ARTHUR RACKHAM
English illustrator (1867-1939)
Biography:
Arthur Rackham was born in 1867 in Lewisham. He attended the Art School of Lambeth and from 1888 on, he has been always present at the Royal Academy exhibitions as a watercolour expert. In 1892, he begins working as illustrator for the Westminster Budget. His first work as an illustrator dates back at 1894 for the book The Dolly Dialogues. Later on, he illustrated several works and joint the Royal Society of Watercolours, becoming master of Art Worker's guild in 1919.
Works illustrated by Rackham:
Esope, Fables
Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Hachette, 12 colour illustrations and 14 black and white illustrations, 1907.
Hans Christian Andersen, Fairy Tales (Le Vilain Petit Canard)
James Matthew Barrie, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, 1906.
C.S. Evans, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, 1919.
Jacob et Wilhelm Grimm, Fairy Tales (Blanche-Neige, Hansel et Gretel), 1900.
N. Hawthorne, A Wonder Book, 1922.
H. Ibsen, Peer Gynt, 1936.
La Motte-Fouqué, Undine, 1909.
Edgar Allan Poe, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, 1935.
W. Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1908.
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels, 1900.
Dickens, Charles. A Christmas carol, William Heinemann, 1915.
Hawthorne, A wonder book, Garden City, 1922.
Wasington Irving, The legend of Sleepy Hollow, Books of Wonder, c1990.
Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's hill, Doubleday, Page, 1906.
Poe, Tales of mystery and imagination, 1935.
Poe, Tales of terror and fantasy: Ten stories from "Tales of mystery and imagination", Dent, 1971.
Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, 1908.
John Ruskin, The king of the Golden River, Lippincott, 1932.
Critical analysis on Arthur Rackham:
James Hamilton, Arthur Rackham. L'enchanteur bien-aimé, Corentin, 1995.
Arthur Rackham on the Internet:
Site on Rackham