News and Recent additions
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Anniversary Deal: Art Passions will be 10 years old this year! Celebrate with us by downloading some . Yes, they're really free. Thank you all for being wonderful.
Virginia Frances Sterret: New page: with complete illustrations to her three published books: Arabian Nights, Old French Fairy Tales, and Tanglewood Tales. Postcard enabled. Links to Sterrett stuff coming.
Books: Are you looking for with the Adrienne Segur illustrations? Don't spend $300 on the original (unless you want to). It has been republished as .
Arthur Rackham: New Fairies! added . Soon: The Chimes. I got a signed copy for Christmas :)
Edmund Dulac: I added the 9 illustrations to Gods and Mortals in Love to . Soon: Fairies I Have Met Later: The Tempest.
Adrienne Segur: I have more illustrations to add to . I'll get to it soon. I promise.
2010 Calendars: The Art Passions 2010 Calendar is up: . We also made some an individual 2010 calendar for some of the artists as an experiment. They are listed . I'm looking for a different vendor for calendars for next year. Please tell me if you know one.
Meanwhile, Sebastian had so much fun making the Christmas postcard that he's made some Rackham and Parrish postcards. We like postcards because they cost less to mail, generate less trash, and can become bookmarks when they're done. He's also going to do some Valentines. All that stuff and the journals are
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Stories: Still nothing new since last time, but Fairies I Have Met is planned. Stories, fairy tales retold, and a little commentary are listed here: , including the retold by XineAnn.
Fairies I have more fairies and Rackham to add, but the pages are just unwieldy and out of control and I don't know what to do about it. This has been pushed back until I figure it out. Also see on the blog.
Other Additions: I added images from The Wonder Book to the Rackham gallery. The Pandora image is particularly nice. Also several new additions to .
Pages to Color I've also added some of the black and white illustrations from Grimms Fairy Tales and Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales. These are suitable for printing out for children to color. Images are from The Frog Prince, the Snow Queen and others. These will focus on fine motor skills but are not so detailed as to be frustrating for elementary age children. Are these something anyone wants? If these are popular, and I'll do some more.
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Really, too many Rackham illustrations to list, including Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens,
Alice in Wonderland,
Mother Goose,
Gulliver's Travels,
Wind in the Willows.
Also Twilight of the Gods,
The Ring, The Wonder Book,
Goblin Market, and others.
Most recent: Complete The Wonder Book. |
Edmund Dulac's illustrations grace such hard-to-find classics as his Dreamer of Dreams, The Fairy Book, and his Picture Book for the Red Cross.
Also: Arabian Nights, Sinbad the Sailor, and The Rubaiyat.
Most recent: More and better Rubaiyat images and the complete illustrations to Beauty and the Beast. Edmund Dulac's Picture Book for the Red Cross. |
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Kay Nielsen illustrations to Grimm's Fairy Tales,
Old Tales from the North, Twelve Dancing Princesses, Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales
and others.
Most recent: Added illustrations to Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales. |
John Bauer's famous trolls and illustrations to nordic myths and tales.
Most recent: Sagovarld (Great Swedish Fairy Tales / Swedish Folk Tales), Lapp Folk, Our Fathers' Godsaga, more. |
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Dinky Bird, Ecstasy, Cinderella, and others. Maxfield Parrish illustrations to Poems of Childhood and elsewhere.
Most recent: 14 new images images have been added to . Replaced some older poorer quality images with new scans. |
This is really where Art Passions started You will find Adrienne Segur's illustrations to The Fairy Tale book by Marie Ponsot.
Also: My Book of Cat Stories, The Snow Queen, Ib and Christine, and The Nutcracker.
Most recent: Added all the illustrations to L'Oiseau D'Or.
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Fairy art images collections from the illustrations of Arthur Rackham, Gustave Dore, Edmund Dulac, and others.
Also: A special collection of Rackham fairies only.
(with artist sublinks)
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Christmas, Angels, Florals, Theosophical, and unsorted images.
Most recent: Added 12 new images to the page, including The Little Mermaid. |
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Illustrations to the best loved fairy tales from Andersen, Perrault, Brothers Grimm, La Fontaine.
Most recent: I am working on this section so you will be able to find images by Fairy Tale as well as by Artist.
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Collections from The Raven, The Bible, The Divine Comedy, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Tennyson's Elaine, Perrault's Fairy Tales, Paradise List.
Most recent: Replaced poor quality Ancient Mariner images with new scans from the 1876 elephant folio edition and completed the section. Replaced the poor quality Raven images with new scans from the 1884 edition and completed the section. Added cover scan and list of illustrations with the respective engravers. |
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Jessie Marion King's illustrations illustrations to Seven Happy Days and House of Pomegranates Coming soon: The Rubaiyat and The Defence of Guinevere.
Most recent: Added all the illustrations to A House of Pomegranates.
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and the PreRaphaelites
Images of the patterns and artwork of William Morris and the Preraphaelites. Currently working on these pages. |
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Anne Anderson illustrations to Old, Old Fairy Tales, Grimms Fairy Tales, Hans Christian Anderson Fairy Tales.
Most recent: Also The Wonder Book, Aladdin, Mother Goose, Heidi and more. Pages to color.
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The online text of Robinson Crusoe with illustrations by N.C. Wyeth. Coming Soon: The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne. |
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Images by Aubrey Beardsley from Salomé, The Yellow Book, Le Morte D'Arthur, and the Victorian parodies / erotica.
Most recent: Le Morte d'Arthur images have been added to . The images that were causing trouble have moved to their own page. School filter software should block it. |
Il Pentermone, Book of Fairy Poetry, Myths, Goddesses, Magical Creatures.
Most recent: The complete illustrations to The Book of Fairy Poetry added to . |
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Old French Fairy Tales, Arabian Nights, and Tanglewood Tales.
Most recent: The complete color illustrations all her three published books have been added to . |
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Fairy Tales are the myths we live by.
Art Passions is primarily about artists and illustrators whose works I grew up with. I encourage you to explore this site and learn about the works of , , , , , , , , , , , the Preraphaelites and others.
Currently working on: I am back on updating the . And making . The Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast tile panels are particularly interesting. The whole process is really fun.
The Parrish page is also getting an overhaul.
Longer-term: Florence Harrison, Edward Detmold, Charles and W.Heath Robinson, Arthur Dixon.
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What Else is Here... It's more than just a gallery. : Some artpassions visitors who are also artists show some of their work .
Did you know you can send a free ecard from any gallery image on Art Passions? I've started adding that feature to Artsy Craftsy as well here: . There was some problem with the postcard script when Art Passions moved to a new server, but I believe that's fixed.
Questions? I may have answered it in the . If not, you can write to me using the link at the bottom of this page or . I can't really help you appraise art by these artists, or write a term paper that's due tomorrow morning.
Resources: I try to keep Art Passions non-commercial, although there are some links to Artsy Craftsy. Whatever resources I have for finding books or posters by these artists are listed in the , on the , or resources pages. More and different prints are available at . Sets of art tiles and accent tiles by these artists will eventually be available at . Viewing the images: The images will be displayed in a new window when you click on any of the links. News!: For a few years now, I have not been able much in the way of new images due to hotlinking of images (explained in the and have even had to remove some of the most popular victims of hotlinks. However, I think I have solved this, so you will find me adding more art and artists now. I'm really happy about this.
Suggestions: Where I know of historical sites on the artist, I have linked to those. If I have missed a great site, please . I really value your comments and feedback.
What else? , and more that shows some of the tales that my Great Aunt Sadie used to tell (Sadie changed them every time she told them.) There are already abundant and .
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