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V.Accornero (Murrays, London 1968)
Winifred Ackroyd (London 1930)
1912 published by Blackie & Sons available in online shop.
Olive Allen (Edward Arnold London 1910)
L.Alpino (Odhams, London 1966)
Honor Appleton
The Children's Alice 1936
Honor Charlotte Appleton was born in Brighton on 4 February 1879 and studied at the
South Kensington Schools, Frank Calderon’s School of Animal Painting and the Royal
Academy Schools. At the end of her first year at the RA Schools, she published The Bad
Mrs Ginger (1902). Evolving her own distinctive style through the assimilation of such nursery
artists as Kate Greenaway, Annie French and early Mabel Lucie Attwell, she became a
professional illustrator eight years later with Blake’s Songs of Innocence (1910). Continuing
to keep herself well-informed about the work of her contemporaries, she subscribed to Percy
Bradshaw’s correspondence course, The Art of the Illustrator, in 1917. During the following three
decades she illustrated over a hundred and fifty books. While the best known of her early illustrations
were for the ‘Josephine’ series, to texts by Mrs Cradock, she produced much other fine work. In the
nineteen-thirties and forties, she moved away from nursery subjects to concentrate upon children’s
versions of literary classics for George G Harrap. Shrewd and independent, Appleton lived in Hove
throughout her career, and travelled only on matters of business. She died on 31 December 1951,
and was the subject of a memorial show held in Hove in the following year.
Mabel Lucie Attwell (1879-1964)
Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd., 1910
Mabel Lucie Attwell became a household name during the 1930's and 40's. She was born 4 June
1879 at Mile End in London, the ninth child out of ten children born to a butcher. She studied at both
the Regent School of Art and Heatherley's School of Art, but because she disliked formal training
and grew bored with copying, she never completed either course. She preferred to illustrate her
own fantasies.
In 1908, Attwell married artist Harold Earnshaw. Their daughter Peggy was the inspiration for the
typical Mabel Lucie Attwell toddler and achieved immortality through the illustrations in Attwell's books.
Peggy (Wickham) later became a talented artist and illustrator in her own right.
Between 1905 and 1913, Attwell illustrated ten books for W. & R. Chambers, providing 4 to 8 color
plates for each. By 1911, she was designing postcards and greeting cards for Valentine & Sons of Dundee.
She illustrated two gift books for Hodder & Stoughton. The first was Peeping Pansy in 1918 by Marie,
Queen of Roumania. The Queen even invited Attwell to stay at the Royal Palace in Bucharest.
The second book was Peter Pan and Wendy by J. M. Barrie who admired her work and personally
requested her to illustrate this edition.
During her career, she designed advertisements, posters, calendars, figurines and wall plaques.
She also contributed to several periodicals and annuals. In 1943, she started a comic strip in the
London Opinion called "Wot a Life". Sets of Mabel Lucie Attwell China were used in the Royal
Nursery of Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, and later Prince Charles... 24 complete place settings.
Her illustrations of chubby, winsome children were extremely popular during the 1930's and 40's.
Although she was criticized, she became a wide commercial success.
In 1945 Attwell moved to Cornwall to live with her son Peter.
She died in Cornwall on Guy Fawkes Day, 5 November 1964.
Malcolm Ashman
Tweedledum & Tweedledee
Through the Looking Glass. Dragons World 1989
Born in Bath in 1957. Attended Somerset College of Art, though largely self taught. A successful
illustrator, Malcolm now concentrates on a variety of subjects with landscape very much in the forefront.
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G.W.Backhouse (William Collins London 1951)
Blasco (Idea Books)
Greg Becker
2000
Since leaving the Royal College of Art Greg Becker has worked as an illustrator for
many leading newspapers, magazines and publishing houses.
His work is a mixture of humour, mood and symbolism blended together in a variety
of ways to try and create my own idiosyncratic world
Dagmar Berkova
Alice au pays des merveilles
1992
Alex Blum
An Alice comic book; illustrated by Alex A. Blum
Classics Illustrated, Number 49, Fall 1968
Peter Blake
b. 1932
The British painter and illustrator Peter Blake attended he Gravesend Technical College
and School of Art between 1946 and 1951 and switched then to the Royal College of Art
in London, which he left in 1956. His early work was dominated by two main subjects:
fantastic scenes from the world of circus and naturalistic paintings with autobiographic
elements. The combination of imitations of the popular image world of event posters with
portraits was typical for Blake. Beside circus' figures, Blake often depicted children, which
were shown e.g. reading comics. Both types of images were precursing in form and content
for English Pop-Art. A Leverhulme-scholarship made it possible for Blake to travel through
Europe and to become acquainted with contemporary artistic tendencies. Inspired by
reproductions by Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, he began to paint collage-like
pictures of pop musicians and film stars as well as to execute assemblages from used materials, postcards and other things in 1959. Beside collages Blake also worked with the medium
of imitation: painted collages, imitated pin-up walls and locker doors, enlarged, painted
motives of postcards and pictorial adaptations of posters came into existence. He had
his hugest success with his design for the cover of the Beatles' album ‚Sergeant Pepper's
Lonely Hearts Club Band' (1967). In 1975 Blake belonged to the foundation members of the ‚Brotherhood of Ruralists'. Under the influence of this artist group and the rural surrounding
of his domicile in Wellow on Avon, his image language changed. The members expected
new artistic impulses and a moral renewal from life in the country. Like the Pre-Raffaelites
they strove for an aesthetic penetration of all areas of life. Blake attended to subjects from
childhood, from the world of fairytales and pixies, which he depicted realistically using Old
Master techniques
Hilda Boswell
A.L. Bowley
‘Come to Life’ Panorama
‘Storyland Treasure’, Raphael Tuck, London, n.d. [c. 1921]. With ‘Come to Life’ panorama.
The single popup is in the centre of the book.
The first issue has ‘Patent applied for’ printed in the lower right hand corner of the panorama.
A later issue has a patent number in the lower left corner of the panorama, and different
adverts at the end of the book.
Anthony Browne
After he left school, Anthony studied graphic design and then went on to paint the insides of people's
bodies for medical textbooks. He found this fascinating, but after three years found that the work was
becoming repetitive ("if you've seen one stomach operation, you've seen 'em all!") and instead began
designing greetings cards. This in turn led him to illustrating children's books - his book Gorilla began
life as a picture on a birthday card. Anthony lives in Kent and has two grown-up children.
Gorillas feature in many of Anthony's books. He says, "I am fascinated by them and the contrast they
represent - their huge strength and gentleness. They're thought of as being very fierce creatures and
they're not." Anthony's illustrations also reveal his love of the Surrealist painters, whose pictures often
depict strange, dreamlike scenes (look out for all the disguised bananas hidden in Anthony's books!).
When Anthony first has an idea for a picture book, he says, "it's a strange combination of story and
images. Deciding what will be illustrated on the pages of a book is like deciding on the scenes of a film.
" Anthony has won many prizes for his work, including the Kate Greenaway Medal (twice) and the Kurt
Maschler Award (three times). In 2000, he received the highest international honour for illustration, the
Hans Christian Andersen Award, for his services to children's literature - the first British illustrator to win
the prize since 1956.
Brigitte Bryan
Michel Blanc-Dumont
After an artistic education in applied arts, Michel Blanc-Dumont worked with his
father for three years, restoring paintings and art objects. It is during this
period that he developed a passion for the "wild west" and the Native Americans.
He began doing some comics work on the side in 1973. He started out publishing
in Phénix, but eventually joined Jeunes Années, where he illustrated several
Indian legends as well as several posters. His actual comics career took off in
1974, when he began the western series 'Jonathan Cartland' with scenarist Laurence
Harlé in Lucky Luke Magazine.
Frank Bolle
Bolle was born and raised in New York City. He attended the High School of Music and Art,
later served with the Army Air Force from 1943 to 1946. After the war, Bolle found work in
the comic industry.
Frank is one of the most prolific comic book artists of all time, with his career starting in
1948 (a mere ten years after the dawn of the Golden Age and 8 full years before the
Silver Age began) and going straight through to today.
Bolle started at Magazine Enterprises illustrating westerns, Tim Holt, Redmask and Best
of the West. He designed and illustrated Childrens' records and albums. He worked
for Western Publishing, Illustrating dozens of books from the "Golden Books" to Sherlock
Holmes and other Adventure novels. He also did science fiction comic books like Buck
Rogers, Flash Gordon and Dr. Solar (Man of the Atom). His best remembered
superhero Is "Doctor Solar, Man Of The Atom".
While working for Western Publishing. They asked him to illustrate Grimm's Ghost
Stories, Boris Karloff's Tales of Mystery and Rod Sterling's Twilight Zone. Around
the same time, Bolle began writing and drawing Childrens'Tales. A Syndicate
Sunday feature with original stories and adapted fairy tale classics.
Bolle drew The Heart of Juliet Jones for King Feature from 1982 to 1999, and the
long- running soap-opera strip Winnie Winkle dailies and Sundays for twenty years
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Linda Card
Whitman Publishing Co., Racine, WI, 1945
Nicole Claveloux
French author and illustrator (1940)
Biography:
Nicole Claveloux was born in 1940 in Saint-Etienne. She studied Fine Arts in Saint-Etienne
and in 1967 she went to live to Paris. She drew strip cartoons and illustrated newspapers
for bayard-Press. From 1966 on, she works with the editors Harlin Quist and François-Vidal.
She also draws front-pages for Gallimard and Laffont. Up untill now she has published
more than 60 works.
Rene Cloke
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Rene Cloke started her illustration work as greeting card designer. Born in Plymouth,
Cloke soon moved to London and illustrated many children’s books, including Alice
in Wonderland, Red Riding Hood Goes to the Teddy-Bear's Picnic, Joy Bells and
many others. Rene Cloke's illustrations have seen a great deal of interest by collectors
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Ernie Colon
Ernie Colon is a American comics artist, born in 1931 in Puerto Rico. Comic book series
on which he has worked include Monster in My Pocket, Richie Rich and Casper the
Friendly Ghost . Since 2005, Colon has been doing the weekly comic strip"Spycat"
in the Weekly World News. Ernie Colon and Sid Jacobson created a graphic novel
version of the 9/11 Commission Report in August 2006 titled The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation.
Fanny Cory
Fanny Y. Cory was one of the first female comic artists in America. She started her career in illuatrating and creating comics in the early 1900s, but she abandoned her art in 1913 to devote herself to family life on a ranch in Montana. In 1916, she briefly resumed her comics by creating 'Ben Bolt', and in 1925, when she needed the money to put her daughter through college, she took up her career permanently. She came up with the one-panel cartoon 'Other People's Children' (1925), and later with 'Sonny Sayings' (1926) and 'Little Miss Muffet' (1935). This last strip, about an orphan girl closely resembling Shirley Temple, ran for 21 years until Fanny Y. Cory retired at age 76. Her failing eyesight did not prevent her from continuing painting. She died in 1972, at the age of 95.
Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali was born in May 11, 1904 in the small agricultural town of Figueres, Spain.
Figueres is located in the foothills of the Pyrenees, only sixteen miles from the French
border in the principality of Catalonia. The son of a prosperous notary, Salvador Dali spent
his boyhood in Figueres and at the family's summer home in the coastal fishing village of
Cadaques where his parents built his first studio. As an adult, he made his home with his
wife Gala in nearby Port Lligat. Many of his paintings reflect his love of this area of Spain.
The young Salvador Dali attended the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid. Early
recognition of Salvador Dali's talent came with his first one-man show in Barcelona in 1925. He
became internationally known when three of his paintings, including The Basket of Bread (now
in the Museum's collection), were shown in the third annual Carnegie International Exhibition
in Pittsburgh in 1928.
The following year, Dalí held his first one-man show in Paris. He also joined the surrealists, led
by former Dadaist Andre Breton. That year, Dalí met Gala Eluard when she visited him in
Cadaques with her husband, poet Paul Eluard. She became Dalí's lover, muse, business manager,
and chief inspiration.
Dalí soon became a leader of the surrealist movement. His painting, The Persistance of Memory,
with the soft or melting watches is still one of the best-known surrealist works. But as the war approached, the apolitical Dalí clashed with the surrealists and was "expelled" from the surrealist
group during a "trial" in 1934. He did however, exhibit works in international surrealist
exhibitions throughout the decade but by 1940, Dalí was moving into a new style that eventually
became known as his "classic" period, demonstrating a preoccupation with science and religion.
Dalí and Gala escaped from Europe during World War II, spending 1940-48 in the United States.
These were very important years for the artist. The Museum of Modern Art in New York gave Dali
his first major retrospective exhibit in 1941. This was followed in 1942 by the publication of Dali's autobiography, The Secret Life of Salvador Dali.
As Dalí moved away from Surrealism and into his classic period, he began his series of 19 large canvases, many concerning scientific, historical or religous themes. Among the best known
of these works are The Hallucinogenic Toreador, and The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus in the museum's collection, and The Sacrament of the Last Supper in the collection
of the National Gallery in Washington, D.C.
In 1974, Dalí opened the Teatro Museo in Figueres, Spain. This was followed by retrospectives
in Paris and London at the end of the decade. After the death of his wife, Gala, in 1982, Dalí's
health began to fail. It deteriorated further after he was burned in a fire in his home in Pubol in
1984. Two years later, a pace-maker was implanted. Much of this part of his life was spent in
seclusion, first in Pubol and later in his apartments at Torre Galatea, adjacent to the Teatro
Museo. Salvador Dalí died on January 23, 1989 in Figueres from heart failure with respiratory complications.
As an artist, Salvador Dalí was not limited to a particular style or media. The body of his work,
from early impressionist paintings through his transitional surrealist works, and into his
classical period, reveals a constantly growing and evolving artist. Dalí worked in all media,
leaving behind a wealth of oils, watercolors, drawings, graphics, and sculptures, jewels and
objects of all descriptions.
Whether working from pure inspiration or on a commissioned illustration, Dalí's matchless
insight and symbolic complexity are apparent. Above all, Dalí was a superb draftsman. His
excellence as a creative artist will always set a standard for the art of the twentieth century.
"Every morning when I wake up I experience an exquisite joy—the joy of being Salvador
Dalí—and I ask myself in rapture, ‘What wonderful things this Salvador Dalí is going to accomplish today?’" —Salvador Dalí.
Robin and Patricia Dewitt
Biography: Robin and Pat DeWitt are twin sisters who worked together creating the art for
It Happens in the Month of… book series. Both received their BA in illustration from the
Maryland Institute College of Art in 1980. Robin returned to college in 1998 and received
her masters degree in digital art. Represented by Craven Design in New York, they have
been illustrating children's books for fifteen years and have illustrated Under the
Greenwood Tree by William Shakespeare, The Peach Tree by Norman Pike, The
Marvelous Maze by Maxine Rose Shurs, and The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Sharon
Chmielarz
Angel Dominguez
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Angel Dominguez lives in Bilbao, Spain, and has illustrated many books around wildlife
and children’s stories. He combined his love of Britain with his love of nature in his first
children’s book, Diary of a Victorian Mouse. A professional artist since 1971, he is also a keen
collector of rare children’s books, particularly those of Arthur Rackham. He is currently busy
with new projects in various stages of production.
Books illustrated include: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Anaconda y Otros Cuentos de
La Selva, Animal Adventure Mazes, Diary of a Victorian Mouse, Journey to Freedom,
Twelve Days of Christmas. |
