrators--Cicely Mary Barker  Barker have enjoyed an enduring popularity with adults and children alike. Her pictures of nostalgic children and floral sprites are charmingly delicate in detail and exhibit her Christian morality and understanding of nature. Childhood Barker was born on 28 June,...

Women Children's Book Illustrators--Ida Rentoul Outhwaite  Described as being just as petite and dainty as her fairies, Ida Rentoul Outhwaite was the first Australian children’s book illustrator to achieve world fame. She loved to paint fairies that often played with the native kangaroos, koalas and kookaburras...

The Art of Edwin Noble  I discovered the wonderful art of this turn of the century illustrator while perusing the stalls on London's Portobello road. My wife and I purchased three amazing dog prints, each with heavy outline and almost a stained-glass quality. Each had...

LeConte Stewart Digital Art Gallery  This web site is dedicated to the art work of LeConte Stewart. ART Person We are looking to buy works by Leconte Stewart. Listed Art Forsale If you are looking to sell or list art by LeConte Stewart, please email...

Women Children's Book Illustrators--Wanda Gag, 1893-1946  Cinderella but it was her persistence, sacrifices, hard work and planning that can be attributed to her successes. Living through two world wars and the depression, this free spirit always found a way to make ends meet, keep her family...

Women Children's Book Illustrators--Margaret W. Tarrant (1888-1959)  English illustrator that created posters, greeting cards, calendars, postcards and books for fifty years. She was most popular during the 1920’s and 1930’s for her romantic depiction of children, fairies and animals. Childhood Education Tarrant was born in Battersea, a...

Constantin Alajalov Biography  Revolution scuttled his university education, until 25 when he had his first New Yorker cover published, CONSTANTIN ALAJLOV (1900-1987) whirled through an array of jobs in Russia, Persia, Turkey New York, ranging from sign painter to portrait painter to court...

Charles Edward Chambers Biography  Institute and later at the Art Student League in New York with George Bridgman. His illustrations were extremely competent, marked by subtlety of value and color. He learned early to adapt his method of painting for the best possible reproduction...

Edward Penfield Biography  We are a bit tired of the very serious nowadays, and a little frivolity is refreshing; and yet frivolity to be successful must be most thoroughly studied So wrote EDWARD PENFIELD (1866-1925) near the outset of his highly influential career...

Kay Nielsen Biography  Nielsen featuring five pen drawings from his unpublished The Book of Death series done in 1911 First Annual Collection and there's a rare color piece in ImageS #5 Kay (pronounced kigh) Nielsen is considered one of a triumvirate of classic...

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