Illustrationintheworld

Jeffrey Catherine Jones  (January 10, 1944 – May 19, 2011) [1]  was an American artist whose work is best known from the late 1960s through the 2000s. Jones provided more than 150 covers for many different types of books through 1976, as well as venturing into fine art during and after this time. Fantasy artist  Frank Frazetta  called Jones "the greatest living painter". [2]  Although Jones first achieved fame as simply  Jeff Jones  and lived for a time as male, she later changed her name and was legally recognized as female.

Frank Frazetta  (born  Frank Frazzetta  ( / f r ə ˈ z ɛ t ə / ); February 9, 1928 – May 10, 2010) [2] [3]  was an American  fantasy  and  science fiction   artist , noted for  comic books ,  paperback book  covers, paintings, posters,  LP record  album covers and other media. He was the subject of a 2003 documentary. Frazetta was inducted into the comic book industry's  Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame  in 1995 and the  Jack Kirby Hall of Fame  in 1999.

Newell Convers Wyeth  (October 22, 1882 – October 19, 1945), known as  N. C. Wyeth , was an American artist and  illustrator . He was the pupil of artist  Howard Pyle  and became one of America's greatest illustrators. [1]  During his lifetime, Wyeth created more than 3,000 paintings and illustrated 112 books, [2]  25 of them for  Scribner's , the Scribner Classics, which is the work for which he is best known. [1]  The first of these,  Treasure Island , was one of his masterpieces and the proceeds paid for his studio. Wyeth was a  realist  painter at a time when the camera and photography began to compete with his craft. [3]  Sometimes seen as melodramatic, his illustrations were designed to be understood quickly. [4]  Wyeth, who was both a painter and an illustrator, understood the difference, and said in 1908, "Painting and illustration cannot be mixed—one cannot merge from one into the other." [3] He is the fat...