Arts: Illustration: Historic

Arts: Illustration: Historic_Illustrators

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Abbey, Edwin Austin (1852-1911)
An illustrated biography. Includes a portrait of Abbey by John Singer Sargent.

Alajalov, Constantin (1900-1987)
Biography.

American Illustrators Gallery
Features image gallery of artists from the "Golden Age of Illustration".

Anderson, Anne - (1874-194?)
Illustrated biography.

Anderson, Harry (1906-1996)
An illustrated biography.

The Art of Edwin Noble
Member of the Royal Academy, Mr. Noble primarily worked as an animal artist and children's illustrator.

Artzybasheff, Boris (1899-1965)
An illustrated biography.

Attwell, Mabel Lucie (1879-1964)
Illustrated biography.

Barclay, McClelland (1891-1943
Biography. One magazine cover.

Barker, Cicely Mary (1895-1973)
Illustrated biography.

Barney, Maginel Wright Enright (1881-1966)
Frank Lloyd Wright's sister. Illustrated biography.

Bauer, John (1882-1917)
An illustrated biography.

Belarski, Rudolph (1900-1983)
Biography. One illustration.

Bennett, Harriet
Active: 1877-1897. Biographical note, and two illustrations.

Bessie Collins Pease Gutmann (1876-1960)
An illustrated biography.

Bewick, Thomas (1753-1828)
Notes on the life of the man who founded the British School of wood engraving.

Booth, Franklin (1874-1948)
An illustrated biography.

Brangwyn, Frank (1867-1956)
An illustrated essay.

Brundage, Frances (1854-1937)
An illustrated biography.

Burd, Clara Miller
Active: 1900-1930s. Illustrated biography.

Burian, Zdenek (1905-1981)
An illustrated biography

Burton, Virginia Lee (1909-1968)
An illustrated biography.

The Camelot Project: Artists
Artists who have illustrated versions of the Arthurian legends, with their work.

Campbell, Eleanor (1894-1986)
Brief biography with several illustrations.

Carigiet, Alois (1902 - 1985)
Carigiet was the first illustrator to win the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration. This site is dedicated to him.

Carter, Pruett (1891-1955)
Biography. One story illustration.

Chambers, Charles Edward (1883-1941)
Biography.

Clark, Walter Appleton (1876-1906)
An illustrated biography.

Clarke, Harry (1889-1931)
An illustrated biography.

Coll, Joseph Clement (1881-1921)
An illustrated biography of Joseph Clement Coll - a master of pen & ink.

Cooney, Barbara (1917-2000)
An illustrated biography.

Cornwell, Dean
Born 1892. An illustrated essay.

Craig, Frank (1874-1918)
An illustrated biography of Frank Craig, British artist of the early twentieth century who painted images for Kipling, Robert W. Chambers and others.

Darley, Felix Octavius Carr (1821-1888)
Information about F.O.C. Darley, and his historical significance to the United States.

Dickens' Illustrations
Biographical notes on the illustrators of Dickens' work.

Dohanos, Stevan (1907-1994)
Biography.

Dunn, Harvey (1884-1952)
An illustrated biography.

Eggenhofer, Nick (1897-1985)
Biography.

Elvgren, Gil (1914-1980)
Biographical information and images for pin-up and glamour artist whose career began in the 1930's.

Fawcett, Robert (1903-1967)
Biography. One story illustration.

Finlay, Virgil (1914-1971)
An illustrated biography.

Flint, Sir William Russell (1880 - 1970)
An illustrated biography.

Gág, Wanda Hazel (1893-1946)
Illustrated biography.

Getz, Arthur (1913-1996)
The most prolific cover artist of the New Yorker magazine, producing 213 covers between 1938 and 1988.

Goble, Warwick (1862-1943)
An illustrated essay.

Godwin, Frank (1889-1959)
An illustrated biography.

Green, Elizabeth Shippen (1871-1954)
Illustrated biography.

Gross, Milt (1895-1953)
An illustrated biography.

Gruau, Rene
History and graphic works, provided in French and English.

Hallock, Ruth Mary
Active 1903-1936. Biographical note, and several illustrations.

Held Jr., John (1889-1958)
An illustrated biography of John Held Jr., the delineator of flappers and sheiks and the Roaring Twenties.

Hogarth, Burne (1911-1996)
An illustrated biography.

Hurter, Albert (1883-1942)
An illustrated biography.

The Iconography of Milton's ''Paradise Lost''
Illustrations by: Gustav Doré, John Martin, John B. Medina, Benard Lens. Also: Burney, Westall, Hayman, and Blake.

Illustrations to ''Our Mutual Friend''
All 40 illustrations by Marcus Stone. Site also contains full text, and original London reviews.

Jones, Elizabeth Orton (b. 1910)
An illustrated biography.

Keller, Arthur I. (1866-1924)
An illustrated biography.

King, Jessie Marion (1875-1949)
Illustrated biography.

Kley, Heinrich (1863-1945)
Illustrated biography.

Krigstein, Bernie
Born 1919. An illustrated biography.

Le Mair, Henriette Willebeek (1889-1966)
Illustrated biography.

LeConte Stewart Digital Art Gallery
Painter of western landscapes in his native state of Utah.

Lenski, Lois (1893-1974)
Illustrated biography.

Leyendecker, Joseph Christian (1874-1951)
An illustrated biography.

Loomis, Andrew (1892 - 1959)
An illustrated biography of Andrew Loomis, known for his art instruction books.

Lowell, Orson (1871-1956)
An illustrated biography.

Martin, Sarah Catherine (1768-1826)
Old Mother Hubbard illustrator.

Maturo, Joseph A.
Biographical information on Joseph A. Maturo, artist and illustrator of magazine stories and 20th Century Fox movie posters.

Milt Gross - Animation Art
2 illustrations from video. Sales.

Nielsen, Kay (1886-1957)
Brief illustrated biography with online references and links.

Noble, Edwin
Containing biographic and bibliographic information on Edwardian animal painter/book illustrator, including scans of his illustrations in the public domain.

Oliver, Ellis Augustus (1873-1937)
Page by his grandson: biography, illustrations.

O'Neill, Rose (1874-1944)
Illustrated biography.

Outcault, Richard Felton (1863-1928)
Biography.

Outhwaite, Ida Rentoul (1888-1960)
An illustrated biography.

Pape, Eric (1870-1938)
An illustrated biography, including a 1910 newspaper article.

Parker, Al (1906-1985)
Biography.

Partch, Virgil (1916-1984)
An illustrated biography of VIP, the darkly humorous creator of Big George and other cartoons for True, Colliers, Look, and for his own original compilations.

Peck, Clara Elsene (born 1883)
Illustrated biographical notes.

Percy Crosby (1890-1964)
An illustrated biography, and book sales.

Petty, George (1894-1975)
An illustrated biography.

Phillips, Coles
An illustrated biography of the creator of the Phillips' girls, and of the fadeaway technique.

Pogany, Vilmos Andreas (William Andrew, or Willy) (1882-1955)
An illustrated biography.

Sambrook, Russell
Biography. One illustration.

Schoonover, Frank (1877-1972)
An illustrated biography.

Sewell, Helen Moore (1896-1957)
An illustrated biography.

Soare, William Fulton (1896-1940)
Page by his son. Biography, photos, many illustrations.

Sowerby, Amy Millicent (1878-1967)
Illustrated biography.

Storer, Florence Edith
Active 1909-1914. Biographical note, and several illustrations.

SurLaLune Fairy Tale Illustration Gallery
Classic fairy tale illustrations by Arthur Rackham, George Cruikshank, Jessie Willcox Smith, Edmund Dulac, Gustave Dore, Walter Crane, Kay Nielsen and many others.

Tarrant, Margaret Winifred (1888-1959)
Illustrated biography.

Tudor, Tasha (b.1915)
An illustrated biography.

Tusche, Tone And Stone: 19th Century News
Illustrated discussion of 19th and early 20th century periodicals, and the artists whose work they published.

Victorian Illustrators
19th century illustration by Millais, Leighton, William Morris and an extensive list of other British artists.

Vierge, Daniel (1851-1904)
Illustrated biography. Provides an explanation of the changes from wood engraving to photo engraving in illustration and the main influence of Vierge in this development.

Whitcomb, Jon (1906-1988)
Biography.

Women Children's Book Illustrators
Women illustrators from the Victorian period up to World War II, a project by Denise Ortakales.

World of the Child
Exhibition at the University of Delaware Library. 200 years of illustrated books, the ealiest of which were not aimed exclusively at children.

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