John Austen (illustrator), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

John Austen (illustrator)

British artist and book illustrator

Date of Birth: 05-Jan-1886

Place of Birth: Dover, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 27-Oct-1948

Profession: illustrator, printmaker

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About John Austen (illustrator)

  • John Archibald Austen (Dover (Kent), 5 January 1886 – Hythe (Kent), 27 October 1948) was an English book illustrator.
  • His early works, including a fine Hamlet, were Beardsleyesque in style, but after 1925 he was influenced by the Art Deco movement.
  • Books which he illustrated in this manner include Daphnis and Chloe and As You Like it.
  • Austen used several techniques in his illustrations, including wood-engraving and scraperboard, and changed styles to suit the text he was illustrating.
  • He was also involved in advertising, producing adverts, several posters & numerous dustwrapper designs.
  • He was a friend of Alan Odle and Harry Clarke and exhibited with them at the St George's Gallery in 1925.
  • The novelist Dorothy Richardson wife of Alan Odle wrote about him in John Austen and the Inseparables (London: William Jackson, 1930). Issue 27 of The Imaginative Book Illustration Society's Studies in Illustration contains a biography & full bibliography by Martin Steenson.*

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