uwmspeccoll:Decorative Sunday: Walter CraneToday we present The Shepheard’s Calender: Twelve Aeglogu
uwmspeccoll:Decorative Sunday: Walter CraneToday we present The Shepheard’s Calender: Twelve Aeglogues Proportionable to the Twelve Monethes by Edmund Spenser, adorned with twelve pictures and other devices by Walter Crane. Published by Harper & Brothers in London and New York in 1898. Walter Crane (1845-1915) was a British artist and one of the most prolific and influential children’s illustrators of his time. Crane was heavily involved in the Arts and Crafts Movement and a student of John Ruskin and was also apprenticed to the wood engraver William James Linton. Along with influential Arts and Crafts leader William Morris, Walter Crane was involved in the Socialist movement, and worked throughout his life to bring art into daily life for all people. This led Crane to designing motifs for decorative arts like wallpaper and textiles. He also drew cartoons for several Socialist newspapers. Crane is well known for his illustrations for another of Edmund Spenser’s poems The Faerie Queene that has a similar asthetic .View more posts featuring the work of Walter Crane. View more posts about decorative arts and pattern books.–Sarah, Special Collections Graduate Intern -- source link
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