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The English were the first to adapt Japanese colored wood block printing techniques to book production. He told the story of the legendary Robin Hood in an illustrated novel and revealed the world of pirate lore to readers of his illustrated short stories. Ivanowski, known for portraits and nude figures, studied under James Whistler and Jean Paul Laurens at the Adademie Julian-Student, the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and at the Academy of Fine Arts in his native Russia.
She was godmother to Ethel Barrymore and the subject of Susan Sontag's novel "In America.". Louis, MO: The Illustrated Press, 2015.
Late 19th Century
Illustration (detail) above: Walter Crane, Beauty and the Beast, 1874
In the second half of the 19th Century, printing technology in the United States was advancing to meet the needs of a population expanding from coast to coast.
When the United States entered World War II, Bowler, like many of his fellow artists, contributed his talents to the war effort. He designed enlistment posters for the United States Air Force.
Tragedy struck in in 1958, while on a trip to France Bowler contracted polio and became paralyzed. Faster printing presses and the construction and connection of the railroad system and postal service made the manufacture and distribution of books, magazines, and newspapers more efficient, and the nation was able to read about and respond to current events more quickly than ever before. Illustration was important to publications like Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper and Harper’s Weekly.
Typically, these would be translated by wood engravers or wood block cutters. He expressed his opinion on every important social and political issue of his time, created the elephant and donkey symbols for the Republican and Democratic parties and gave America its now familiar portrayals of Uncle Sam and Santa Claus.
Thomas Nast, cover illustration, Harper's Weekly, 1874
English artist/illustrators associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood—Dante Gabriel Rosetti, Edward Burne-Jones, Frederick Sandys, A.B.
Full-length portrait of Helena Modjeska as Lady Macbeth, a role for which she was renowned. He was accustomed to making $35 a week as an apprentice.[1]
In 1948, Bowler was offered a “real” job as an artist at Cooper studios. Near the end of the century, the English illustrator Aubrey Beardsley was creating elegant and decadent work which was also, in part, influenced by Japanese graphic art.
In addition to painting many stage and opera stars, his illustrations were published in all the periodicals of the time, such as Harper's, Century and the Ladies Home Journal.
(1875-1944). In that first year he had five students of extraordinary talent—three women and two men: Violet Oakley, Elizabeth Shippen Green, Jessie Wilcox Smith, Maxfield Parrish, and Frank Schoonover. The Dalziel Brothers were the finest engraving craftsmen of their time and their interpretations of artists' pen work was said to actually improve the picture's quality.
Luckily, rigorous therapy restored movement to his arms and hands, thus returning him to his beloved career in painting.
Joe Bowler’s reputation led him to paint portraits of many influential figures of the 20th century, including Rose Kennedy and Julie and David Eisenhower.
Winslow Homer, engraving made from reportage drawing, "Surgeons at the Rear," 1862
Harper and Brothers publishers, already successful with its books and illustrated weekly newspaper, created a monthly magazine and formed a staff of in-house artists to make pen drawings on a wide range of subjects and narrative fiction.
Houghton, and others—created drawings for books and literary journals. The aspiring artist found work as an apprentice at Charles E. Cooper studios, an illustration and advertising agency, where his tasks were mainly to assist the artists with mixing paint and cleaning brushes. Whitmore asked to bring one of Bowler’s illustrations to a friend at Cosmopolitan who subsequently offered the budding artist a shocking $1,000 for it.
In 1952, The Society of Illustrators elected him into the organization, and in 1992, he was inducted into their Hall of Fame.