Illustration from The Ship of Ishtar by Virgil Finlay (1949)

yeehawgust day 16: prairie fire

Maud S. Fuller (1890-1971), ''A Child's Own Book of Verse'' by Ada Maria Skinner, Vol. 2, 1917 Source

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Calendar image by Harold Sundblom for The Colson Company titled "Ideal", 1951 (August).

I don't know how to describe it, but something about Edward Gorey and Junji Ito both going slightly off-brand and illustrating a whimsical book about cats is so special to me

N.C. Wyeth, Dark Harbor Fishermen, 1943

Jessie Willcox Smith (American, 1863–1935). Oh, Don't Hurt Me! Cried Tom. I Only Want to Look at You; You Are So Handsome • 1916 •Published in Charles Kingsley The Water Babies • 1916 • Charcoal, watercolor, and oil. Gift of the artist, 1935. Cabinet of American Illustration, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

Kenyon Kox, Portrait of Maxfield Parrish

"My idol" Norman Rockwell on Maxfield Parrish

~ Paul C. Stahr, "Retouching an Old Masterpiece" (1915)

via the san francisco chronicle

Pink / Blonde

Charles Santore Snow White

Illustrations from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein by Bernie Wrightson (1983)

queen of the rodeo

Elenore Abbott (1875-1935), 'Circe', 1914 Source

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Galaxy Science Fiction, September 1954. Cover illustration by Ed Emshwiller, "Emsh".

IAN FALCONER (1959-Died March 7th 2023,at 63.Kidney failure). American author,cartoonist and illustrator of children's books, and a designer of sets and costumes for the theater. He created 30 covers for The New Yorker as well as other publications. Falconer wrote and illustrated the Olivia series of children's books, chronicling the adventures of a young pig, a series initially conceived as a Christmas gift for his young niece.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Falconer