Golden age of illustration

The Illustrated Press, Inc. is raising funds for The Golden Age on Kickstarter! This new hardcover book showcases some of the finest artworks from the Golden Age of Illustration, circa 1880-1950.

KAY RASMUS NIELSEN | Danish | Copenhagen, Denmark 1886 – Los Angeles, California 1957 | Art Nouveau. Illustration to “East of the Sun and West of the Moon” by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen & Jørgen Engebretsen Moe, 1914

Jessie Willcox Smith was one of the most prominent female illustrators in the U.S, during the famed Golden Age of Illustration.

The Flying Islands of the Night. Title sounds interesting, doesn't it? The story is a fantasy, written in the form of a play, by American poet James Whitcomb Riley. (1849-1916) I am a great fan of a fantastic story, and I will not pretend to have read this—but the format alone removes it from standard comparisons. The story carries a feeling of Shakespeare colliding with Jules Verne. The writing is © 1891, but what makes this something worth commenting on, is an edition that was put out by…

COVER ART for The Fairy Tale Magazine's article: "The Golden Age of Illustration: The Art of Arthur Rackham." Click the link to see read it!

A Midsummer Night's Dream is well known comedy written by William Shakespeare (1564-1616). It's loaded with typical situations where one intrigue leads to another, errors are unavoidable, everything bursts with passion and the spectators get a happy ending after all. Although main characters are mainly humans, fairies play extremely important roles. But our intention is not an analysis. We'll rather focus on illustrations produced by Arthur Rackham (1867-1939), one of leading artists of his…

One of my favorite Parrish's to have on the wall. We have a print hanging by our books. "He looked up among the knotted branches and green leaves, and into the mysterious heart of the old tree." ___ Maxfield Parrish [American painter and Golden Age Illustrator, 1870-1966] Biography: www.bpib.com/illustrat/parrish.htm __ scan clean-up by plumleaves