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Hardback book cover of "Winnie-the-Pooh" by A.A. Milne with decorations by E.H. Shepard, featuring illustrations of Pooh hanging from a balloon and surrounded by bees, and Christopher Robin and rabbits trying to pull Pooh out of Rabbit's hole.

Blue hardback book cover for "The House at Pooh Corner" by A.A. Milne, illustrated with E. H. Shepard's line drawings in red of characters from the stories on the cover.

Check out more of Shepard's illustrations & the stories in each of the 1926 & 1928 books. Both are in the public domain & in our collections. 📕📗

🧸🎈🐝 1926 👉 archive.org/details/winn...
🧸🐯🍯 1928 👉 archive.org/details/the-...

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Two children, a boy & girl both wearing gas masks, hold hands. From Swann Galleries: “During the Second World War, private companies issued propaganda posters to express their patriotism and involvement with the war effort. These private promotions were printed in much smaller numbers than the posters issued by the U.S. Government, making surviving examples extremely rare. Perhaps the most famous non-government poster of the Second World War is the iconic female war worker "Rosie the Riveter," printed by the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. Certainly, the next most famous is this chilling, almost surreal image published by Kroger. The grim tableau, almost guaranteed to terrify parents of school-age children, was likely very effective in getting citizens to invest more money in the war effort. This is one in a series of posters published by the grocery chain, each one a startling photographic composition of a nightmarish, what-if scenario.”

Unknown illustrator, “Dear God, Keep Them Safe!/Buy War Bonds and Stamps,” 1942, 35x47 inches, 90x119 cm, published by Kroger Grocery & Baking Company, photo: Swann Auction Galleries. More info in ALT. #illustration #illustrationhistory #propaganda #worldwar2 #halloween .

A person (male or female, hard to tell), with close-cropped hair and dressed in a white clown costume reminiscent of Pierrot or Pulcinella. The figure is on their knees painting (or carving?) a Jack-o-Lantern.

By Anne Estelle Rice (1877–1959), cover of The Saturday Evening Post, October 29, 1904, Halloween issue. She was an illustrator for many magazines, including Collier’s, Harper’s, and The Saturday Evening Post.. #arthistory #illustrationhistory #illustration #womanartist #womenartists

A woman’s hands hold up a mirror with the reflection of her face. The handle and rim of the mirror are decorated with pearls. The face is pale, with blue eyes, pink lips, and one pearl earring visible. Reflected behind her a furnished room with dusky pink walls and lamp shade. At the top of the illustration appears the word Vogue in a stylized circular font.

By Georges Lepape (1887–1971), “Le Miroir,” illustration for Vogue Magazine, November 15, 1927, watercolor and ink on paper, 387x279 mm (15 1/4x11 inches), photo: Swann Auction Galleries, September 29, 2016. #arthistory #illustration #illustrationhistory

Overall pink palette. A woman sits at a vanity. Arm outstretched, she is holding a flower.

Magazine advertisement by Coles Phillips (1880–1927). #illustration #illustrationhistory #art

The artists I’ll talk about—Lear, Burgess, Duval, W.H. Robinson, to name a few—weren’t just illustrating nonsense texts. They helped build a visual language that would shape the experimental picturebooks of the postmodern era.

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three little pigs carrying a ladder

But this one is credited to “Max” — and I can’t find any info on who he really was.

Does anyone know who Max was? Or where I might look to find out more?
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A movie poster, in French, for the movie The Bride of Frankenstein with Boris Karloff and Elsa Lancaster in costume. Black and white with a deep red background.

This is very fun: Bride of Frankenstein (La Fiancée de Frankenstein), French poster for the film’s re-release. Photo: Bonhams Los Angeles, 6 June 2023. #posterart #frankenstein #filmposter #illustrationhistory #illustrationart #illustration

One of the most comprehensive studies that I can find on this topic... Any other similar suggestions?
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Somewhat stylized illustration art: a woman, shoulders up, holding a pink flower. She wears some kind of head covering, sheer around the eyes and cheeks. Kind of yin-yang design, pink on one side, gray on the other, swirl of gray over pink at the top. Behind her a very stylized white moon? Star?

Cover of Harper's Bazar (yes, they spelled it that way back then, instead of Bazaar), May 1929. Illustration by Art Deco pioneer Erté (Romain de Tirtoff, 1892-1990). #arthistory #illustration #illustrationhistory #ArtDeco

Happy birthday, Hans! You are in good company here. Also, great biography!
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Wonderful!
José Carlos de Brito e Cunha, known as J. Carlos (1884-1950) Brazilian cartoonist, illustrator, and graphic designer, introduced by Pete Beard
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A muscular young man, blond, holding a pole. A white sweater over his shoulders. He’s wearing shorts, and a sleeveless orange t-shirt. By today’s standards there is a whiff of homoeroticism and also a hint of German Fascist art. How audiences interpreted it in 1916? I have no idea.

Art history. By Joseph Christian Leyendecker (1874-1951), The Oarsman, 1916, oil & pencil on canvas,
30 by 21 inches (76.2 by 53.3 cm), photo Sotheby’s New York, October 2, 2018. Painted for the cover of Collier's Magazine, June 24, 1916 edition. #arthistory #illustration #illustrationhistory

pete beard I had always thought that many illustrators from the past got nothing like the attention they deserved so I decided to make some videos about a few of these almost forgotten talents. The unsung hero...

If you are interested in #illustrationhistory, #childrenbooks #posterdesign this is one of the best ways to spend whatever spare time you may have.

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Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek, a 17th century Dutch scientist, “the father of microbiology”, as depicted by Arnold Lobel in The Microscope (1984) by American poet Maxine Kumin.

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I have such soft spot for Walter Crane and his lush colours.

And yes, this is exactly what leaving the house with four children looks like…

From Walter Crane’s New Toy Book (1873)

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Cat lady goals.

Illustration from Dame Wiggins of Lee and Her Seven Wonderful Cats (1823)

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Some vintage erotica from 1924, illustration by Georges Léonnec for La Vie Parisienne.

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Once upon a time, before Stanley Kubrick and Diane Arbus, twin girls standing side by side in matching outfits was a cute sight, not a creepy one.

Illustration by Kate Greenaway from Mother Goose (1881)

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