Illustrationintheworld

  Margaret Frances Bacon (May 2, 1895 – January 4, 1987) was an American artist, best known for her satirical caricatures. Bacon studied under Kenneth Hayes Miller at the Art Students League of New York, where she taught herself drypoint and published her first caricatures in the student magazine. They soon appeared in publications such as The New Yorker and Vanity Fair, as well as major art galleries. Bacon earned many awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship for creative work in the graphic arts.

  Charles Lucien Léandre (Champsecret, July 22, 1862 - Paris, May 24, 1934) was a French painter and lithographer. He was also an excellent draftsman and a well-known caricaturist. The son of a career officer (who was also mayor of his commune all his life), Charles Léandre moved from Normandy to Paris at the age of sixteen, where he was welcomed in 1878 by the painter Émile Bin, who became his teacher. Two years later he enrolled at the Paris School of Fine Arts and was assigned to the atelier of Alexandre Cabanel. He won competitions and prizes, for antique drawing in 1883 and for atelier work in 1884 and 1886. In 1882 he passed the competition to teach drawing as professor of the schools of the city of Paris and taught until 1897. In that same year he was admitted to exhibit at the Salon of French artists with the painting "Fanchon la tricoteuse" (Fanchon working Knitted). At the Universal Exhibition of 1889 he received a bronze medal for a large canvas: "The moth...