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  1. Armstrong, Margaret Margaret Armstrong (1867-1944) was a 19th and early 20th-century American book cover designer, illustrator and author. She is best known for her book covers influenced by Art Nouveau. She also wrote and illustrated the first comprehensive guide to wildflowers of the American West, 'Field Book of Western Wild Flowers' (1915). Margaret Neilson Armstrong was born in 1867 in New York City, the daughter of American diplomat and stained glass artist Maitland Armstrong and his wife Helen, wh...
  2. Betts, Ethel Franklin Ethel Franklin Betts Bains (1877-1959) was an American illustrator primarily of children's books during the Golden Age of American Illustration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Ethel Franklin Betts was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the youngest daughter of doctor Thomas Betts and housekeeper Alice Whelan. Illustrator Anna Whelan Betts was her older sister. Betts attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts before enrolling in illustrator and teacher Howard Pyle's...
  3. Crane, Walter Walter Crane (1845-1915) was an influential English artist and illustrator, renowned for his vast contribution to children's book illustration and also the arts and crafts movement in the late 19th century. Born in August 1845 in Liverpool, Crane was the second son of the portrait painter Thomas Crane. He displayed artistic talent from a young age and was apprenticed to the wood engraver William James Linton, which significantly shaped his career. Crane's work is characterised by its...
  4. Denslow, William W. William Wallace Denslow (1856-1915) was an American illustrator and caricaturist remembered for his collaboration with author L. Frank Baum, especially for his illustrations for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Born in Philadelphia to a tobacco wholesaler, Denslow spent brief periods at the National Academy of Design and the Cooper Union in New York but was largely self-educated and self-trained. In the 1880s, he travelled about the United States as an artist and newspaper reporter. Denslow acquir...
  5. Gruelle, Johnny John Barton Gruelle (1880-1938) was an American artist, political cartoonist, children's book and comics author, illustrator, and storyteller. He is best known as the creator of Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy dolls and as the author/illustrator of dozens of books. He also created the Beloved Belindy doll. Gruelle also contributed cartoons and illustrations to at least ten newspapers, four major news syndicates, and more than a dozen national magazines. He was the son of Hoosier Group painte...
  6. Gutmann, Bessie Pease Bessie Pease Gutmann (1876-1960) was an American artist and illustrator, most noted for her paintings of infants and young children. Gutmann was born Bessie Collins Pease in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and raised in Mount Holly, New Jersey. After graduating high school, Gutmann studied at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women. From 1896 to 1898, she attended the New York School of Art (later Parsons, The New School), and attended the Art Students League of New York from 1899 to 1901. G...
  7. Hassam, Childe Frederick Childe Hassam (1859-1935) was a prominent American Impressionist painter, celebrated for his vibrant depictions of urban and coastal scenes. Born in 1859 in Dorchester, Massachusetts, Hassam demonstrated an early interest in art. He had his first lessons in drawing and watercolour while attending The Mather School, but his parents took little notice of his obvious talent. By 1880, his father arranged a job for him in the accounting department of publisher Little, Brown & Company...
  8. Herkomer, Hubert von Sir Hubert von Herkomer CVO RA (1849-1914), born as Hubert Herkomer, was a Bavarian-born British painter, pioneering film-director, and composer. Though a very successful portrait artist, especially of men, he is mainly remembered for his earlier works that took a realistic approach to the conditions of life of the poor. Herkomer was born on 26 May 1849 at Waal, in the Kingdom of Bavaria, the son of Lorenz Herkomer (1825-1888), a wood-carver of great ability, and his wife Josephine Herkomer,...
  9. Herford, Oliver Oliver Herford (1860-1935) was an Anglo-American writer, artist and illustrator, regarded as the American Oscar Wilde, known for his pithy bon mots and skewed sense of humour. He was born in Sheffield, England in 1860 to Rev. Brooke Herford and Hannah Hankinson Herford. Oliver's father, a Unitarian minister, moved the family to Chicago in 1876 and Boston in 1882. Oliver attended Antioch College in Ohio from 1877 to 1879. Later he studied art at the Slade School in London and the Académie...
  10. Hazenplug, Frank Frank S. Hazenplug (1873-1931) was an American artist, engraver, typographer, poster artist, and illustrator of books. He is one of the pioneers of Art Nouveau. Frank S. Hazenplug was the last child of Jane and Henry Hazenplug, a furniture-maker in Dixon, Illinois. He began his career in Chicago, where a new artistic scene emerged in the early 1890s. By 1894, Hazenplug (a.k.a. Hazen after 1911) designed books for the Chicago firm of Stone & Kimball, and remained with its successor, Herber...
  11. Jones, Ernest Harold Ernest Harold Jones (1877-1911) was a British artist and excavator who identified early clues to the location of Tutankhamun's tomb in Egypt. He contracted tuberculosis and in 1904 he decided to go to Egypt to relieve his symptoms. He worked with archaeologist John Garstang, of Liverpool, from 1904–07 and then for Theodore M. Davis and Emma Andrews from 1907-11. He died of tuberculosis in Luxor, Egypt, in March 1911. Jones was born in Barnsley, South Yorkshire on 7 March 1877 to William J...
  12. Humphrey, Maud Maud Humphrey(1868-1940) was a commercial illustrator, watercolourist and suffragette from the United States. She was the mother of the actor Humphrey Bogart and frequently used her young son as a model. Maud was born in Rochester, New York in 1868 to John Perkins Humphrey and Frances V. Dewey Churchill. She studied at the Art Students League of New York and the Julian Academy in Paris. It was there that she studied with James McNeil Whistler, an American artist based mainly in the UK. She ma...
  13. Kauffer, Edward McKnight Edward McKnight Kauffer (1890-1954) was an American artist and graphic designer who lived for much of his life in the UK. He worked mainly in poster art, but was also active as a painter, book illustrator and theatre designer. Edward Leland Kauffer was born on 14 December 1890, in Great Falls, Montana. By 1910 he had moved to San Francisco working as a bookseller and studying art at the California School of Design from 1910 to 1912. At around this time Professor Joseph McKnight of the Univers...
  14. Kirk, Maria Maria Louise Kirk (1860-1938), usually credited as M.L. Kirk or Maria L. Kirk, was an American painter and illustrator of more than fifty books, most of them for children. Her notable work includes illustrations for a US edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in 1904, for the first edition of 'The Secret Garden', and for several books by L.M. Montgomery and Johanna Spyri. Born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Kirk studied art in Philadelphia at the School of Design for Women and t...
  15. Leyendecker, Joseph Joseph Christian Leyendecker (1874-1951) was a prominent American illustrator and painter, renowned for his distinctive artistic style that played a crucial role in shaping early 20th-century visual culture. Born in 1874 in Germany, Leyendecker moved to the United States with his family as a child. He quickly made a name for himself in the world of commercial art, particularly for his work that graced the covers of magazines, advertisements and posters. Leyendecker's style is characterise...
  16. Bradley, William H. William Henry Bradley (1868-1962) was an American Art Nouveau illustrator, artist and film director. Nicknamed the "Dean of American Designers" by The Saturday Evening Post, he was the highest-paid American artist of the early 20th century. Bradley was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Aaron Bradley and Sarah Rowland. At the age of 12 he obtained a job as an apprentice for a weekly newspaper, the Iron Agitator, later known as the Iron Ore, in Ishpeming, Michigan. He had moved there wit...