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Arthur Rackham Biography
(1867–1939)
painter and illustrator

Arthur Rackham was born in 1867 into a Victorian age that he perpetuated and documented by way of his art. He was one of twelve children, studied at the City of London School where he won prizes and a reputation for his art. At the age of 18, he became a clerk. It was, after all, a Dickensian world as well, where clerks played a significant role in both fiction and real life.

He clerked and in his spare time studied at the Lambeth School of Art. Arthur Rackham made occasional sales to the illustrated magazines of the day like Scraps and Chums. In 1891 and 1892, he had a close association with the Pall Mall Budget as one of this weekly's main illustrative reporters. He was competent.

Early Arthur Rackham painting showed facility but little else. The humor and romance and soul that were to make him the premier illustrator of the early twentieth century had not manifested themselves yet. In 1892, Arthur Rackham left his clerk position at the Westminster Fire Office for the uncertainty of a career as an illustrator. He landed a regular job at the Westminster Budget, a weekly magazine, that provided him with regular painting as a reporter as he tackled the burgeoning book market. His first efforts were decidedly non-fantasy and are very indicative of an artist in search of a style. The image above right from the 1895 edition of Washington Irving's Tales of a Traveler owes as much to Howard Pyle or E.A. Abbey as to anyone else. Other Arthur Rackham illustrations (there were five) in the two-volume set are remarkably unlike this one and are stylistically vague. From book to book and image to image, one would be hard pressed to be certain the painting was by the same artist.

Through the teens and twenties Arthur Rackham continued to create wonderful images and books. Many of vellum-bound limited editions of the era are from him. Many of his books were revised and re-released. There was even a Peter Pan portfolio. It seems like every classic was fair game for him. Through 1940 Arthur Rackham did versions of Aesop's Fables, Mother Goose, A Christmas Carol, The Romance of King Arthur, English Fairy Tales, Cinderella, The Sleeping Beauty, Hansel and Gretel, Irish Fairy Tales, A Fairy Book, The Allies Fairy Book, Comus, A Wonder Book, The Tempest, The Vicar of Wakefield, The Chimes, The Night Before Christmas, The Compleat Angler, The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, The King of the Golden River, Goblin Market, The Pied Piper, Peer Gynt, The Wind in the Willows and more. Note how many of these same titles were also issued with illustrations by Edmund Dulac. - Arthur Rackham paintings copy of original oils and biography is here.

Arthur Rackham - Wind in the WillowsHe never lost the joy and sense of wonderment and he never gave in to the baser styles that fell in and out of favor over the years. From Queen Victoria's death in 1901 to the start of World War I, Rackham's illustrations preserved a lifestyle and a sensibility that kept the frighteningly modern future at bay. His beautiful drawings were the antithesis of the industrial advances that allowed them to be printed at affordable prices. Even into the twenties and thirties, his art was a constant reminder of those aspects of innocence that had been left behind. Arthur Rackham always kept his gentle humor and his Wind in the Willows (at left), published posthumously in 1940, is as much a children's classic as his Peter Pan. Arthur Rackham died in 1939.

Robert Lawson paid this tribute to the artist in Horn Book in 1940: "The appreciation of Rackham's genius has suffered, I think, by its complete perfection. All his drawings appear so polished, so finished, so graceful, that many fail to realize the great strength and firm knowledge that underlie this seeming ease." And in October, 1967, Ellen Shaffer also said in Horn Book, "It has been nearly thirty years since the death of Arthur Rackham; a whole new generation has reached maturity in that period and been charmed by his painting, as were their parents and their grandparents before them. Their children, too, are delighting in the books Arthur Rackham illustrated, and their appreciation of his art will grow with the years."

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