A retrospective of the world of book illustrations

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Welcome to the Golden Age -

A retrospective of the world of book illustrations. The Golden Age is considered the pinnacle of book illustration and spanned the mid 1800s to the 1930s. It encompassed the works of George Cruickshank, Richard Doyle, Walter Crane, Randolph Caldecott, Kate Greenway Howard Pyle, N.C. Wyeth, Arthur Rackham, Edmund Dulac, Kay Neilsen, Tasha Tudor, Sidney Sime and many, many more. This blog will explore an area of art that has long captivated imaginations, and share illustrations of the gruesome and fearsome, the mysterious and magical, and the simply wondrous.

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