Category: Illustration
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Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale
Mary Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale was an Edwardian period English illustrator, gallery artist and stained glass designer. She studied at the Crystal Palace School of Art and then at Royal Academy, and was elected to the Royal Watercolour Society. She illustrated children’s books, Authurian ledgends and poetry by well known authors including Tennyson and Browning. She worked…
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Kathryn Rathke
I’m just guessing, but I have a notion that Seattle based illustrator Kathryn Rathke’s early fascination with art may have coincided with an interest in hand calligraphy. Her drawings, both black and white and color, are based on wonderfully calligraphic lines — dancing, looping and jogging across the page; at times almost seeming to construct…
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Robert Fawcett
American illustrator Robert Fawcett was a master of expressive texture, controlled color, dramatic value, strong composition and, above all, superb draftsmanship. Fawcett was active in the early middle of the 20th Century, a time when the role of photography, and the shifts in fine art, were dramatically changing the look and feel of illustration. Like…
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James Bama Sketchbook
James Bama is one of America’s primere “Western” artists, though less in the sense that term is usually applied to artists who depict the landscapes of the American West, and more in the tradition of artists like Frederic Remington who portray the people and character types associated with the traditions of the frontier west and…
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Joseph Adolphe
Originally from Calgary, Canada, illustrator and gallery artist Joseph Adolphe now lives and works in Connecticut. His painted illustrations have an immediate, painterly quality that almost seems casual, with paint laid on in dabs and chunks, rough textured backgrounds and a loose, comfortable command of his materials. Many of his illustrations blend drawing and painting,…
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Fritz Kahn
Dr. Fritz Kahn was a Berlin based gynecologist who wrote and illustrated a number of popular science books that showed the processes of the human body as though they were machines. While the metaphors may be limited in terms of actually understanding biological functions, they make for great imagery. Kahn was active in the 1920’s.…