Illustrator
Arthur Rackham
Twisting trees, small fairies and soft watercolor washes over fine pen line.
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The life
1867-1939Born London, England
Arthur Rackham was one of twelve children and worked as an insurance clerk in London while studying part-time at the Lambeth School of Art. He began as a newspaper illustrator and then drew for gift books such as Grimm's fairy tales (1900). His color plates for Rip Van Winkle (1905) were reproduced with the new color-separation printing, which kept his watercolors accurate, and they made him famous. A year later he painted 49 color plates for J. M. Barrie's Kensington Gardens stories (1906), full of twisted trees, fairies and London parkland. He went on to illustrate A Midsummer Night's Dream (1908) and won gold medals in Milan and Barcelona. Picturepops cards use his 1906 Kensington Gardens plates.