The Golden Age of Illustration Project

#81

Hi, Lolo and Daniel…thank you both for your comments.

Being a woman, I like to spotlight some of the wonderful work done by females in this golden era.  
 
 Elizabeth Shippen Green, who illustrated for many Harper's Monthly issues alongside such others as Edwin Austin Abbey and Howard Pyle.  She was one of a trimvirate dubbed The Red Rose Girls by Howard Pyle for the Inn where the three artists, rounded out by Jessie Wilcox Smith and Violet Oakley, established their studios.

There is a book out on this at Amazon.

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A Pennsylvania artist who was famous for her murals, she painted the first delegates to the League of Nations and United Nations. She had a remarkable career from her paintings to her illustrations and ultimately her mural work.

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Considered some of her finest work, Jessie Wilcox Smith’s The Water-Babies are quite beautiful and engaging. The story was first printed in the year of her birth, 1863.

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Enjoy!
Cris
#82

Small update.

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#83

Hi…Cris…:thumbsup:

LIKE THAT REDHEAD…:bounce: :slight_smile: … Has the feel of a Vargas girl, except more vivid color…:thumbsup: …Really like the way you created her using the gesture from the other model…GREAT…:applause:

TAKE CARE
Glenn

#84

Hey Cris! What a wonderful thread you got going here… so many great illustrations, yours included :slight_smile:
I think this will be a good place to get some inspiration - I immidiately fell in love with [color=White] Modern Mechanix, haven’t seen them before. Alsolutely priceless!

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#85

I worship the work of Norman Rockell & Gustav Klint.

I am in as soon as I finish Rebecca’s Torso challenge.

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-R

#86

Hi, Glenn…glad you like her…I kinda fell in love with this palette.

Gunie! Thanks for stopping by. I will be posting more Modern Mechanix since both you and Lolo like it. I really love those covers, too.

Roberto, great to see you…I’m hoping others will try their hand at some of these remarkable styles…there is such a variety and so much to learn from them.

Here’s another update…have to move on to some other work for a while.

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Cris

#87

I lied…had to take a client phone call…made another update.

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#88

Beautiful work Cris, I really love the pallette you’ve used on the skintones, it sits wonderfully against the white. And the whole style is really faithful to the original that inspired you too. You’ve also convinced me that once I get back into work, I shall have to see if I can find an illustrated water babies book. It’s an eon since I saw an animated version of it as a child and fell in love with the whole concept, and those drawings have just sparked wonderful memories. I must find and read the book now. It reminds me of an original illustrated peter pan book that my mother gave me, that is just black and white, but very similar feel, I shall have to dig it out of the loft and scan a couple of those plates in.

#89

I really appreciate your words, Sam. I certainly hope to see you go forward with your Mucha-inspired piece.

Here are a couple more of those wonderful Modern Mechanix covers.

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Sometimes there is such beauty in simplicity. Rita Senger’s Vanity Fair cover.

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A lovely illustration by C. Coles Phillips, “Know Men by their Gifts”.

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And a bit more on my Sunny Side Up.

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Cris

#90

Wow, where do you find all these images hahaaa!? WEll, anyway I was wondering, whether you had made this thread for eeveryone to jump inas well? Becasue I’d not want to copy anyone but working with the style ni my own way seems like fun :D. Anyway great work on the last one, love the pose of her left shoulder. :slight_smile:

#91

Thanks, JM. Please, yes…I would love for others to play. It’ll be so much more fun if we not only take inspiration from the illustrations of this era, but from each other here. And if you have a particular illustrator you’re interested in, let me know as I love researching this time period.

Cris

#92

Placed the larger version of this into my portfolio. Thank you to everyone for your kind words of support for this, my other work and this thread.

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Cris

#93

Hi-ya Cris!

Beautiful job! I really like the colors :slight_smile:

#94

Hi, Brooke…I’m pleased you like it. Funny…a friend looked at it earlier and said, “and, of course, birds again”. Truthfully…lol…I hadn’t even noticed…I mean…I wasn’t thinking that I would continue my seeming bird passion. Heh.

Ok, so today I’ve got a few from one of my favorite illustrators, Frank Schoonover.

An illustrator, Mabel K. Hatt, who I am sure was not punning with, The Pink Bonnet.

Paul Stahr, with a Jailbreak and an assuredly punned, Lost Man of War.

Clara M. Burd did a very famous and oft-printed version of Mother Goose Rhymes. This is an earlier illustration whose simplicity just floors me.

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Enjoy!
Cris

#95

Great work Cris, very unique style you’ve got.

#96

Beautiful colours in the last one Cris. The hair is so lovely!

#97

GOLDEN THREAD !! thats all i can say !:scream:

Many thanx to Cris…thank god u posted ur kind words on my thread and i found this TREASURE !! :bounce:

Great going !!

Looking forward for more…:thumbsup:

#98

Uuuu I love your last pic Expecially for the women’s pose. A perfect anatomy described in few lines!

“The pink bonnet” is an incredible image. So…stylish so…elegant.

Thank you for your searching and posting work,
Serena.

#99

Hello, George. Thank you…very kind.

Shreya, I’m so glad you like it.

Thank you for stopping by, Shyam. I plan to keep going as long as people want more.

Hi, Serena…yep, I am also enchanted by all these little treasures I find.

Some pin-up work from this wonderful period.

I’m a sucker for the clothing from WWI through WWII. Through the “naughty” art of La Vie Parisienne, was an incredible record of the clothing, outer and intimate, of the day. I love the lines of this black and white dress.

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Along with pinups from La Vie Parisienne so loved by the French (from what I have read), the American Doughboys lovingly carried pinups by Raphael Kirchner through the war years.

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I have a real predilection for the work of Alberto Vargas from his days illustrating the stars of the Ziegfield Follies through calendars of the 1920s.

Returning to my Songbird, this is the original hand.

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And correcting it.

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Thanks to all who stop by and especially those of you who take the time to post.

Cris

#100

Hi Cris!

I really like the update on the songbird peace. The bird is just so cute…a little puff ball :slight_smile: I think you’re doing great on the hands. Will there be any background for this piece? In any case, great progress on the painting :slight_smile: And thanks for the online art collection.

Brooke.