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History of Illustration
Dr. Martin Illustration Midterm, UCF
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Art History
03/02/2011
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  • J.C Leyendecker
  • Best of the Leyendecker brothers
  • studied in Paris
  • 400+ magazine covers
  • 322 covers for Saturday Post
  • Comissioned by Arrow Shirt Company
  • Apex of career in 1920s
  • Decline in 1930s
  • 1943: last cover for Saturday Post
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  • Norman Rockwell
  • best loved and best known American illustrator
  • Saturday Evening Post
  • Americans doing daily activities
  • Calander works: the four seasons
  • Illustrated just about everything (booklets, sheet music, stamps, posters)
  • "Breaking Home Ties"
  • dies in 1978
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  • Maxfield Parrish
  • Day Break: his most popular work (still popular as prints)
  • immense murals in offices & hotels
  • posters & magazine covers (Life)
  • illustrates Arabian Nights & Knickerbocker's History of New York
  • very distinctive color arrangement
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  • Charles Dana Gibson
  • Gibson girls
  • Life magazine

 
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  • Elizabeth Shippen Green
  • Worked for Harpers

 
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  • Jessie Willcox Smith
  • Mother Goose
  • Worked for Harpers
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  • Henry Hutt
  • Ilustrations for Life Magazine
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  • Howard Pyle
  • 1900: sucess in color printing
  • Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
  • Worked at Harpers

 
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  • E.W. Kemble
  • Huckleberry Fin
  • Worked at Harpers

 
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  • A.B. Frost
  • home spun style
  • Worked for Harpers
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  • Edwin Austin Abbey
  • famous for pen style
  • worked at Harpers
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  • Fredrick Reemington
  • influenced the myth of the West/gives it an image
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  • George Catlin
  • Dean of western artist
  • study & record the life & tradition of Indian tribes
  • welcomed by the Indians
  • created a complete record of Indian life
  • writes a book of 400 illustrations of Indian life
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  • Thomas Nast
  • @15: drawing professionally for Franklesley's illustrated magazine
  • strenght: political cartoons
  • sketches either destoryed during printing process, thrown away or disentigrated with time.
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  • Winslow Homer
  • @21 was a free lance illustrator for Harpers
  • did illustrations of the Civil War
  • Became the most famous illustrator of wartime
  • sketched camp life
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  • Felix O.C. Darling
  • illustration adored by the Brittish
  • influenced by Brittish and German illustrators/had no American tradition to draw on
  • he is the creation of American illustration; GRANDFATHER OF ILLUSTRATION
  • all of Washington Irvings major works
  • only one who illustrated all 32 of Cooper's works
  • illustrated Dickens and Walter Scott
  • Harper's Illuminated Bible
  • Strapher's edition of Shakesphear
  • self taught, career lasted 40 years
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  • James Ottobon
  • illustrated the birds then cut and pasted them onto backgrounds illustrated by other artists
  • origionals in the Natural Museum
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  • Edward Penfield
  • hint: cats
  • magazine illustrator & art posters
  • international fame (color posters)
  • new style & direction for poster art
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  • Will Bradley
  • late victorian period
  • decorative illustration reawaken
  • american
  • The Wonder Box Stories
  • Edward Penfield, Louis Rhead, Will Bradley: launch poster movement in America
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  • Aubrey Beardsley
  • self taught artist
  • influenced by wattue and kate greenaway
  • The Death of Arthor
  • major book illustrator
  • They Uellow Book
  • small faced women & full bodies
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  • Edward Burn Jones
  • influenced by Duer
  • Kelmscott press: very notable/remembered
  • illustrated Chaucer
  • revival of manuscript
  • 2nd generation preraphaelite
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  • Kate Greenaway
  • Under the Window
  • attended Royal Academy of Art
  • loves rual village life; dainty watercolors
  • a draftsman first
  • The Fox and the Crane; The Pipe Piper
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  • Randolph Caldecott
  • Brittish Illustrator
  • "the fewer the lines, the less error committed"
  • humorous illustration
  • The Babes in the Wood
  • Old Christmas by Irving
  • Major book illustrator
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  • Walter Crane
  • one of the best English illustrators in 19th c
  • influenced by John Rustken
  • more than anyone else in his day he emphaisized the decorative
  • Lady of Sharlot & Fairy Queen
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  • Arthur Rackham
  • Rip Van Wrinkle 1904
  • Alice in Wonderland 1907
  • inspired by Duer
  • Edwardian period; leading decorative illustrator of period
  • Loruve shows Rackham's illustrations
  • gold metals in Milan & Barcelona
  • pen & ink style is unique
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  • William Blake
  • Songs of Innocence: one of the greatest contributions made to English child's literature
  • The Tyger: most vivid illustration
  • copper etching, developes relief etching
  • Book of Job: Blake's masterpiece; literary illustration at its finest
  • Paradise Lost
  • precursor to Romantic Movement
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  • William Hogarth
  • social and political satire
  • England stands alone in the developement of satire
  • comical characture