Sunday, May 25, 2008

Robin Jacques

Robin Jacques
British Art Director/Educator/Illustrator
born 1920 - died 1995

Jacques (rhymes with Jakes) was orphaned at an early age, and taught himself to draw. He illustrated over 100 children's books in his career. These fantastic and detailed pen-and-ink drawings are from Steel Magic by Andre Norton, ©1965.

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2 comments:

mydododied said...

Robin Jacques! One of my favourites. Thank you for this.

YAMAMURA Tsukiko said...

Thank you for posting this about Robin Jacques. I very much like his style.