Philip Gough
Bessie Pease Gutmann
Born on April 8, 1876 in Philadelphia, PA to Horace Collins Pease, a tobacco salesman, and Margaretta Darrach Young, a young Bessie Collins Pease Gutmann showed an early interest in art.
After graduating from high school at the age of sixteen, she attended the Philadelphia School of Design for Women from 1893 to 1894, where the emphasis was on both professional and fine art education. Gutmann later attended the New York School of art from 1896 to 1898 and the Art Students League from 1899 to 1901.
Gutmann's career started slowing with commissions for portrait sketches, illustrating local newspaper advertisements, etc. Not content with these small jobs or with the opportunities available to a woman of the day, she persisted. It was not until 1903, when the Gutmann brothers, Hellmuth and Bernhard, hired her as a commercial artist, that she found her niche. They had started the art print firm, Gutmann and Gutmann, the previous year, and found their relationship with the ambitious artist to be financially and personally satisfying. So much so, that on July 14, 1906 Hellmuth and Bessie married, putting an end to the predictions of spinsterhood for Bessie.
Her first childrens book was A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1905. More books followed, including an especially lovely 1907 version of Carroll Lewis's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, but by 1912, destiny was calling.
Children soon followed after the Gutmann's marriage and, in them, Alice, Lucille and John, Gutmann found her inspiration. The critics and the public soon took notice and art prints of her endearing children soon graced the walls of many nurseries. Her work also appeared on postcards, calendars, and periodicals such as Pictorial Review, McCalls, Chicago Sunday Tribune, and the Washington Post.
Gutmann's heyday was in the 1920s and 1930s, but the cruelties of World War II brought an age of innocence quickly to an end, and a decline to Gutmann's popularity. A shortage of good quality paper and adequate labor during the war also hindered production. By 1947, Gutmann decided to stop producing art, after almost fifty years and over six hundred art prints to her credit, because of failing eyesight. The next year, after Hellmuth's death, Gutmann and Gutmann was sold.
Gutmann died on September 29, 1960 in Centerport, New York. After her death, three childrens books were published which included images from her art prints and anthologies of poems or songs. Her winning art prints of endearing children are still as admired as ever and, with the recent formation of a national organization to promote her art, should be for a long time to come.
Franz Haacken (1964)
Michael Hague
One of America's foremost childrens illustrators, including wind in the willows, the velveteen rabbit and peter pan. He also collaborated with his wife Kathleen. Lovely. illustrations on his website, take a look
Oliver Herford
A few quotes:
"There is no time like the pleasant."
"Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure."
"The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scots as a joke, but the Scots haven't seen the joke yet."
“A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's. She changes it more often.”
“Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.”
“Many are called but few get up.”
“Tact is to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.”
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Ink and Pencil (19??) Herford - 001A
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St. Nicholas, "Indignant" (1917) Herford - 002
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Greg Hildebrandt
Unicorn Publishing House, 1990
Greg and Tim Hildebrandt are internationally known illustrators. They are best known for painting Fantasy art and Sci-Fi art. They have painted the 1977,'78,'79 JRR Tolkien Lord of the Rings Calendars, as well as the original Star Wars movie posters. They have worked in many other fields as well including Comic Books, doing various trading card sets and comic covers. The still work doing book covers, commercial art, advertising art and private commissions.
Robert Hogfeldt
Illustration: Trolls taking aim at dozing angel in a tree
Robert Hogfeldt was a renowned Swedish illustrator (1894 - 1986).
Janice Holland
1913 (Washington, DC)- 1962
Rosemary Honeybourne, McClelland & Stewart 1969, Purnell 1969)
John Huehnergarth,(Winston 1952 New York)
Gwynedd Hudson (Hodder & Stoughton 1922)
Jackson.A.E (Henry Frowde 1914)
Dudley Jarrett ( Reader's Library 1928)
Janet Johnstone (with Anne Graham, World Distributors 1968)
Janet Grahame Johnstone (1 June 1928- 1979) and Anne Grahame Johnstone (1 Jun 1928 - 25 May 1998) were twin sisters and British children's book illustrators best known for their delicate, detailed prolific artwork and for illustrating Dodie Smith's classic book "The Hundred and One Dalmations."
Early life
The twins were born in 1928 to British muralist and costume designer Doris Zinkeisen and her husband, Captain Grahame Johnstone. They attended the Heathfield Schoolin Ascot during World War ii; their artistic bent nurtured both at home and at school. Later, they attended St Martins in London, where they studied period clothing styles. Lifelong friends, neither woman ever married.
An image from the story the Princess and the Frog, from Dean's Book of Fairytales.
Becoming popular children's illustrators
The Johnstone sisters' popularity took off in the early 1950s, when they were noticed by publishers and acquired a growing reputation as talented illustrators. They always worked together, passing drawings back and forth across their studio until both twins were satisfied with the final outcome. Janet specialized in animals and birds. Anne focused on the period costumes that so dominated their work. Because of their symbiotic collaboration, until the death of Janet in 1979, there was never a book illustrated under either one of their names alone.
The first important book the twins worked on was The Hundred and One Dalmations by Dodie Smith, who was already a very successful playwright and author. In 1956 she invited them to illustrate her first children's book, and it was an immediate success, captivating parents and children alike. Eventually, Smith's book was made into a feature-length animated film by Walt Disney.
The twins' further success with later Smith books, The Starlight Barking and The Midnight Kittens, made them the most widely recognized illustrators of children's books in England at the time. Their business association developed into an enduring friendship until Smith died in November 1990.
Work in early television
Although not widely remembered, the twins at an early stage of their career worked extensively in British television, during the formative years of children's programming. They produced a considerable amount of artwork for programs including "Tai Lu", "Andy Pandy," and "The Flower Pot Men." These programs were very popular with British children during the 1950s and 1960s.
Their prolific career
Over the course of their career together, the sisters illustrated more than 100 books. These included classic fairytales by Hans Christian Andersen, the Brothers Grimm, J.M.Barrie, Charles Kingsley, a series based on Biblical tales, legends from Greece and Rome, as well as a large variety of rhyme and modern story-collections. The Johnstones also illustrated many of Paul Gallico's magical children's stories, working on Manxmouse, The Man who was Magic, and Miracle in the Wilderness.Their most collectible book to date is Enid Blyton's 1979 Dean book, called, "The Enchanted Wood."
The end of an era
In 1979, Janet died in a tragic car accident, leaving Anne alone for the first time in her life. Anne found herself unexpectedly responsible for the entire business enterprise previously shared with her sister, and managed to honor all of outstanding commissions. She had to master the techniques for drawing and painting animals, particularly horses, which had been the specialty of her sister. On her own in the 1980s, Anne produced many fine illustrations. Two particularly notable books she illustrated were the editions of Peter Pan and The Water Babies, published by Award. Each year she also produced Christmas cards for Royles, which were very popular. Other projects included designs for limited edition Christmas jigsaw puzzles for the British bookstore chain Waddingtons, and two books she wrote and illustrated about Santa Claus. Over the years, she became an expert in 19th-century military uniforms and often worked as an heraldic artist through the College of Arms. Anne died of cancer on May 25, 1998 at the age of 69.
Gertrude Kay (Lippincott 1923)
Moritz Kennel (Elsevier Phaidon, London 1975, Crowell, New York 1975)
Gordon King (Purnell 1976)
M.L.Kirk (Stokes 1904)
Maria L. Kirk is another woman illustrator from the early 20th century. She did some lovely book illustrations, but we know very little about her at this time. One of her best know
commission was an edition of Alice and Wonderland (1904-07). Kirk is one of the hundereds of artists which have illustrated Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass since the late 19th century. Notably Alice in the Kirk drawings wears a gold and not a blue dress. We also note some lovely illustrations for Mopsa the Fairy (1910). A HBC reader tells us that she also did some wonderful illustrations for Pinocchio that published in 1920.
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