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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Welcome to this weeks thread it one of our special weeks and this time we are looking at the work of book illustrators . It can be any book fictional or factual what I would ask is that you don’t include posters in particular railway poster as we will be having a week covering these in the coming months. I’m opening with a mix of well known illustrators Ana one relatively unknown, but over the week I will try to introduce some little know artist but please do post any artist you would like to introduce.  I have picked four start off the week . 1 Peter Barrett 1935. 2 Quentin Blake 1932. 3 Pauline Baynes 1922  - 2008  4 M I Attwell 1879 - 1964
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Andrew Roles

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Great idea for a thread. Here are a few  from the great Shirley Hughes who illustrated the books she wrote. Winifred Shirley Hughes CBE (16 July 1927 – 25 February 2022) was an English author and illustrator. She wrote more than fifty books, which have sold more than 11.5 million copies, and illustrated more than two hundred.

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Tessa Gwynne

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Shirley Hughes books and illustrations captured the innocence of childhood so beautifully. I love her work. I also like all of Dixie’s selection above. 
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Lewis Cooper

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A limitless subject, like all art I guess.  Loved the art featured so far, and Shirley Hughes is a genius.  Book illustration is top of my personal art hit parade.   A prized possession is Moby Dick, illustrated by Anton Lomaev a brilliant Russian illustrator of many books.... I've featured him before in another thread, and make no apologies for doing so again.  Here's a few more from 'Moby Dick' (Pegasus books published an English  version). He also illustrates fairy tales.  No prizes for guessing what this is... Illustration for Sherlock Holmes...

Jenny Harris

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I also like the artists already featured, especially Shirley Hughes whose work I wasn’t familiar with.  My two favourite illustrators, though, are Arthur Rackham and Norman Thelwell whose work we have already looked at. Thelwell’s cartoons always brighten up my day!

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Lewis Cooper

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Yes Jenny, two of my favorite artists, I can't get enough of their work. As I wander through reams of illustrated art, I occasionally stumble upon surprises.  Here are a few book illustrations by famous artists. Andy Warhol was apparently a successful illustrator before he found fame as a pop artist.  From 1958... David Hockney illustrated six fairy tales in 1969... Hockney is one of those artists whose work either blows my socks off, or leaves me wondering why he's so famous.  I must confess the above illustration doesn't do much for me, but it's still of interest. In 1935, Henri Matisse did illustrations for 'Ulysses' by James Joyce... Edouard Manet illustrated Edgar Allen Poe's 'The Raven' in 1875... None of these particularly light my fire as far as illustration goes, but I thought they might be of interest.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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S e superb examples posted already, we could run a thread of illustrators for months I have a book with over two thousand name . Today selection I having done a bio as you  can discover this information online . 1) Edgar Ainsworth 1906-1975. Helen Craig 1934. Reginald William Gammon 1894-1997
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Andrew Roles

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Terrific stuff - I spotted Edgar Ainsworth in an exhibition last year and was immediately impressed. Another good illustrator was Edward Ardizzone - from Wikipedia: Edward Jeffrey Irving Ardizzone, CBE RA (16 October 1900 – 8 November 1979), who sometimes signed his work "DIZ", was a British painter, printmaker and war artist, and the author and illustrator of books, many of them for children. One of my favourite books from my childhood:

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Probably in the wrong place, but I get a tad confused these days ,  it’s me eyes you know. I wish I still had all of my Giles annuals.

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Sorry nonsense

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Alfred Bestall was the Rupert Bear illustrator from 1935 onwards.  As a child I loved Rupert Bear and looked forward to getting the new annual each year.

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One of my younger brothers collected the Rupert books as a nipper. Ralph Steadman, the anarchic British artist, has illustrated many books in his unique style.  Below, his story about Leonardo Da Vinci. Among many others, he did a version of 'Animal Farm.'
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