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Category: Illustration

  • Bob Peak

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    Influential illustrator Bob Peak had an impact a generation of illustrators and helped define the design and format of modern movie posters. Active in the middle of the 20th Century, Peak transformed movie posters from staid photographic collages or glamour shots to expressive excursions into a variety of design directions, from detailed rendering to spare…

  • Walter Crane

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    Walter Crane was one of the premiere English illustrators. He was active during the “Golden Age” of illustration, from the late 1800’s to the early 1900’s. Crane’s elegantly designed, deliberately retro illustrations for children’s books were influenced by his admiration for the work of Edward Byrne-Jones, and undoubtedly by the other Pre-Raphaelite painters, as well…

  • Pruett Carter

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    Pruett Carter was an American illustrator active in the first half of the 20th Century. Carter was noted primarily for his work in women’s magazines, an area of publishing that was particularly fertile ground for illustrators at the time, but also a rapidly changing filed, in which the demands from art directors moved rapidly from…

  • Leo and Diane Dillon

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    Lionel Dillon and Diane Sorber met while attending Parsons School of Design in New York in 1954. Their initial rivalry evolved into competitive friendship, a romantic relationship and eventually what has become a lasting marriage and artistic partnership. They call their collaborative artistic approach the “third artist”, viewing themselves as a single artist composed of…

  • Edward Gorey

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    Perhaps you’ve seen his unforgettable drawings in the introductory animation for the PBS Mystery! series (animated by Derkek Lamb); perhaps you’ve seen one or more of his over 75 published books; or perhaps you’ve somehow encountered stray examples of his wonderfully eccentric pen drawings, filled with enigmatic figures in long coats or longer dresses, as…

  • MicroVisions 4 Auction

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    As I mentioned in my article last month about the MicroVisions 4 auction in support of the Society of Illustrators Scholarship Fund, the auction of several small original pieces by top science fiction and fantasy illustrators is now in progress. You can find additional details in Irene Gallo’s MicroVisions auction article on Tor.com. The small…