Notable Poster Artists & Illustrators, “L...-”
for classrooms, homeschoolers, and decor.

Herrade de Landsberg
b. 1130; Alsace
d. 7-25-1195

Herrade de Landsberg, a 12th century Alsatian nun and abbess, was the author of Hortus Deliciarum (The Garden of Delights), a pictorial encyclopedia of 336 illustrations of all the sciences studied at that time, including theology.

Edward Lear
b. 5-12-1812; London, England
d. 1-29-1888; Sanremo, Italy (heart disease)

Edward Lear, best known today for his poetic and prose literary nonsense, especially limericks was also an accomplished artist, not only illustrating his work but also deplicting birds and his trips around the Mediterranean, Greece, Egypt, India and Ceylon. He was once called to court to give Queen Victoria drawing lessons.

There was an old man who said, “Hush! I Perceive a Young Bird in This Bush! ”-
When they said, “Is it small?” he replied, “Not at all! It is four times as big as the bush!”

• The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense

John Leech
b. 8-29-1817; London, England
d. 10-29-1864

Illustrator and caricaturist John Leech, whose genius at drawing observed at age three, began publishing comic character studies when he was eighteen. Leech, best remembered as the cartoonist for Punch magazine, did etching for the literary magazine Bentley's Miscellany which included illustrations for The Ingoldsby Legends.

• FYI - The jackdaw is a passerine bird in the species Corvus, the genus of crows and ravens. The Jackdaw of Rheims is about a jackdaw who steals a cardinal's ring and is made a saint.

Alfred Leete
b. 8-28-1882; Thorpe Achurch, Northamptonshire, England
d. 6-17-1933; London (cerebral hemorrhage)

Alfred Leete, a printer who turned illustrator, is best remembered for designing the “Lord Kitchener Wants You” World War I recruiting poster.

The poster has been imitated numerous times - an authorative figure pointing his finger directly at you and demanding your loyalty - is a powerful piece of propaganda art.

Roy Lichtenstein
b. 10-27-1923; NYC
d. 9-29-1997; NYC

Roy Lichtenstein was a leader in the ‘Pop Art’ movement that was influenced by popular advertising and the comic book style. Lichtenstein described Pop art as, “not ‘American’ painting but actually industrial painting”.

Roy Lichtenstein quote ~
• “I'm not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I don't really want it to carry one. I'm not interested in the subject matter to try to teach society anything, or to try to better our world in any way.”
• “We're not living in a school-of-Paris world, you know, and the things we really see in America are like this. It's McDonald's, it's not Le Corbusier.”
• “What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.”

Dennis Loren
b. 1946; Detroit

Musician and artist Dennis Loren created works for Jimi Hendrix, the Velvet Underground, and Paul McCartney.

Jane Loudon, née Webb
b. 8-19-1807; England
d. 1858

Jane Loudon is best known for illustrations and co-authoring gardening manuals with her husband, and not for being a pioneer in science fiction. Her novel Mummy! was written to support herself at age 17, when her father died penniless.

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