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.

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…

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!

The poems inspired by old Czech myths and illustrated by Artuš Scheiner

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

For over thirty years Nell Brinkley’s beautiful girls pirouetted, waltzed, Charlestoned, vamped and shimmied their way through the pages of William Randolph Hearst’s newspapers, captivating the American public with their innocent sexuality. This sumptuously designed oversized hardcover collects Brinkley’s breathtakingly spectacular, exquisitely colored full page art from 1913 to 1940. Here are her earliest silent movie serial-inspired adventure series, “Golden Eyes and Her Hero, Bill;” her…

Catskin, one of the endless variants of Donkeyskin, as illustrated by Bluefooted. Link here - http://bluefooted.deviantart.com/

Kay Nielsen is among the greatest artists associated with what is known as "The Golden Age of Illustration" and his works are associated with classic fairy tales, in addition to myths and fables.

vi, 255 p., [9] leaves of plates

"She saw the Lindworm for the first time as he came in and stood by her side." From "Prince Lindworm," from East of the Sun and West of the Moon: Old Tales From the North, illustrated by Danish artist Kay Nielsen (1886-1957), 1914. Taschen 2015 edition.

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The Druid Erin. She is the sister of Eso know as goddess of frost and Felfoth god of winter. Although they are not gods of any sort they are ageless and extremely powerful, able to hold sway over the balance of nature. Illustration by Florence Harrison.

Artus Scheiner