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Rackham, Arthur
(1867–1939)
painter and illustrator
Arthur Rackham was born in 1867 into a Victorian age that he
perpetuated and documented by way of his art. He was one of twelve
children. He studied at the City of London School where he won prizes
and a reputation for his art. At the age of 18, he became a clerk. It
was, after all, a Dickensian world as well, where clerks played a
significant role in both fiction and real life. He clerked and in his
spare time studied at the Lambeth School of Art. He made occasional
sales to the illustrated magazines of the day like Scraps and Chums. In
1891 and 1892, he had a close association with the Pall Mall Budget as
one of this weekly's main illustrative reporters. He was competent.
It was the last book Rackham illustrated. He had agreed to deliver the
watercolors to the publisher in the spring of 1938, but at that time he
had to undergo surgery for cancer. He continued the job nevertheless,
able toward the end to work only half an hour a day, and finished in the
late summer of 1939, just before England declared war on Germany. On
September 7, he died.
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1867-1939
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