Walter Crane
British artist (1845-1915) · Artists · Died at 69
Walter Crane was an English artist and book illustrator. He is considered to be the most influential, and among the most prolific, children's book creators of his generation and, along with Randolph Caldecott and Kate Greenaway, one of the strongest contributors to the child's nursery motif that the genre of English...
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Portrait of young Walter Crane painted by his father
"A Garland for May Day 1895" woodcut
Crane's interest in Japanese art is evident in this 1874 cover of a toy book, printed by Edmund Evans.
Title page of Baby’s Own Aesop by Walter Crane, London, 1887
The Baby's Opera, a book of old rhymes and the music by the earliest masters book cover 1
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He is considered to be the most influential, and among the most prolific, children's book creators of his generation and, along with Randolph Caldecott and Kate Greenaway, one of the strongest contributors to the child's nursery motif that the genre of English children's illustrated literature would exhibit in its developmental stages in the later 19th century.
