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Walter Crane

English

Walter Crane Design for a Cover for the Scottish Art Review Unknown

Biography

Born

1845

Died

1915

Nationality

English

Birth Place

Liverpool

Death Place

Horsham

Walter Crane was born in Liverpool, and shared the Pre-Raphaelites’ interest in medieval design. He was a student of John Ruskin, and a friend of William Morris. He was a versatile artist and created designs for wallpapers, printed fabrics, tiles and ceramics. Crane believed that any object made with love and skill could help educate the public to appreciate and enjoy beautiful design. He was a founding member of the Art Worker’s Guild and Principal of the Royal College of Art, London. From the 1860s Crane worked on illustrations for children’s books and developed a distinctive Symbolist style which often featured mythical or allegorical subjects. Crane had an international reputation as an illustrator, and was in constant demand for his designs for book covers and advertisements.

Walter Crane (15 August 1845 – 14 March 1915) was an English artist and book illustrator. He is considered to be the most influential, and among the most prolific, children's book creators of his generation and, along with Randolph Caldecott and Kate Greenaway, one of the strongest contributors to the child's nursery motif that the genre of English children's illustrated literature would exhibit in its developmental stages in the later 19th century. Crane's work featured some of the more colourful and detailed beginnings of the child-in-the-garden motifs that would characterize many nursery rhymes and children's stories for decades to come. He was part of the Arts and Crafts movement and produced an array of paintings, illustrations, children's books, ceramic tiles, wallpapers and other decorative arts. Crane is also remembered for his creation of a number of iconic images associated with the international socialist movement.

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British artist, illustrator, and designer.

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