Illustrationintheworld

  Elizabeth MacKinstry, American poet, illustrator, and sculptor, was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, on March 31, 1878, the only child of Caroline Conkling McKinstry and Abraham B. McKinstry (1826-1882), a farmer and postmaster.  After her father's death, MacKinstry lived in France and Belgium, specifically in Paris from 1892 to 1901 where she studied with the sculptor Auguste Rodin. From 1909 until 1920 she lived with her mother in Buffalo, New York, working there as an artist and teaching art classes; after 1910 the spelling of their last name changed from McKinstry to MacKinstry.  She lived and worked in New York City from the mid-twenties to 1938, turning out illustrations for several New York publishing houses, as well as costume designs, decorations, and illustrations for local theater groups. In her later years MacKinstry lived in and around Lenox, Massachusetts, near Emily Howland Leeming Lyman (1871-1951), a friend from Buffalo, and donated her collection of mo...

  Charles Martin (1884–1934) was a French artist and illustrator . His illustrated books include Les Modes en 1912 , a hat collection; the erotic Mascherades et Amusettes an d Sport et divertissiment (published 1923), a collaboration with composer Erik Satie.

  Alberto Fabio Lorenzi (Fabius) was born in Florence in 1880. About ten oils remain of his artistic activity in the first decade of the 1900s and as many prints of illustrations. An almost unknown artist in Italy, he was one of the most brilliant illustrators of French publishing products in the first magical decades of the 1900s, managing to integrate perfectly into the artistic community of Paris. He was among the first to reflect himself and follow the new artistic current of those years, the Art N ou veau .

  Umberto Brunelleschi (Montemurlo, June 21, 1879 - Paris, February 16, 1949) was an Italian set designer and painter. After starting his studies at the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Florence, he later enrolled at the Accademia Libera del Nudo. In 1900 he moved to Paris where he managed, starting from 1902, to exhibit his works at the Salon des Indépendants. After participating in the First World War in the ranks of the Royal Army, he returned to France continuing to take care of the scenography of shows at the Folies Bergère, the Théâtre Mogador, the Théâtre du Châtelet and other theaters and venues in Paris.