Marcel Vertès
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Marcel Vertès

~ 1895 – 1961 Marcel Vèrtes was a French costume designer and illustrator of Hungarian-Jewish origins. He won two Academy Awards (Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design) for his work on the 1952 film Moulin Rouge. He was born and raised in Budapest, during the interwar years he lived in Paris…

Bill Ward
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Bill Ward

~ (1919 – 1998) William Hess Ward (1919–1998), affectionately known as Bill Ward, was a trailblazing American cartoonist and illustrator whose provocative “good girl” art captured the sultry spirit of mid-20th-century pin-up culture. Born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Ridgewood, New Jersey, Ward…

Tom Poulton
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Tom Poulton

~ 1897 – 1963 Thomas Leycester Poulton was a British magazine and medical illustrator who provided artwork for a range of publications including the British Journal of Surgery and The Radio Times. After his death it was discovered that he had also secretly produced hundreds of sketches and finished…

Kurtys
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Kurtys

This artist illustrated some books written by Grégor Yvan (Grégor Yvan Wild). For the artist I could not find any information.One of the books illustrated by this artist was stored on my site for a long time, somehow I overlooked the artist. Books illustrated by…

Elisar von Kupffer
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Elisar von Kupffer

~ 1872 – 1942 Elisàr August Emanuel von Kupffer was a Baltic German artist, anthologist, poet, historian, translator, and playwright. He used the pseudonym “Elisarion” for most of his writings.From an early age he was in delicate health, having suffered through meningitis, rheumatoid arthritis, scarlet…