Illustrator
Fact Sheet
In an initial study of an illustrator's
work, it may be useful to consider the following:
Personal Data
Primary Techniques Used
Basic Qualities of Work
Major Works Illustrated
Minor Works Illustrated
Primary Sources of Information
About this Person and his/her Work.
Of course, the most important
aspect of this study is to examine the oldest, rarest, most unusal, or
best exemplars of this person's work available to you as well as more
contemporary reproductions of that work.
It might prove useful to examine
several of the books in the Illustration
bibliography website.
List
of Illustrators
Boris
Artzybasheff (1899 -1965)
Ingri
and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire (1904-1980, 1898-1986)
Thomas
Bewick (1753-1828)
William
Blake (1757-1827 )
Louis
Boutet de Monvel (1850-1913)
Leslie Brooke (1862-1940)
Randolph
Caldecott (1846-1901)
Palmer
Cox (1840-1924)
Walter
Crane (1845-1915)
Another
walter Crane site
George
Cruikshank (1792-1878)
Richard
Doyle (1824-1883)
Edmund
Dulac (1882-1953)
Eulalie (1895-
1999)
Edward
Gorey(1925- )
Kate
Greenaway (1846-1901)
Berta
and Elmer Hader (1890-1976, 1889-1973)
Arthur
Hughes (1832-1915)
Ezra
Jack Keats
Dorothy
Lathrop (1891-1980)
Robert
Lawson (1892-1957)
Henriette
Willebeek Le Mair (1889-1966)
Lois
Lenski (1893-1974)
Kay
Nielsen (1886-1957)
Another
Kay Nielsen site
Winsor
McCay (1867-1934)
Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966)
Another Maxfield
Parrish site
Maud
and Miska Petersham (1889-1971, 1888-1960)
Willy
Pogany (1882- )
Beatrix
Potter (1866-1943)
Howard
Pyle (1853-1911)
Another
Howard Pyle site
Arthur
Rackham (1867-1939)
Charles
Robinson (1870-1937)
William
Heath Robinson (1872-1944)
Norman Rockwell
(1894-1978)
Dr.Seuss
(1904-1991)
Ernest
Howard Shepard (1879-1976)
Jessie
Wilcox Smith (1863-1935)
Another
Jessie Wilcox Smith site
Margaret
Winifred Tarrant (1888-1959)
Gustaf
Tenggren (1896-1970)
Sir
John Tenniel (1820-1914)
Tasha
Tudor (1915- )
Lynd
Ward (1905-1985)
N.C.
Wyeth (1882-1945)
Selected List
of Titles that May Prove Helpful in Examining Illustration
Bader, Barbara. American
Picture books from Noah's Ark to the Beast Within. New York: Macmillan,
1976.
Children's Book Council. 75
Years of Children's Book Week Posters. Introduction & text by
Leonard Marcus. New York: Knopf, 1994.
Crane, Walter. Of the Decorative
Illustration of Books Old and New. London: Bell & Hyman, 1979.
(First published in 1896.)
Feaver, William. When We
Were Young: Two Centuries of Children's Book Illustration. London:
Gollanez, 1976.
Hunt, Peter, Ed. Children's
Literature: An Illustrated History. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
1995.
Image & Maker: An Annual
Dedicated to the Consideration of Book Illustration. ed. by Harold
Darling and Peter Neumeyer. La Jolla, CA: Green Tiger Press, 1984.
Mahony, Bertha and others.
Illustrators of Children's Books 1744-1945. Boston, MA: The Horn
Book, 1947.
Muir, Percy. Victorian Illustrated
Books. London: Portman Books, 1989.
Myth, Magic, and Mystery:
One Hundred Years of American Children's Book Illustration. Introductory
Essay by Michael Patrick Hearn. Essays by Trinkett Clark and H. Nichols
B. Clark. Boulder, CO: Robert Rinehart in Cooperation with the Chrysler
Museum of Art, 1996.
Opie, Iona and Robert Opie
and Brian Alderson. The Treasures of Childhood: Books, Toys, and Games
From the Opie Collection. New York: Arcade, Little Brown, 1989.
Ovenden, Graham, Editor. The
Illustrators of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.
London: Academy Editors, 1972.
Pitz, Henry C. Illustrating
Children's Books. New York: Watson-Guptill, 1963.
Victorian Color Picture
Books. Edited by Jonathan Cott. New York: Stonehill Publishing in
association with Chelsea House, 1983.
Various editions of the Horn
Book have been devoted to illustrators. For example, see the Arthur
Rackham issue of May-June, 1940 and the Leslie Brooke issue of May-June
1941.
Created
September 20, 1995 and is continuously revised
SCILS,
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
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