Week 6 Flashcards
Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel
(1851 - 1913)
- The most popular French illustrator of the late 19th century; known for his children’s books
- He was born in France and started off as an academic painter, studying at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and then exhibiting at the Salon de Paris in 1870s.
- started illustrating for financial reasons. Magazines, then books: Old Songs and Rounds for Small Children (1883), Songs of France for French Children (1884) and a number of other children’s books in France which were translated into English in the early 20th Century.
- He was a popular portraitist for children of noble families good at capturing moods of children. received many portrait commissions, considered giving up illustration.
- 1899: Boutet de Monvel came to the United States to exhibit work. He was commissioned to create a series of large panels based on Joan of Arc. Another 6 are now part of the Corcoran Gallery of Art in D.C.
- Died in 1913 in France.
- He was the most popular French illustrator of the late 19th Century.
Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel
Nos Enfants (1887)
Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel
(1887)
Title translates into: “Civility : Childlike and Honest”. This was an etiquette book for children. The date above links to the entire book if you are interested in seeing more.
Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel
La Civilité: Puérile et Honnête (1887)
Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel
La Civilité: Puérile et Honnête (1887)
Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel
Jeanne d’Arc (1895)
This is an illustrated children’s history of Joan of Arc and is considered his MASTERPIECE. It features epic scenes in muted color, nobility and grandeur. Boutet de Monvel was inspired by Japanese prints (dynamic action compositions).
Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel
Jeanne d’Arc (1895)
Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel
Jeanne d’Arc (1895)
Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel
Jeanne d’Arc (1895)
Beatrix Potter
(1866 -1943)
- British author, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist, was a good businesswoman created spin-off merchandise from her stories and owned farmland later in life and raised sheep
- born in England to a large family of privilege. They were religious and artistic. She owned pets as a child, and drew them (mice, rabbits, hedgehog, bats, butterflies). Beatrix Potter would take them with her on holidays.
- She was precocious and reserved but bored as a child.
- She had an early interest in art and language, literary science, and history.
- She became engaged to her editor to the disapproval of her family. He died 1 month later. She married a country solicitor when she was in her 40s who had helped her with her farmland boundaries. She never had kids.
- Potter published more than 23 books and illustrated cards and booklets. Her best known were written between 1902 – 1922: The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin (1903), The Tale of Benjamin Bunny (1904)
- She was inspired by Edward Lear (Book of Nonsense), John Tenniel’s Alice, Walter Crane, Kate Greenaway, and Randolph Caldecott (remember that her family bought around 30 of his originals).
- She’s known for the lively quality of her illustrations, her depiction of the rural countryside and the imaginary qualities of animal characters.
- Eventually, her land management duties and diminishing eyesight caused her to stop illustrating.
- She died at home at age 77. Left all of her property and illustrations to the National Trust (a non-profit that’s dedicated to preserving cultural or environmental treasures in England).
Beatrix Potter
Sketch of field mice
Beatrix Potter
Early sketch of Benjamin Bunny
Beatrix Potter
Beatrix Potter
Beatrix Potter
Beatrix Potter
Drawing of fungi
1890s: Potter’s mycological illustrations and research on fungi spores generated interest in the scientific community.
Beatrix Potter
The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902)
The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1901). It started out as a story written in a letter to the ill son of a former governess. A year later, it got picked up by reputed publishers.
Beatrix Potter
The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902)
The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1901). It started out as a story written in a letter to the ill son of a former governess. A year later, it got picked up by reputed publishers.
Beatrix Potter
The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902)
The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1901). It started out as a story written in a letter to the ill son of a former governess. A year later, it got picked up by reputed publishers.
Beatrix Potter
The Tale of Two Bad Mice
Charles Robinson
(1870 - 1937)
- Prolific British children’s book and magazine illustrator
- His completely designed his books from lettering to illustration to page layout reflects his influences from Aubrey Beardsley, Walter Crane and the Arts & Crafts movement
- His brothers, Thomas Heath and William Heath, were also popular illustrators of the time
- Charles Robinson was born in England. His dad was a bookbinder and his brothers were both illustrators (Thomas Heath and William Heath Robinson).
- He apprenticed as a lithographer and took evening classes at West London and Heatheroy’s School of Art. He began freelancing in 1892.
- His black and white work was similar to Beardsley and Edward Burne-Jones.
- GIFT BOOKS entered the scene and changed Robinson’s work (1905)
***-GIFT BOOKS!! (1905): Expensive editions of children’s books with color illustrations tipped in. Invention of color separation had been perfected and it was now possible to mass-produce beautiful full-color images.***
-Robinson illustrated more than 100 books for children. Basically self-trained. Illustrated Children’s magazines as well. 6-7 a year until WW1 and continued after the war
He lived an unpretentious, normal life. He was admired and loved by family and friends and died at 66 in 1937.
Charles Robinson
A Child’s Garden of Verses (1895)
brought immediate success
Charles Robinson
Lullaby-Land: Songs of Childhood (1897)
Charles Robinson
Andersen’s Fairy Tales (1897)
Charles Robinson
The Child’s Christmas (1906)
Charles Robinson
The Story of the Weathercock (1907)
Charles Robinson
The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde (1913)
Charles Robinson
The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde (1913)
Charles Robinson
The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde (1913)
Charles Robinson
The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde (1913)
Charles Robinson
Songs and Sonnets by William Shakespeare (1915)
Arthur Rackham
(1867 - 1939)
- British Illustrator known for his sinuous pen lines and muted watercolors, forests of looming trees, sensuous but chaste maidens, and backgrounds filled with hidden images
- Illustrated numerous books and worked through the 1930s, but the peak of his career ran from 1908-1911
- His version of Rip Van Winkle in 1905 ushered in the Gift Book era of children’s book publishing
- Arthur Rackham was born in London. At age 18, he became a clerk at Westminster Fire Office. He studied part-time at the Lambeth school of art.
- He started illustrating books in 1893. Early work is stiff and kind of boring. Not until 1896 or so that it lightened up and became more fantastical.
- Expanded the use of silhouette cuts in illustration work.
- Died of cancer in home in 1939. Wind in the Willows was the last book he illustrated and it was published posthumously.
- VERY, VERY INFLUENTIAL!
Arthur Rackham
Rip Van Winkle (1905)
Arthur Rackham
Rip Van Winkle (1905)
Arthur Rackham
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1906)
Arthur Rackham
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1906)
Arthur Rackham
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1906)
Arthur Rackham
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1907)
Arthur Rackham
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1907)
Arthur Rackham
Grimm’s Fairy Tales - The Old Woman in the Wood (1909)
Arthur Rackham
The Rhinegold & Valkyrie (1910)
Arthur Rackham
Sleeping Beauty (1920)
An example of his silhouette work
Arthur Rackham
Edmund Dulac
(1882 - 1953)
- French illustrator of books, caricatures, portraits, theatre costumes and set designs, postage stamps for Great Britain and bank notes for France
- Best known for his mellow, romantic, exotic gift book illustrations
- He studied law at the University of Toulouse for 2 years. He switched to art when he became bored and started winning art prizes. He briefly studied at the Academie Julien in Paris in 1904. He moved to London right as Gift Books were born.
- Gift books were his 1st assignment
- Age 22: Commissioned to illustrate Jane Eyre. After that, he published one book a year through Leicester Gallery, part of Hadder and Stoughton publishing.
He was primarily a painter. His illustrations don’t depend on ink line to hold color. ink lines helped to conceal issues with layered color printing and registration.
- During WWI, Dulac contributed to relief books and created Dulac’s Picture Book for French Red Cross (1915)
- Later: Newspaper caricatures, portraiture, theatre costume and set design, bookplates, chocoloate boxes, postage stamps for Great Britain and banknotes for France.
- Dulac Continued to publish books through the end of his life, but far less often and less luxuriously than during Golden Age. He died of a heart attack half-way through final book commission in 1953.
Edmund Dulac
The Tempest (1908)
Edmund Dulac
The Tempest (1908)
Edmund Dulac
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1909)
Edmund Dulac
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1909)
Edmund Dulac
Stories from Hans Christian Anderson - The Little Mermaid (1911)
Edmund Dulac
Stories from Hans Christian Anderson - The Little Mermaid (1911)
Edmund Dulac
Stories from Hans Christian Anderson - The Nightingale (1911)
Edmund Dulac
Stories from Hans Christian Anderson- The Princess and the Pea (1911)
Edmund Dulac
The Bells and Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe - Lenore (1912)
Edmund Dulac
The Dreamer of Dreams - The Snow Maiden (1915)
This was the beginning of a slightly different style for Dulac
Kay Nielsen
(1886 - 1957)
- Danish illustrator best known for his Nordic fairy tale illustrations featuring fine detail and patterning
- He was born in Copenhagen to an artistic family, then studied art in Paris at Acadmie Julian and Academie Colarossi. He lived in England from 1911-16.
- His first illustration was commissioned by Hodder and Stoughton (the same gallery/publishers that Dulac worked with). It was titled, In Powder & Crinoline, Fairy Tales Retold by Sir Arthur Quiller Couch . It’s now retitled,12 Dancing Princesses. At the same time, he was commissioned by Illustrated London News - 4 illustrations each for Sleeping Beauty, Puss in Boots, Cinderella, and Bluebeard .
- During World War I, he took a hiatus from illustrating books. He returned to Denmark in 1917, where he painted stage scenery for the Royal Danish Theatre.
- 1924: He illustrated Fairy Tales of Hans Andersen, 1935: Hansel and Gretel and Other Stories by the Brothers Grimm
- The final book that he illustrated was Red Magic
- Nielsen was influenced by Aubrey Beardsley, Sir Edward Burne-Jones, and Japanese art. Also, John Bauer, a Swedish fairy tale artist.
- 1939: Nielsen moved to California, where he worked for Disney making concept art. contributed to: Ava Maria and Night on Bald Mountain sequences of Fantasia. He also created concepts for a proposed adaptation of The Little Mermaid from 1937 – 41.
- burned out and moved back to Denmark, his work was no longer in demand and suffered from poverty. He returned to the U.S. where he painted murals for local schools in Los Angeles and in churches. He developed a chronic cough until his death.
- He died at age 71 in 1957. His funeral was held under one of his murals in Wong Chapel at the First Congressional Church in L.A.
- 1975: A book of Kay Nielsen’s work was published and he became appreciated again.
Kay Nielsen
Twelve Dancing Princesses (1913)
Kay Nielsen
Twelve Dancing Princesses (1913)
Kay Nielsen
East of the Sun and West of the Moon (1914)
1914: created 25 color plates for this book of 15 Nordic Tales
Kay Nielsen
East of the Sun and West of the Moon (1914)
Kay Nielsen
East of the Sun and West of the Moon -The Three Princesses of Whiteland (1914)
Kay Nielsen
East of the Sun and West of the Moon -The Blue Belt (1914)
Kay Nielsen
Kay Nielsen
Concept art for The Little Mermaid
Kay Nielsen
Concept art for The Little Mermaid
Jessie M. King
(1875 - 1949)
- Scottish illustrator of folklore and fairy tales designed jewelry, greeting cards, textiles, ceramic, and murals.
- Illustrations greatly influenced by Art Nouveau (specifically “Glasgow Style”)
- Married to E. A. Taylor, a Scottish painter, stained glass artist and furniture designer
- Her works from her time in Paris are highly influential to the creation of the Art Deco movement
- Jessie M. King was born near Glasgow, Scotland. The ‘M” stands for Marion. She came from a strict religious family and was discouraged from becoming an artist.
- 1892: Attended the Glasgow School of Art.
- 1902: the first international exhibition of decorative arts were held in Turin and King won first prize. This established her as the preeminent illustrator of the Glasgow movement and brought her commissions for book cover designs, illustrations, and exhibitions.
- Jessie M. King was influenced by Art Nouveau and Botticelli
- She married artist E. A. Taylor in 1908.
- 1910: They moved to Paris.
- 1911: They opened the Sheiling Atelier school in Paris. The work she created during her time in Paris is considered to be very influential to the Art Deco movement.
- Due to WWI, King and her husband moved to Kirkcudbright (in Scotland)
- 1915: They moved their school there, as well, and King continued to work there until her death. Their home became an important center for women artists with King supporting and inspiring many of the artists around her.
- While her work, “Seven Happy Days” is intentionally pastel, many of her work was not, but her colored inks have faded over time.
- King viewed art-making as a deeply spiritual endeavor and was a believer in fairies.
Jessie M. King
King Arthur (1899)
Jessie M. King
Don Quixote (1901)
Jessie M. King
Seven Happy Days - Love’s Golden Dream (1913)
Jessie M. King
Seven Happy Days
Jessie M. King
A House of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde (1915)
Jessie M. King
A House of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde (1915)
Jessie M. King
A House of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde (1915)
Jessie M. King
A House of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde (1915)
Jessie M. King
The Death of Tintagiles (1914)
Jessie M. King
The Bound Princess (1916-17)
Ivan Bilibin
(1876 - 1942)
- Russian illustrator and stage designer inspired by Slavic Folklore and traditional Japanese prints
- His illustrations are known for featuring the forests and mountains of Old Russia as well as for using traditional design motifs as framing devices
- Ivan Bilibin was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. He studied in Munich and St. Petersburg.
- After, he traveled throughout the Russian North, where he became greatly influenced by old wooden architecture and Russian folklore. He was also influenced by traditional Japanese prints.
- Bilibin gained fame in 1899 for illustrations of Russian fairy tales. Forests and mountains often played as big of a part in his images as the characters. He’s known for including many traditional designs and motifs in the borders surrounding his illustrations.
- Bilibin designed ballet and opera sets.
- Due to the Russian revolutions, he lived briefly in Cairo and Alexandria, before settling in Paris in 1925 where he decorated private mansions and Orthodox churches.
- After decorating the Soviet embassy 1936, he grew restless for his homeland and returned to Russia.
- He gave lectures at the Soviet Academy of Art until 1941, when he died during the siege of Leningrad during World War II.
- His work was not widely available in America until the 1970s.
Ivan Bilibin
The Firebird and The Grey Wolf (1899)
Ivan Bilibin
Vasilia the Beautiful (1899-1900)
Ivan Bilibin
Vasilia the Beautiful (1899-1900)
Ivan Bilibin
Marya Morevna (1900)
Ivan Bilibin
Marya Morevna (1900)
Ivan Bilibin
The Tale of Tsar Saltan -The Island of Bunyan (1905)
Ivan Bilibin
The Tale of Tsar Saltan -The Merchants Visit the Tsar (1905)
Ivan Bilibin
The Tale of the Golden Cockerel (1905)
