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Name
  
Edward Mortelmans


Role
  
Artist

Edward Mortelmans Freeing the Captives by Edward Mortelmans at the Illustration Art

Books
  
Spion Kop, Famous Explorers, Kings & Queens

Edward Mortelmans (1915–2008) was an English artist and illustrator. His primary modes of expression were watercolor and black and white line drawings. He is best known for illustrating some books by Gerald Durrell ,and covers for books by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Edward Mortelmans Edward Mortelmans at the Illustration Art Gallery

Mortelmans was a watercolor artist, who commercially practiced cover artistry and book illustration, mostly for a visual audience of children and young adults. He illustrated the cover for a number of E. R. Burroughs paperback editions for Four Square Books including The Son of Tarzan, The Beasts of Tarzan and Lost on Venus. He did some magazine work, including cover design for the first American pulp magazine, Argosy. He has also been associated with illustrating several series, like the Twenty Names series of Hodder and Stoughton, How and Why Wonder Books of Corgi Books and the Oxford Graded Readers series of Oxford University Press. He has produced commissioned art for the British Railways. Edward Mortelmans' illustrations have been critically acclaimed.

References

Edward Mortelmans Wikipedia


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