Bill Donovan

Wow- love his simplicity in his strokes of ink/paint and his color sense. Great forms and sense of composition...

Bill Donovan

The Beautiful illustrations of Virginia Sterrett

Just came across Virginia Sterrett's work, a dazzlingly talented female illustrator, and am just in love with her stuff. A contemporary of Kay Nielsen, she illustrated beautiful illustrations for a variety of picture books in the 1920s, including Tanglewood Tales, Old French Fairy Tales, and Arabian Nights.

She died remarkably young at only 31 of tuberculosis, and I found it so impressive to read her life story (especially being a female artist myself, working in California, like she did)- she was truly a talent- hope you find her as inspiring as I do! I love the way she handles the female form, the colors, the art deco lines, and the content (fairy tales, etc)

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Tammis Keefe

My friend Sandra posted about this amazing 1950s textile designer, Tammis Keefe, and I found her stuff to be so beautiful and simple! They evoke such a whimsical sense of style, design and color sense.

Here is a fantastic set of her stuff over on flickr- these are just a small sampling of some of her stuff!