101 Great Illustrators from the Golden Age, 1890-1925 - Softcover

Menges, Jeff

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486430812 ISBN 13: 9780486430812

Publisher: Dover Publications Inc, 2017

Synopsis

The most comprehensive compilation of its kind in print, this gorgeous edition presents more than 500 full-color works by famous and lesser-known artists from the heyday of book and magazine illustration. Featured artists include Walter Crane, Edmund Dulac, Maxfield Parrish, Howard Pyle, Arthur Rackham, N. C. Wyeth, and many others. Biographical comments and career notes accompany five or six examples of each artist's finest illustrations.

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From the Back Cover:

The most comprehensive book of its kind, this gorgeous edition presents more than 600 works, over 350 in full-color, by famous and lesser-known artists from the heyday of book and magazine illustration. Featured artists include Walter Crane, Edmund Dulac, Maxfield Parrish, Howard Pyle, Arthur Rackham, N. C. Wyeth, and many others--101 in all. Several examples of each artist's finest illustrations are accompanied by biographical comments and career notes.
Additional artists include Victorian-era illustrator Aubrey Beardsley, noted for his compelling combinations of the erotic and grotesque; American painter Harvey Dunn, one of Howard Pyle's most accomplished students; James Montgomery Flagg, famed for his U.S. Army recruitment posters; Charles Dana Gibson, creator of the iconic Gibson Girl; Charles R. Knight, a pioneer in the depiction of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures; Edward Penfield, the king of poster art; Frederic Remington, whose works document the Old West; J. Allen St. John, the principal illustrator of Edgar Rice Burroughs's adventure tales; and dozens of others.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0486430812
• ISBN 13: 9780486430812
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256