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| Arthur Rackham (1867–1939) | ||||||||||
| Born in London, Rackham was an English illustrator renowned for his work in classical fiction and children's literature. He attended the Lambeth School of Art in 1884, pursuing his studies in the evenings whilst employed by day in an insurance office. In 1892 he commenced work as a newspaper artist, and not long thereafter began his career in book illustration. Mastering the halftone process, and uniting technical accomplishment with a singular imagination, he rose to prominence as one of the foremost figures of the Golden Age of British book illustration. Rackham's drawings for Rip Van Winkle in 1905 first secured his success in America, and in 1908 he was elected to the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours. Among the influences upon his art may be named Albrecht Dürer, Albrecht Altdorfer, and, from the early nineteenth century, the Japanese woodblock tradition. Rackham died in Limpsfield, Surrey. | ||||||||||
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