America's Great Illustrators

by Susan E. Meyer

Book Overview

Represented in 417 illustrations with 186 color plates are the drawings and paintings of illustrators whose images are admired for their artistic merit, as well as for the fads and fashions they inspired and the record of history that is their legacy.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0883656450
• ISBN13: 9780883656457
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Galahad Books
• Weight: 4.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Outstanding

This large format hardcover presents the 10 top illustrators of America, with extensive good reproductions of each artist's work, in both black-and-white and color. The accompanying notes give useful information about each artist and his work. The book covers each artist in about 20/25 pages of text and reproductions, except for Norman Rockwell who gets the lion's share with some 48 pages!!! I think this is unfair to the other nine who were not less talented than Rockell, especially Leyendecker, who was the idol of Rockwell who imitated his work!! Nevertheless, the book offers an outstanding spectrum of the work of these masters who were extremely talented and different in style. The book shows that alsmost all of these "master illustrators" were also very great painters!

Excellent Reference~

Excellent Reference for Illustrators, art students, or painters. You'll love this book if you like J.C. Leyendecker, Howard Pyle, Norman Rockwell, N.C. Wyeth, Maxfield Parrish and other great American illustrator. This huge book is filled with drawing and color illustrations.