Kay Nielsen

Kay Rasmus Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator belongind to the "golden age of illustration", numbered among Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac.
Kay Nielsen studied art in Paris at Académie Julian and Académie Colarossi from 1904 to 1911. His final years were spent in poverty. For a detailed biography, please check the link.

Kay Nielsen - Twelve Dancing Princesses

Kay Nielsen - In Powder and Crinoline

Kay Nielsen - Grimms Fairy Tales

Hansel and Gretel 

Kay Nielsen - Andersen's Fairy Tales

The Princess and the Pea

Kay Nielsen - East of the Sun West of the Moon

 'The Queen Did Not Know Him'

Kay Nielsen - Red Magic

She was Forced to Produce the Key 

Kay Nielsen - Arabian Nights

 Scheherazade and the Sultan

Virginia Frances Sterrett

"Her achievement was beauty, a delicate, fantastic beauty, created with brush and pencil. Almost unschooled in art, her life spent in prosaic places of the West and Middle West, she made pictures of haunting loveliness, suggesting Oriental lands she never saw and magical realms no one ever knew except in the dreams of childhood ..."

Virginia Frances Sterrett  was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1900. Her best known work is the suite of illustrations for Arabian Nights (1928). She died of tuberculosis in 1931.

Works illustrated:

• 1920  Old French Fairy Tales by Comtesse de Segur
• 1921 Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 1928  Arabian Nights

Virginia Frances Sterrett - Arabian Nights

Virginia Frances Sterrett - Old French Fairy Tales

Virginia Frances Sterrett - Tanglewood Tales illustrations

Francisc Kalab

Francisc Kalab (1935-1997) graduated from the the Academy of Fine Arts "Nicolae Grigorescu", Bucharest, in 1959.

Francisc Kalab - Muc cel mic illustrations

Francisc Kalab - Tom Degetel illustrations

Francisc Kalab - Tunarul lui Avram Iancu illustrations

Francisc Kalab - Nuielusa de alun illustrations

Francisc Kalab - Cerbul fermecat illustrations

Francisc Kalab - Ionica Ram de Tei

Francisc Kalab - O seara in leaganul Mioritei

John Austen - Hamlet

John Archibald Austen (5 January 1886 –  27 October 1948) was an English book illustrator. His finest work is Hamlet, which he illustrated in  Beardsley style. He was also influenced by the Art Deco movement. Books which he illustrated in this manner include Daphnis and Chloe and As You Like it.