Illustrationintheworld

  Creating inventive imagery ranging from panoramic to intimate, Sandberg pushes the skillful illusionism of master painting to the contemporary edge of Magic Realism.   His work has been exhibited at public and private venues internationally, including the Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC; Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA; and Baker Museum, Naples, FL. Sandberg's paintings are also included in numerous international private collections. https://www.facebook.com/Erik-Thor-Sandberg-308902122481764/

  Doré was born in  Strasbourg  on 6 January 1832. By age 5 he was a prodigy artist, creating drawings that were mature beyond his years. Seven years later, he began carving in stone. [ citation needed ]  At the age of 15, Doré began his career working as a caricaturist for the French paper  Le journal pour rire . [2]  Wood-engraving was his primary method at this time. [3]  In the late 1840s and early 1850s, he made several  text comics , like  Les Travaux d'Hercule  (1847),  Trois artistes incompris et mécontents  (1851),  Les Dés-agréments d'un voyage d'agrément  (1851) and  L'Histoire de la Sainte Russie  (1854). Doré subsequently went on to win commissions to depict scenes from books by  Cervantes ,  Rabelais ,  Balzac ,  Milton , and  Dante .

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...