Powerful Lines

L'azienda del campo, 1924, via Chaudron

For my second post dedicated to the Italian artist Duilio Cambellotti, I wanted to focus on his draughtsman's skill

and the beauty of his expressive line work, as shown in his illustrations, sketches, woodcuts, prints and ceramics.

In the near future I am planning to share some of his beautiful illustrations for the Arabian Nights 

and other striking colorful artworks.

illustration for Canzoncine, 1918

illustrations for La siepe di smeraldo, 1920

illustrations for the school textbook Allegretto e Serenella, 1921

Albero e Aquile, 1929

Il Serpente, 1930

Corvi, 1931

Leggende romane, 1935

1935

Leopard Jug

I scanned these two pages from one of my books, but now I can't locate it ...

will update the info as soon as I find it!

Carezzando il gatto, 1946

One Last Bat

It's too bad that I couldn't do this in time for Halloween,

but I am still very happy to present you Tallula, queen of the night. 

She is the protagonist of the latest picture book written by Adam Jaromir,

the author of Zarafa and Fantje, and co-founder of Gimpel Verlag.

The great Józef Wilkon painted the illustrations, and 

Dorota Novacka created the distinctive typography.

„Ba… ba... barbastelle!?“, wonders Tallula,

„I don't know anybody by that name.“

Will she ever find her family and friends?

And will her new glasses be of such a great help?

Franco Matticchio

Illustration from The Bat Poet by Randall Jarrell

Bat Beauty

Brendan Wenzel

 I like bats and appreciate having them around our garden, but I am quite afraid

 of them. When I was a child I was told that bats can tangled into your hair,

a thought which filled me with horror. Even now that I know it's not true,

when a bat flies inside our window, I have to duck under a blanket.

But in many of these portraits, bats actually look quite cute!

  

Biho Takashi, Bat before the Moon, ca. 1910, via the Brooklyn Museum

Edward Gorey

Charles L. Ripper, Bats, 1954, and Maurice Sendak, The Bat-Poet, 1963, 

thanks to my vintage book collection (in blog form)

Jon Contino

 Leontine Greenberg

 Vladimir Fedotov, Whose legs?, 1970, and D. Chaikin, thanks to polny_shkaf

Plankton Art Co.

Becca Stadtlander

Józef Wilkon, Nietoperz, 1994

Jennifer Davis

Janell Cannon, Stellaluna

Renée Treml

An Alphabet of Animals

I couldn't find much reliable information on the web about the Scots-Canadian illustrator and painter

 Carton Moore-Park (1877–1956). According to different sources he may have been born in New Brunswick

 or the Hebrides, and studied under the direction of Francis Newbery at the Glasgow School of Art. 

Moore-Park specialized in animal subjects, and his artistic style was strongly influenced by Japonisme. 

In 1910 he moved to the USA, where he separated from his wife and had a relationship with, and maybe married, 
fellow artist and renowned dog painter Diana Thorne (a rather interesting character in her own right according 
to this article, complete with lots of mysteries and gossip). Anyway, if my dates are correct, Moore-Park created 
the lovely and whimsical illustrations for this alphabet book when he was only 22, which I find very impressive... 

Armadillo

Elephant

Ibex

Kangaroo

Mice

Otter

Porcupine

Unicorn

Vampire bat

Weasel

Yak

Moore-Park wrote and illustrated a variety of children's books centered on animals, including

 King of the Beasts, Biffel - A Trek Hox, The Wonders of the Insect World, The Children's Story of the Bee, 

Our Dogs, The Fables of La Fontaine and A Book of Birds (available online at archive.org).