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Rapheal Kirchner
He was an Austrian artist who mainly worked with illustration and painting. His work was an inspiration to a painter called Alberto Vargas. He was best known for Art Nouveau and early pin up work in picture postcard format. -
1900 events
Queen Victoria dies
Titanic sinks
World war 1 starts -
Charles Dana Gibson
He was an American graphic artist. He was best known for his creation of the Gibson Girl. His wife and her sisters inspired Charles to do his drawings. His work was published in Major magazines such as Life Magazine and many others for at least 30 years. -
Harrison Fisher
He was an American artist and starting drawing at a very early age. He studied at an art school called San Francisco Art Association. After he finished studying he moved back to New York and became an illustrator for magazines and newspapers. -
1920 events
Mickey mouse is born
World war 2 starts
Scott Fitzgerald publishes the Freya Gatsby -
Norman Hartnell
He was born in London and loved fashion. He was an illustrator for fashion. He created many ideas for his work for the fashion shop he owned in 1920. He was recognised also for his work he did for the ladies of he Royal Family. He gained a Royal warrant as dress maker for Queen Elizabeth in 1940. -
Hilda Steward
Her drawings were famous all over. She produced elegant high end fashions, mainly drawing items of clothing for women's fashion. -
Norman Rockwell
He was a famous American author, illustrator and painter. His work was recognised all over America for his work as he done a lot of work to do with American Culture. He was asked to draw illustrations for children's books such as Huckleberry Finn and many more. He was called an illustrator instead of an artist but later he was more recognised for his paint work as he began to base more of his work with paint. -
Elenore Abbott
She was an American book illustrator, scenic designer and painter. She created illustrations for Fairy Tale books such as Kidnapped and Grimm's Fairy Tales. Her work was influenced by Howard Pyle. She also created work for magazines such as Harper's Magazine and the Saturday Evening Post. She loved creating drawings for the fairy tale books. -
1940 events
Germany bombs London
World war 2 ends
First atom bomb dropped -
Salomon van Abbe
He was an artist, etcher and illustrator of books and magazines. Most of his commercial work was to design covers for books published in the 1920s and 1930s. -
Jean Adamson
She was born in London and didn't start studying illustration until she left school and went to study at the University of London. After she graduated she began to teach illustration and design.
She was a writer and also an illustrator of children's books. She is best known for the Topsy and Tim books. -
1960 events
First issue of Rolling Stones
Summer of Love (hippie)
Man lands on moon -
Honor Charlotte Appleton
She was a British illustrator for children's books including The Children's Alice. She had a delicate watercolour style influenced by Kate Greenaway and many others. She studied Art at the Kensington School, Frank Calderon's school of Animal Painting and also The Royal Academy of Arts. She illustrated more than 150 books within the course of her career. She first starting with children's stories and then moved onto Literary Classics. -
Kenneth Bruce Bald
He is an American illustrator and comic book artist best known for his work with the Dark Shadows newspaper comic strips. He also drew stories for comics such as Captain America, the Sub Mariner and many more. -
Edgar Henry Bangor
He is best known for his amazing cartoon illustrations.
At first he drew sports cartoons for the Eastern Daily Press.
After that he done freelance drawings for children's books. He also did a lot of work for magazines. -
Carl Barks
He is an American cartoonist, author and painter.He is best known for his comics about Donald Duck and is the creator of Scrooge McDuck. He worked for the Disney studio and the Western Publishing. When he was younger he would draw on anything that he could find in his free time. He wanted to turn something he loved which was drawing into a career. -
Graeme Base
He is an English author and illustrator of children's books.
He is best known for his second book published in 1986 Animalia and his third book called the Eleventh Hour published in 1989. -
Richard Bassford
He is an American artist who has worked in both advertising and comic books. When we was growing up he took a lot of notice of comic books particularly the ones by Wally Wood who later became an influence. He studied at the School of Industrial Art. The pen and ink illustrations he created got published into the magazine of Amateur Art and Camera. -
1980 events
Pac man is released
Japan sells the first CD
Princess Diana dies -
2000 events
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
911
Nasa rover lands on moon -
Peter de Seve
He is an American artist who has worked in illustration and the animation fields. He has drawn many covers for the Magazine the New Yorker. He is a character designer and has worked for the films such as A bugs Life, Finding Nemo, Robots and the four Ice Age films. Also he has designed the main character of E.B in the film Hop. He even designed the characters for Arthur Christmas which came out on 11th November 2011 which was even nominated for the Annie Award. -
Cassandra Jean
She is a freelance illustrator and comic designer. She designs drawings for books and comics. She is well known for her work she does for The Mortal Instruments series and other books that the famous author Cassandra Clare has done. She works closely with Cassandra Clare for her work. She has done illustrations for other books and graphic novels such as Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children and Beautiful Creatures. She even published an original graphic novel called Reindeer Boy. -
Craig Mullins and John Foster
They are two artists who work together in illustration and film. They create storyboards and concept art for films.
