This ever-expanding reference list provides background on a diverse spectrum of illustrators across time, cultures, and artistic styles.
Edwin Austin Abbey
Abbey was a portrait painter, muralist, and an illustrator of books and magazines.
Aubrey Beardsley
An influential artist whose bold, black and white drawings came to define the Decadent movement in Britain.
Rube Goldberg
Cartoonist famous for creating drawings of unnecessarily complex devices that perform a simple function.
Kate Greenaway
Victorian illustrator known for her watercolors of children in the idyllic English countryside.
Walter Beach Humphrey
American illustrator for "The Saturday Evening Post," "Time," and "Liberty" magazines.
Norman Rockwell
Best-known for his Boy Scout paintings and "Saturday Evening Post" covers, he inspired generations of Americans.
Alex Ross (Alexander Sharpe Ross)
Prolific illustrator of magazines from the 1940s through the 1960s.
E.H. Shepard
Illustrator and cartoonist who worked at "Punch;" best known for illustrating Winnie the Pooh.