Illustrationintheworld

  Artist/illustrator Ruth Eastman (Rodgers) (December 27, 1882 — July 1976) was well known in her day for pictorializing female beauty, energy and abilities. She was born and raised in Nassau, Long Island. Her father, George W. Eastman, was an attorney specializing in real estate who founded the Roslyn Savings Bank and was active in politics and temperance activities. Ruth's mother was Jennie Rushmore who also had two other surviving children, Lester and Mortimer. The couple kept a lovely home that was a refuge and resort for their many friends. Ruth enjoyed a privileged upbringing and studied art in New York with William Merritt Chase at the Art Students League. She would later study art in Paris and London, as well. By 1903, she was teaching illustration classes at the Art Students League. That year she also took two first place prizes in the Queens-Nassau Fair for a black and white sketch of an energetic businessman walking along a city street and for a pen and ink sketc...

  Rafael de Penagos Zalabardo (Madrid, March 7, 1889-M adrid, April 24, 1954) was a Spanish cartoonist and painter, an exponent of Art Deco illustration, the style that marks the incorporation of the languages of modernity into life. daily. Penagos studied at the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts, where he received classes from Emilio Sala and Antonio Muñoz Degrain, two of the great graphic illustrators of the Blanco y Negro magazine. Although he combines graphic illustration and painting from the beginning, he soon shows the enormous quality he achieves in drawings. He participates in the Madrid cultural environment and regularly attends the Valle-Inclán gatherings at the Nuevo Café de Levante. In 1913, he got a scholarship to go to Paris and London. Upon his return, he began to develop an intense activity as a poster designer and publicist for different commercial houses. In parallel, he works as an illustrator in the main magazines of the moment, such as Nuevo Mundo, La ...