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Willy Pogany, born in 1882 in Hungary, was an artist and illustrator in the first half of last century, who worked on everything from children's books to books of poetry, history, magazine articles and ads, and much, much more.
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat - Illustrated by Willy Pogány
Willy Pogany - Forty-Four Turkish Fairy Tales (1913)
Willy Pogany - Tannhauser (1911)
Willy Pogany's Drawing Lessons
Odysseus Tells His Tale
Penelope Unraveling The Weave
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Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat - Illustrated by Willy Pogány
Willy Pogany - Forty-Four Turkish Fairy Tales (1913)
Willy Pogany - Tannhauser (1911)
Willy Pogany's Drawing Lessons
While other illustrators were confining themselves to an occasional tipped in plate buried among page after page of identical text blocks, Pogany broke the mold, designing elaborate pen and ink illustrations that surrounded the text, ornate capitals for the beginning of each page and calligraphy that turned the words into art. He is probably the artist most responsible for establishing what we think of as modern children’s book illustration.The Adventures Of Odysseus And The Tale Of Troy
Odysseus Tells His Tale
Penelope Unraveling The Weave
via My Delineated Life: Adventurous Books
The Rubaiyat video was really really awesome.
The worst thing about reading as an adult is how few beautifully illustrated pages crop up in my books.
posted by DigDoug at 7:30 AM on July 12, 2013
The worst thing about reading as an adult is how few beautifully illustrated pages crop up in my books.
posted by DigDoug at 7:30 AM on July 12, 2013
What an interesting post. They are lovely illustrations. Although he is certainly not a first-rate illustrator.
(I find it interesting that on some occasions his figure drawing is noticeably weak - his hands, for instance, or the torso of some of the female figures. And yet in other instances it's fine. That's odd - generally, if you can draw a thing, it's drawn.)
posted by glasseyes at 7:10 PM on July 12, 2013
(I find it interesting that on some occasions his figure drawing is noticeably weak - his hands, for instance, or the torso of some of the female figures. And yet in other instances it's fine. That's odd - generally, if you can draw a thing, it's drawn.)
posted by glasseyes at 7:10 PM on July 12, 2013
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