JUVENILE BOOK COVER ILLUSTRATION

Authors

Lisa Marie Brown, Brigham Young University
Robert Barrett, Brigham Young University

Keywords

juvenile book cover, illustrators, book market, children's book

College

Fine Arts and Communications

Department

Art

Abstract

The book market has long been the fine art gallery of illustrators. Portraits, landscapes, and characters set in beautiful historical and modern scenes are only a few of the genres that illustrators have explored through the medium of the book cover. Book illustration has a long visual history that has inspired readers for many generations. The flourishing tradition of children’s book illustration began with such artists as Howard Pyle and N.C.Wyeth whose timeless covers for classics, painted in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, are still printed today. This rich heritage gives illustrators a firm foundation from which to build images that will be cherished as classics by future generations.

Recommended Citation

Brown, Lisa Marie and Barrett, Robert (2013) "JUVENILE BOOK COVER ILLUSTRATION," Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2013: Iss. 1, Article 2153.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2013/iss1/2153