History of Illustrators is super fun... we had Bingo night and learned about many illustrators and fun facts of ea. here are the ones we covered:
Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) haunting and dreamlike
style has added to the enchantment and fantasy of the children's literature and
his imitators are many. Major works of illustration include the children's
books Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (1900), Rip van Winkle (1905), Peter
Pan in Kensington Gardens (1906) “The Fairies in Spring”, and Alice's
Adventures in Wonderland (1907). A Midsummer Night's Dream (1908), The
Rhinegold, short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, and several fairy tale books.. His
works were included in numerous exhibitions, including one at the Louvre in
Paris in 1914
Theodor Seuss Geisel (March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991)
Dr Seuss was an American writer and cartoonist.
Randolph Caldecott (1846–1886) was a British artist and
illustrator, born in Chester. He was the eponym of the Caldecott Medal.
Caldecott transformed the world of children's books in the
Victorian era. Children eagerly awaited the two books illustrated by him,
priced at a shilling each, which came out each Christmas for eight years.
Jessie Willcox Smith (September 6, 1863 - May 3, 1935) was
an American illustrator famous for her work in magazines such as Ladies Home
Journal and for her illustrations for children's books. The Water Babies, Beauty and
the Beast, Snow White, Cinderella….
Palmer Cox was born in Granby, Quebec, Canada in 1840. He
studied at Granby Academy and moved to San Francisco in 1863, where he worked
as a writer and illustrator for magazines Golden Era and Alta California. From
1875 on, he lived in New York. He illustrated his own books with humorous
drawings. Some of his titles are 'Squibs of California, or Everyday Life
Illustrated', 'Hans von Pelter's Trip to Gotham', 'That Stanley', 'Queer People
with Wings and Stings' and the famous 'The Brownies'. The Brownie
characters gained great popularity and were used by George Eastman to promote
the widespread use of Kodak's Brownie cameras. The Brownies were merchandised
as games, cards, dolls etc., but Palmer Cox never received any money for the
use of his comic creations.
Helen Beatrix Potter (28 July 1866 – 22 December 1943) was
an English author and illustrator, botanist, and conservationist, best known
for her children's books, which featured animal characters such as Peter
Rabbit. Educated at home by a succession of governesses, she had little
opportunity to mix with other children. Even Potter's younger brother, Bertram,
was rarely at home; he was sent to boarding school, leaving Beatrix alone with
her pet animals. She had frogs and newts, and even a pet bat. Among her pets
were two rabbits. Her first rabbit was Benjamin, whom she described as "an
impudent, cheeky little thing", while her second was Peter, whom she took
everywhere with her, even on the occasional outings, on a little lead. Potter
would watch these animals for hours on end, sketching them. Gradually the
sketches became better and better, developing her talents from an early age.
Norman Percevel Rockwell (1894 –1978) was a 20th century
American painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the
United States, where Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of
everyday life scenarios he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine over
more than four decades. During the First World War, he tried to enlist into the
U.S. Navy but was refused entry because, at 6 feet tall and 140 pounds he was
eight pounds underweight. To compensate, he spent one night gorging himself on
bananas, liquids and donuts, and weighed enough to enlist the next day.
However, he was given the role of a military artist and did not see any action
during his tour of duty.
William Wallace Denslow (May 5, 1856–March 29, 1915) was an
illustrator and caricaturist remembered for his work in collaboration with
author L. Frank Baum, especially his illustrations of The Wonderful Wizard of
Oz
Maurice Bernard Sendak (born June 10, 1928) is an American
writer and illustrator of children's literature who is best known for his book Where
the Wild Things Are, published in 1963. Where the Wild Things Are won the 1964
Caldecott Medal. In 1970 he won the Hans Christian Andersen Award for
children's book illustration, and in 2003 he shared the Astrid Lindgren
Memorial Award with Christine Nöstlinger, the first time it was awarded.
Jean de Brunhoff (December 9, 1899 – October 16, 1937)
was a French writer and illustrator known for co-creating Babar, which first
appeared in 1931. The stories were originally told to their son by his wife
Cecile de Brunhoff. After its first appearance, six more titles followed authored
by Jean de Burnhoff. Brunhoff died of tuberculosis, at the age of 37. After his
death, Hachette bought the printing and publishing rights to the Babar series,
and Jean's son, Laurent de Brunhoff, took on his late father's role of
illustrating the books.
H.A. Rey. The series was written and drawn by the team of
H.A. Rey and Margret Rey, starting in 1941. According to Hans A. Rey's obituary
in Sky and Telescope, the couple fled Paris in June 1940 with the "Curious
George" manuscript in their luggage. [2][3] A German officer who searched
it allowed the couple to pass because he thought it deserved
publication,[citation needed] unlikely to happen under Nazi occupation because
the Reys were Jewish. At first only Hans A. Rey was credited for the work in order
to differentiate the Reys' books from the large number of children's books
written by female authors. Later, Hans Rey was credited for the illustrations
and Margret Rey for the writing. The Reys produced many other children's books,
but the Curious George series was the most popular.
Kate Greenaway (Catherine Greenaway) (London, 1846 -
1901) was a children's book illustrator and writer. Her first book, Under The
Window (1879), a collection of simple, perfectly idyllic verses concerning
children who endlessly gathered posies, “Polly”, untouched by
the Industrial Revolution, was a best-seller. The Kate Greenaway Medal is
awarded annually by the UK Chartered Institute of Library and Information
Professionals to an illustrator of children's books. Illus The Pied Piper, The
Queen of Pirate Isle, and Rhymes for Children.
Walter Crane (1845 - 1915) was an English artist. Born in
Liverpool, he was part of the Arts and Crafts movement. He produced paintings,
illustrations, children's books, ceramic tiles and other decorative arts.
sixpenny toy-books of nursery rhymes, series beginning with The Frog Prince
(1874) , Queen Summer (1891), Renascence (1891), and The Sirens Three (1886). “Beauty
and the Beast”.
Sir John Tenniel (February 28, 1820 – February 25,
1914) was an English illustrator. He drew many topical cartoons and caricatures
for Punch in the late 19th century, including the iconic dropping the pilot,
but is best remembered today for his illustrations in Lewis Carroll's Alice
in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.
Tomie A. DePaola (born 1934), is a U.S. author and
illustrator of many books for children and adults, including Strega Nona, 26
Fairmount Avenue and Christmas Remembered. His newest book is Tomie dePaola's
Front Porch Tales & North Country Whoppers.He is currently working on
Brava, Strega Nona, a Magical Pop-up Book with paper engineering by Robert
Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart. Publication will be during the fall of 2008.
Johnny Gruelle (1880 - 1938) was an artist,
political cartoonist, and writer of children's books. He is best known as the
creator of Raggedy Ann. He also provided colour illustrations for a 1914
edition of Grimm's Fairy Tales. His first well known cartooning work was Mr.
Twee Deedle which Gruelle created after he beat out 1,500 other entrants in a
cartooning contest sponsored in 1911 by The New York Herald. Mr. Twee Deedle
was in print from 1911 to 1914. One day, Johnny gave his daughter Marcella a
dusty, faceless rag doll found in the attic. Johnny drew a face on the doll and
named her Raggedy Ann. Marcella played with the doll so much, Raggedy Ann
became like a sister to her. Gruelle wanted other little girls to have such
dolls. And the Raggedy Ann doll was born September 7, 1915. Gruelle then
created a following series of popular Raggedy Ann books and dolls. “Rapunzel”
Edmund Dulac (1882-1953) was a French book illustrator
prominent during the so called "Golden Age of Illustration" (the
first quarter or so of the twentieth century). Books produced under this
arrangement by Dulac include The Arabian Nights (1907), an edition of
Shakespeare's The Tempest (1908), of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1909), The
Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales (1910), Stories from Hans Christian
Andersen (1911), The Bells and Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe (1912) and
Princess Badoura (1913). During World War I he contributed to relief books,
including King Albert's Book, Princess Mary's Gift Book, and, unusually, his
own Edmund Dulac's Picture Book for the French Red Cross (1915).” Princess
and the Pea”
Eric Carle
Born in NY in 1929 to German
immigrants, when he was six years old; his mother, homesick for Germany, took
the family back to Stuttgart. He was educated there. Eric's father was drafted
into the German army in 1939 at the beginning of WWII and was taken prisoner of
war by the Soviet Forces when Germany capitulated in the Sping of 1945. He
returned home in late 1947, weighing 85 pounds. "When he came back, he was
a broken man." in Eric
Carle's own words in a "sick man, psychologically, physically
devastated." Eric had been sent to the small town to escape the bombings
of Stuttgart. When Eric was 15, the German government conscripted him and other
boys of his age to dig trenches on the Siegfried line. And the first day three
people were killed a few feet away. And in Stuttgart, our home town, our house
was the only one standing. When I say standing, I mean the roof and windows are
gone, and the doors. And, well, there you are." Always homesick for
America, Eric dreamed of returning one day to the US. so he moved to NYC in
1952 with only $40 to his name. Once there, he landed a job as a graphic
designer for NY Times. He was drafted into the U.S. Army during the Korean War
and stationed in Germany with the Second Armored Division and appointed the
position of mail clerk.After returning from the service, Carle returned to his
old job with The New York Times and
later became the art director of an advertising agency.
John Rea Neill (November 12, 1877 - September 13, 1943) primarily
known for illustrating more than forty stories set in the Land of OZ, including
L. Frank Baum's, Ruth Plumly Thompson's,
and three of his own. Born in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, John R. Neill did his first illustration work for the
Philadelphia's Central High School newspaper in 1894-95. Neill dropped out of
school after one semester because he said, "they have nothing to teach
me". He then turned to advertising art for the Wanamaker department store
in Philadelphia. He became a staff artist of the Philadelphia North American newspaper, for which he produced features like the
comics strip Toyland, illustrations
for the serialization of 'The Fate of a Crown' (a book by L. Frank Baum), Children's
Stories That Never Grow Old, and the
Sunday comics page 'The Little Journeys of Nip and Tuck' with verses by W.R.
Bradford (1909–1910). He was first commissioned to illustrate The Marvelous Land
of Oz, the second Oz book L. Frank
Baum wrote, published in 1904; The Wonderful
Wizard of Oz had been illustrated
by W. W. Denslow, with
whom Baum argued and lost contact afterward. Neill illustrated dozens of books
that were not written by Baum. One of the most notable of Neill's non-Baum
books was his adaptation of Helen Bannerman's 1899
story, Little Black
Sambo. Neill's edition of Little Black Sambo, which was published by Reilly
and Britton in 1908, included a short story called "The Story of Topsy
from Uncle Tom's Cabin."
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