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…