xii, 286 p. incl. illus., plates. 21 cm
Wow. Here's another Arthur Rackham illustrated book I'd never seen before, until I stumbled into it a few days ago. The illustration, Dance of Spring, is gorgeous, with both grace in the figures and unexpected cartoonish humor in the flying insect-like winged creature in the upper right hand corner wearing a caricature of Rackham's face, along with the Arthur Rackham "self portraits" repeating in the border framing the painting, as printed in the book, Snickerty Nick and the Giant by Julia Ellsworth Ford. Snickerty Nick is a play for children with a giant named Baron Bill-Arron Bomberrum, a dwarf named Snickerty Nick, The Little Boy, The Children, Winter's Gnomes, and Spring's Faeries, published in 1919 by Moffat, Yard & Company. Quoting the author from the foreward: "To Arthur Rackham I tender my most sincere thanks whose magic touch as in Peter Pan, Grimm's Faery Tales, and Undine, making real all faeries and gnomes, endears all child life to grown-ups as well as to children." ~ Julia Ellsworth Ford Arthur Rackham ~ 1919 Snickerty Nick and the Giant Dance of Spring Arthur Rackham ~ 1919 Snickerty Nick and the Giant Dance of Winter and Gnomes Arthur Rackham ~ 1919 Snickerty Nick and the Giant The Little Boy I can't say I like all of the characters in this little play, as depicted by Rackham. Snickerty and the Giant, based it seems on an aspect of Rackham's own visage, do not appeal to me, but I enjoy the children, and the woman who is Spring. Rackham himself also appears as The Sandman. Like Rackham's illustration of the mermaids in my earlier post featuring his work for the book, Imagina, I get the sense Rackham probably had a lot of fun creating these images, perhaps relaxing his exacting standards to capture a purely playful quality. There must be satirical or ironic significance to the illustration of the great Cornish ogre. All of the illustrations capture great expression, characterization and movement. Dance of Spring is my favorite, and the woman in Spring reminds me a bit of the bewitchery the viewer experiences, as in viewing Rackham's characterizations of Undine, though Spring is more mature and the two women look nothing alike. I'll be featuring and discussing my favorite illustrations from Undine in a future post. Click each image for great detail.
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Rie Cramer (1887-1977) was a Dutch children's book illustrator. She moved to the Netherlands from Indonesia when she was nine years old, and studied at the Art Academy in the Hague. I just discovered her illustrations a few days ago. Fascinated, I am still in the process of researching her life and her work. I've included fourteen of the twenty-three full page color illustrations here at the Art of Narrative along with the lovely book cover and the plain but informative title page. I'm charmed by these illustrations. They are reminding me of everything from Anne Anderson and Virginia Sterrett to Kay Nielsen, and even Arthur Rackham and Gustaf Tenggren, though they are completely her own. The complete illustrations for this edition of Grimm's Fairy Tales are available to view in their original context along with each story by clicking the title link. You can also enjoy the illustrations for each chapter heading for stories with full page art and many more, like Haensel and Grethel. The cover inset illustration is from the story, King Thrushbeard, where Cramer flatters not only the charismatic main characters, but also the little boy servant who is both handsome and winsome. The full page art for this story is included in the body of the book. My favorite illustrations include the ones for Little Brother and Little Sister, The White Snake, The Six Swans, Rumpelstiltskin, The Elves and the Shoemaker, Snow-White and Rose-Red, The Goose Girl at the Well, Iron John; and especially the little star children from The Seven Swans, and The Gold-Children where the little maiden pledges her heart to the roughshod man. Click each image for great detail. Rie Cramer ~ Grimm's Fairy Tales ~ 1927 Rie Cramer ~ Grimm's Fairy Tales ~ 1927 Rie Cramer ~ Grimm's Fairy Tales ~ 1927 Little Brother and Little Sister Rie Cramer ~ Grimm's Fairy Tales ~ 1927 The White Snake Rie Cramer ~ Grimm's Fairy Tales ~ 1927 The Seven Ravens Rie Cramer ~ Grimm's Fairy Tales ~ 1927 The Elves and the Shoemaker Rie Cramer ~ Grimm's Fairy Tales ~ 1927 Iron John Rie Cramer ~ Grimm's Fairy Tales ~ 1927 The Six Swans Rie Cramer ~ Grimm's Fairy Tales ~ 1927 The Gold-Children Rie Cramer ~ Grimm's Fairy Tales ~ 1927 Rumpelstiltskin Rie Cramer ~ Grimm's Fairy Tales ~ 1927 The Golden Bird Rie Cramer ~ Grimm's Fairy Tales ~ 1927 The Goose-Girl Rie Cramer ~ Grimm's Fairy Tales ~ 1927 Snow-White and Rose-Red Rie Cramer ~ Grimm's Fairy Tales ~ 1927 The Goose Girl at the Well Rie Cramer ~ Grimm's Fairy Tales ~ 1927 The Nix of the Mill Pond Rie Cramer ~ Grimm's Fairy Tales ~ 1927 Maid Maleen Top
As ambiguous as she is hideous, Baba Yaga is an anomaly. In Slavic folklore, Baba Yaga is both a maternal, mother nature figure and an evil villain who kidnaps and eats children.
Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) was born in London as one of 12 children. 1884 at the age of 17 he was sent on and ocean voyage to Australia to improve his fragile health. At the age of 18 he worked as a clerk at the Westminster Fire Office and began studying part-time at the Lambeth School of Art. In 1892 he left his job and started working for The Westminster Budget as a reporter and illustrator. His first book illustrations were published in 1893 in To the Other Side by Thomas Rhodes: The Other Side Illustration from "The Other Side" His first serious commission was in 1894 for The Dolly Dialogues, the collected sketches of Anthony Hope, who later went on to write The Prisoner of Zenda.Book illustrating then became Rackham's career for the rest of his life. The Dolly Dialogues In 1903 he married Edyth Starkie, with whom he had one daughter, Barbara, in 1908. Rackham won a gold medal at the Milan International Exhibition in 1906 and another one at the Barcelona International Exposition in 1912. His works were included in numerous exhibitions, including one at the Louvre in Paris in 1914. Rackham is widely regarded as one of the leading illustrators from the 'Golden Age' of British book illustration which encompassed the 100 years from1900 until the start of WW1. During that period there was a strong market for high quality illustrated books that typically were given as Christmas gifts. Many of Rackham's books were produced in a de luxe limited edition, often vellum bound and sometimes signed, as well as a larger, less ornately bound quarto "trade' edition. This was often followed by a more modestly presented octavo edition in subsequent years for particular books. The onset of WW1 in 1914 curtailed the market for such quality books, and the public's taste for fantasy and fairies also declined in the 1920s. Rackham invented his own unique technique which resembled photographic reproduction; he would first sketch an outline of his drawing, then lightly block in shapes and details, Afterwards he would add lines in pen and India ink, removing the pencil traces after it had dried. With colour pictures, he would then apply multiple washes of colour until translucent tints were created: 1911 Lovers ink and watercolour 22.8 x 12.6 cm He would also go on to expand the use of silhouette cuts in illustration work, particularly in the period after the First World War, as exemplified by his Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella. Plate from "Cinderella" Typically, Rackham contributed both colour and monotone illustrations towards the works incorporating his images - and in the case of Hawthorne's Wonder Book, he also provided a number of part-coloured images similar in style to Meiji era Japanese woodcuts. Arthur Rackham died in Limpsfield, Surrey. This is part 1 of an 8-part post on the works of Arthur Rackham: The Ingoldsby Legends is a collection of myths, legends, ghost stories and poetry written supposedly by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Manor, actually a pen-name of an English clergyman named Richard Harris Barham. The legends were first printed during 1837 as a regular series in the magazine Bentley's Miscellany and later in New Monthly Magazine. The legends were illustrated by John Leech and George Cruikshank. They proved immensely popular and were compiled into books published in 1840, 1842 and 1847 by Richard Bentley. They remained popular during the 19th century but have since become little known. An omnibus edition was published in 1879: The Ingoldsby Legends; or Mirth and marvels. 1898 – 1907 Illustrations originally created by Arthur Rackham in 1898 and revised in 1907, published in 1908. 1898 - 1908 The Ingoldsby Legends 1898 - 1907 "The little man had seated himself in the centre of the circle upon the large skull" 1898 - 1907 "Into the bottomless pit he fell slap" 1898 - 1907 "Wandering about and Boo-hoo-ing" 1898 - 1907 "The horn at the gate of the Barbican tower was blown with a loud twenty-trumpeter power" 1898 - 1907 "Sir Thomas, her Lord, was stout of limb" 1898 - 1907 "A flood of brown-stout he was up to his knees in" 1898 - 1907 "A grand pas de deux performed in the very first style by these two" 1898 - 1907 "And the maids cried Good gracious, how very tenacious!" 1898 - 1907 "One kick? It was but one but such a one" 1907 "Sir Rupert the Fearless" 1898 - 1907 "With a countenance only Keeley could put on" Grimm's Fairy Tales is a collection of German fairy tales first published in 1812 by the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. They penned many popular children’s stories, including Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and Rumpelstiltskin. Illustrations by Rackham produced, and in some cases revised, between 1898 and 1909. 1898 - 1909 Grimm's Fairy Tales Title page Rip Van Winkle is a short story by American author Washington Irving published in 1819, as well as the name of the story's fictional protagonist. Written while Irving was living in Birmingham, England, it was part of a collection entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon. Although the story is set in New York’s Catskill Mountains, Irving later admitted, "When I wrote the story, I had never been on the Catskills." This version originally published in 1905. 1904 - 1905 Rip Van Winkle
The waves of all the worlds seemed to whirl past them in one huge green cataract. An Arthur Rackham illustration for Becuma of the White Skin from Irish Fairy Tales. My scan.
Her masterpiece "The Bloody Chamber," which includes the story on which "The Company of Wolves" is based, reissued
Artuš Scheiner is an artist from Prague that was very active during the 1920's. Interestingly enough Scheiner started out with doodling and sketching, later deciding to push his hobby to illustration he became very well known for his Bohemian style. The colors are so vivid and the subject
Hello Everyone! We are wrapping up our two week long Reading/Social Studies integrated unit on fairy/folk tales. We have read so many different Cinderella stories from all over the world, compared, retold, mapped, learned about different cultures, and so much more! Today we brainstormed some of the different things we found in fairy tales and responded through writing an acrostic and a hands on visual connection. I love how hard the kids worked on these and the amazing connections they made!! Way to go, kiddos!! This reader's response activity is included in my Cinderella unit. You can get your activities and patterns HERE!!! Bibbity Bobbity Boo! :) Click! (free!) Stay tuned for some fun reader's theater clips!! We are having a ball in first grade!! Thanks for stopping by for a peek!! Joyfully! Nancy
I've grown old but I've never forget the exquisite taste of the fairy tales. There are many motives, hear some of them...The mystery that accompanies the fairy tale, its origins, and the invariability of functions (such mystery that still exists...
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Yoshitaka Amano's renditions of classic fairy tales.
On this page are twenty-four amazing illustrations by Arthur Rackham for a collection of Grimm Fairy Tale Classics.
OK, I know I’ve already said it’s been quite a year for historical fiction (and, you know, I stand by that), but we’ve had some amazing graphic novels to read this year, too. I don’t know if we’ll replicate This One Summer’s total dominance at the YMAs (OK, maybe I’m slightly overstating there!), but I […]
Written by Jean Qui Rit. Illustrated by Artuš Scheiner
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Dirty little secret. Faulty communication to blame once again. Snickers over the bumbling and trip ups. Such clods. “God, how we get our fingers in each other’s clay. That’s friendship,…
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In the 1970s, while musicians were rediscovering and reinventing the genre of folk music, writers were rediscovering and reinventing the genre of fantasy fiction. The audience for both of these things overlapped, and it’s not hard to understand why. Fantasy...
Delve into the world of fairy tales and fables with these free printables. The set includes word puzzles, vocabulary worksheets, and coloring pages.
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