Rackham, Arthur
Rackham, Arthur (1867–1939),British illustrator, whose gift for gracefully portraying fairy world inhabitants within familiar settings, captured the affection of his contemporaries, and continues to elicit the admiration of critics.
Rackham's first fairy‐tale illustrations, in the Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (1900), included 95 drawings whose immediate popularity led him to revise some of its illustrations for colour reproduction. In 1902 he illustrated The Little White Bird. His subsequent illustrations for Rip van Winkle (1905) established him as ‘the leading decorative illustrator of the Edwardian period’, in the words of his biographer Derek Hudson. A torrent of illustrations followed: Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1906), Alice in Wonderland (1907), A Midsummer Night's Dream...
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