Yoshiharu Suzuki VIII

 

This version of Aesops Fables is pure joy, the colours, visual space and techniques are beautiful. It is from   "World Stories: Aesop" written by Toshiko Iijima, and illustrated by Yoshiharu Suzuki published in 1969 

Ryohei Yanagihara II

 'The Three Police Officers' by William Penn DuBois, illustrated by Ryohei Yanagihara (1931-2015), published in 1965. Funny, moustached police dress as fish to thwart a heist.

Andrea Antinori VII

 

Gambe all’aria, written by Daniele Movarelli, illustrated by Andrea Antinori and published by Giralangolo 2023.  Andrea's wonderful colours and funny and fantastic illustrations support Daniele's modern fairytale, a story that is pure fantasy,  fun,  an ode to openness to diversity, to the impossible becoming possible. 

David Shillinglaw

 

'Only Human' has been David Shillinglaw's passion, exhibition and now book. 

"We are Only Human.

We share the same sun. We breathe the same air.

"We are all connected by an invisible thread. Each of us are part and particle of an organism floating in space…“We are a way for the universe to know itself.” - Carl Sagan."

 

James Edward Deeds, Jr

 

Seamlessly from yesterdays post we move to the terrible story of James Edward Deeds, Jr (1908-1987), with these incredible drawings on pages of ledgers and hospital stationary from the asylum where James was interned for over 54 years of his life. At 64 in declining health he was moved to a nursing home where he spent the last 14 years of his life. I have selected some of his animal drawings, though he has multiple drawings of boats of people, engineering and trees. There is a book published of his work called the Electric pencil due to the electroconvulsive therapy he suffered.

Deeds lovingly bound his artwork in a cardboard and leather portfolio, a present for his mother. After being accidentally discarded in 1970, the album was miraculously rescued from the trash by a young boy and, thirty-six years later, came into the hands of artist and collector Harris Diamant.

 

Anon

I came across this monkey image (which is a lion) this morning and it made me happy and so I am sharing this interesting anonymous work. The first three images are from one book where the lion transforms into a Griffin and then a child snatching eagle, though it looks like an African grey parrot which also gives me joy. These are from the Metropolitan Museum New York circa 1830. The images are accompanied by verse I will let the curator explain here.
 

The second book is a version of Eden with Adam, transforming into Eve who transforms into a mermaid.

Tatsuo Ikeda 池田龍雄 III

 

Illustrations from the monthly picture book 'Asobi' (Play) The story of Tom, Vol. 14, No. 6, 1960, by Tatsuo Ikeda.

Tatsuo Ikeda 池田龍雄 II

 

This book is 1959 and I am still on my quest to answer who is Tatsuo Ikeda the illustrator. On the Japanese site where I found this the administrator does believe it to be the same person as the artist Tatsuo Ikeda and in the swirl of the dark forest I do see similarities, but find it odd that no one has mentioned a quite extensive repertoire of illustrated children's literature. Plus the signature's though similar differ in that the illustrations have, 'Ike' and paintings full 'Ikeda'.