Pauline Baynes
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Pauline Diana Baynes was an English illustrator, author, and commercial artist. She contributed drawings and paintings to more than 200 books, mostly in the children's genre. She was the first illustrator of some of J. R. R.
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Even in her old age, Baynes never forgot the sights and sounds of Mussoorie.
An illustration by Edmund Dulac, one of Baynes's inspirations![An illustration by Arthur Rackham. In 1961, Tolkien urged Baynes to "avoid the Scylla of Blyton and the Charybdis of Rackham - though to go to wreck on the latter would be the less evil fate".[12]](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Cormoran_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_17034.jpg/500px-Cormoran_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_17034.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
An illustration by Arthur Rackham. In 1961, Tolkien urged Baynes to "avoid the Scylla of Blyton and the Charybdis of Rackham - though to go to wreck on the latter would be the less evil fate".[12]![Baynes's illustration The Hoard for J. R. R. Tolkien's 1962 book The Adventures of Tom Bombadil. The image was Baynes's favourite among the book's illustrations, but it disappointed Tolkien as he felt both the figures were implausible: the knight should have had a shield and helmet, while the dragon should have been watching the cave's entrance.[12][15]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/51/The_Hoard_by_Pauline_Baynes.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
Baynes's illustration The Hoard for J. R. R. Tolkien's 1962 book The Adventures of Tom Bombadil. The image was Baynes's favourite among the book's illustrations, but it disappointed Tolkien as he felt both the figures were implausible: the knight should have had a shield and helmet, while the dragon should have been watching the cave's entrance.[12][15]![C. S. Lewis, seeking a suitable artist who could draw children and animals, felt that Baynes would meet the requirement.[9] Here, she shows the children being drawn in to a painting of the Dawn Treader and the enchanted world of Narnia. She illustrated all seven Narnia books.[44]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f5/Entering_the_Dawn_Treader.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
C. S. Lewis, seeking a suitable artist who could draw children and animals, felt that Baynes would meet the requirement.[9] Here, she shows the children being drawn in to a painting of the Dawn Treader and the enchanted world of Narnia. She illustrated all seven Narnia books.[44]![Lewis recorded that he had difficulty convincing Baynes that "rowers face aft" in a boat, not forwards.[55]](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Tambar%2C_a_20_feet_Faroese_wooden_boat%2C_belonging_to_the_rowing_club_R%C3%B3%C3%B0rarfelagi%C3%B0_Kn%C3%B8rrur._Photo_by_%C3%93lavur_Frederiksen%2C_July_21%2C_2019.jpg/1280px-Tambar%2C_a_20_feet_Faroese_wooden_boat%2C_belonging_to_the_rowing_club_R%C3%B3%C3%B0rarfelagi%C3%B0_Kn%C3%B8rrur._Photo_by_%C3%93lavur_Frederiksen%2C_July_21%2C_2019.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
Lewis recorded that he had difficulty convincing Baynes that "rowers face aft" in a boat, not forwards.[55]Awards 1
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Pauline Diana Baynes was an English illustrator, author, and commercial artist. She contributed drawings and paintings to more than 200 books, mostly in the children's genre. She was the first illustrator of some of J. R. R. Tolkien's minor works, including Farmer Giles of Ham, Smith of Wootton Major, and The Adventures of Tom Bombadil. She became well known for her cover illustrations for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and for her poster map with inset illustrations, A Map of Middle-earth. She illustrated all seven volumes of C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia, from the first book, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Gaining a reputation as the "Narnia artist", she illustrated spinoffs like Brian Sibley's The Land of Narnia. In addition to work for other authors, including illustrating Roger Lancelyn Green's The Tales of Troy and Iona and Peter Opie's books of nursery rhymes, Baynes created some 600 illustrations for Grant Uden's A Dictionary of Chivalry, for which she won the Kate Greenaway Medal. Late in her life she began to write and illustrate her own books, with animal or Biblical themes.
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