The Golden Age of Illustration Storybook Artists

The Golden Age of Illustration

The Golden Age of Illustration is believed to be dated from around 1880 to early 20th century. It is today marked as an era where unprecedented excellence and production of illustrative arts in printed media be it books, magazines, or advertising posters. The period was driven with the huge advancement of printing technology, that enabled inexpensive and accurate reproduction of arts and printed texts. This has resulted a strong surge in public demand for books and magazines, specifically children orientated books also known as “toy books”. Publishing houses were mushrooming and thousands of new books were released annually along with such strong demand, authors and artist were in great demand. The illustrative works from these Golden Age artists were highly sourced after today and the book classics continue to inspire millions of children today.

Featuring art collection from the Book Illustrators below:-

• > Dugald S Walker (1883 — 1937) American Illustrator
• > Edward J Detmold (1883 1957) English Illustrator
• > Erich Shutz (1886 – 1937) American Illustrator
• > Franklin Booth (1874 – 1948) American Illustrator
• > Frederick Richardson (1862 -1937) American Illustrator
• > Georg Scholz (1890 – 1945) German Illustrator
• > Gordon Ross (1873 – 1946) American Illustrator
• > Hans Tegner (1853 – 1932) Danish Illustrator
• > Heinrich Lefler (1863 – 1919) Austrian Illustrator
• > Henrich Lefler (1863 – 1919) & Joseph Urban (1872 – 1933) Austrian Illustrator
• > Herbert Cole (1867 – 1930) English Illustrator
• > Ivan Bilibin (1876 – 1942) Russian Illustrator
• > J M Conde (unknown) American Illustrator
• > John Bauer (1882 – 1918) Swedish Illustrator
• > John D Battten (1860 – 1932) English Illustrator
• > Maurice Greiffenhagen (1862 – 1931) English Illustrator
• > Monro Scott Orr (1874-1955) English Illustrator
• > Rene Bull (1872 – 1942) English Illustrator
• > S T Graner & A Audet (unknown)
• > Sidney H Sime (1867 – 1941) English Illustrator
• > Thomas Mackenzie (1887 – 1944) English Illustrator
• > Virginia Sterett (1900 – 1931) American Illustrator
• > Vladimir Kirin (unknown)
• > William Timlin (1892 – 1943) English Illustrator

Instant Download Contents:-

• > 1,600 high quality pictures
• > Large pictures average at 1,700 x 2,400 pixels wide, 300 dpi
• > File format: JPG
• > All unique and no duplication of same picture
• > Sorted artworks by Artists
• > Fast instant download after purchase

Some random samples from the collection:-

feat-storybook-artists (1) Edward Detmold Artworks (24)

feat-storybook-artists (2) Munro S Orr

feat-storybook-artists (3) Henrich Lefler

feat-storybook-artists (4) Ivan Bibilin

feat-storybook-artists (5) Frederick Richardson

feat-storybook-artists (6) John Bauer

feat-storybook-artists (7) Thomas Mackenzie

feat-storybook-artists (8) Rene Bull

feat-storybook-artists (9) Virginia Sterett

feat-storybook-artists (10) William Timlin

feat-storybook-artists (11) Graner & Audet

feat-storybook-artists (12) Hans Tegner

feat-storybook-artists (13) Dugald S Walker

feat-storybook-artists (14) Herbert Cole

feat-storybook-artists (15) John D Batten

* downsized images for faster loading here, actual downloads are in higher res :)