Eve Morel

Fairy tales and fables, edited and illustrated by Eve Morel, published 1977, the vey sweet illustrations here, are very much of their time, the cabbage patch doll era.

Hilde Langen

 

'Little Red Riding Hood' a rare book 'with moving parts' verses by Martha Strachwitz, translated by Barbara Betteridge  illustrated by Hilde Langen. Published in 1960.  I like the red illustrations and plain colour text surrounds more than the colour plates that are more primitive.  

Katharine Cameron

Katharine Cameron (1874-1965) studied at the Glasgow School of Art, from 1889 to 1893 and at Colarossi's in Paris with Gustave Courtois. Katherine was one of the Glasgow girls, pictured here in the back row with her arms out, she became known for her prints and watercolours, she also illustrated several books in the 'Told to the Children' series, edited in the early 1900's by Louey Chisholm, and published in London by T. C. & E. C. Jack. Katherine Cameron illustrated many fairytales and The Water Babies.

        

Vyacheslav Legkobit,

A little wildness from Vyacheslav Legkobit (1941- ), studying it, it may be a wolf fish wearing this red cap and listening to a clam gramophone  held aloft by a lobster, but what ever it has wolfish magic to me.

I have shared Vyacheslav Legkobit's work on theartroomplant but information about this fantastic artist is hard to come by.  He was born near Kiev in 1941 but sadly orphaned when both his parents died during the war. He was adopted by the family who gave him his surname. In 1964 he studied briefly at the Faculty of Graphic Art at the Kiev Art Institute. It seems he had an unhappy marriage and some sort of crisis before disappearing into obscurity. 

Unattributed

'Little Red  Riding Hood' by Allen D. Bragdon, published by Allen D. Bragdon 1925. Now I suspect Allen D Bragdon is not the illustrator of this beautiful book. To me it looks very like the work of Elsie Anna Wood, but if anyone is more enlightened please let me know. 

Pablo Ramirez Diaz

Little Red Riding Hood by Muriel W. (Retold by) Perrault, illustrated by Pablo Ramirez (1926-1966) Published 1965. Pablo has an extremely stylised visual language, his red riding hood has a minimalist anime style face, she seems to be wearing traditional dutch style clothing and the palette is sometimes very unusual like the 1952 painting 'Chinese Girl' by Vladimir Tretchikoff (see below). 

Above: Pablo Ramirez Diaz

Uncredited! (Walt Disney Productions)

I am sorry, but for now I cannot find the illustrator of this fabulous book/ record, which saddens me as I love the boldness of the images and the style and shapes. 'The story of Little Red Riding Hood'. [sound recording] produced and uncredited by Walt Disney Productions, published in 1968.

June Goldsborough

Little red riding Hood, illustrated by June Goldsborough, published in 1964.

Mirko Hanák

 

Mirko Hanák (1921-1971) was a Czechoslovakian illustrator and printer  this is his illustration for Little Red from a collection of fairy tales, 'Europaische Marchen' published in 1982 by Altberliner Verlag.

Mirko Hanák was born on June 26, 1921, in what is now the city of Martin in Slovakia, then known as Turčiansky Svätý Martin. His father was a sawmill manager. Hanák studied for two years at the School of Art in Zlín from 1940 to 1942. Afterward, as part of the 'generation of 1921,' he was conscripted into the Nazi forced labor system and sent to a factory in Kapfenberg, Austria. In Christmas 1944 he escaped from the factory along with his painter friend, Čestmír Kafka. 

After the war Mirko enrolled at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. His family settled in Bukovice, near Jeseník, the Jeseníky Mountains became a primary source of inspiration for his art.

Hanák's style was heavily influenced by modern Chinese painting, particularly its ink painting tradition. Exhibitions of Chinese art, at this time were organised as part of a cultural collaboration between the People's Republic of China and Czechoslovakia.

Hanák developed a highly distinctive visual language by balancing watercolor washes flowing across a wet surface with precise ink details- like eyes,feathers, and fur -added after the paper had dried.

Celestino Piatti

 

 Celestino Piatti cover for Hermann Hesse's 'Der Steppenwolf Roman` published in 1955.