FREE DELIVERY ON ALL UK ORDERS IN AUGUST - FAST UK DELIVERY (next working day) AND OVERSEAS BY AIR COURIER (usually 5 working days) Welcome to The Illustration Art Gallery!The world's largest gallery of the original paintings, drawings and sketches created to illustrate books, magazines, graphic novels, comic strips, cartoons and newspaper strips!Just some of the recent additions to our Gallery ... William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson (Original) (Signed) Artist: Paul Rainer | |  George Bernard Shaw - Pygmalion (Original) (Signed) Artist: Paul Rainer | |  Famous Sayings: Voltaire (Original) (Signed) Artist: Paul Rainer |
|  Abraham Lincoln meets Harriet Beecher Stowe (Original) Artist: John Keay | |  Fantastic Four Issue 55 Cover Re-Creation (Original) Artist: Bambos (Georgiou) | |  King John and the Magna Carta (Original) Artist: Richard Hook |
|  Le Fort de la Pompelle (Original) (Signed) Artist: Agricole Louis Montagné | |  The Regency Guest (Original) (Signed) Artist: Fortunino Matania | |  Boeing Apache AH-64 attack helicopter (Original) (Signed) Artist: Keith Fretwell |
|  Learning to Ride (Original) (Signed) Artist: Fortunino Matania | |  Carol Day newspaper strip # 2679 (Original) Artist: David Wright | |  The Horse Grenadiers (Original) (Signed) Artist: Eric Parker |
|  El Loco Sexton: Squaw page 1 (Original) Artist: Arturo del Castillo | |  The Long Descent (Original) Artist: Don Lawrence | |  Lost and Found (Original) (Signed) Artist: Grew |
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AUGUST 201430+ additions this month including superb depictions of famous authors and their quotations, scientists, plus scenes from history by Paul Rainer and more of his lively and popular Marvel and DC comics Cover Re-creations by Bambos with more art to come later this month!
Enjoy them all in our Latest Slideshow or see a selection of our latest art. Explore our unique ARCHIVE of over 4,000 art works. |
| We give you the very best from the wide, sometimes overlooked, world of illustration art, including original artwork for comics (comic books) and annuals, book covers and illustrations, graphic novels, magazines, film animation cels, newspaper and comic strips, poster art, album cover art, superb fine art reproductions and high quality art prints.
Our gallery brings together the work of artists from all over the world and from many genres, including fantasy, horror, science fiction, education, history, nature, technology, humour, romance, glamour, architecture, whimsy and even political satire and caricature. |  |
| Our art is Original, that is the unique art work painted or drawn by the artist for use in a publication or poster. We do also have a selection of Prints including many Limited Editions. As you will see, illustrators are not shy of employing many techniques and media in their quest to communicate and entertain, so we are pleased to offer watercolour, pen and ink, oil, wash, gouache, pencil, acrylic, crayon, giclée, mixed media and charcoal, amongst others.
We have over 30 years experience in sourcing and selling original illustration art and are very proud to have this showcase of wonderful art. With over 600 featured artists, we hope you enjoy browsing our gallery ... and of course, everything you see is for sale (except in the archive)! |  |
| From the beginning of the 20th century demand for original art to illustrate books, magazines and comics grew dramatically, especially with the advent of mass printing and production techniques. In the 1920s and 1930s a few artists in the UK and the USA (where the demand for magazine illustration grew enormously) became household names and their work commands huge sums of money.
Names in the USA such as NC Wyeth, Frank Schoonover, Maxfield Parrish, Jessie Wilcox Smith, and in England names such as Arthur Rackham, Edmund Dulac, Willy Pogany, EH Shepard, Mabel Lucie Attwell, William Heath Robinson and Louis Wain are all widely known and respected. |  |
| These artists represent a tiny fraction of an enormous body of art seldom if ever seen in its original form. Art commissioned and created for books and periodicals has always been celebrated in its printed form, but the publishers - and often the artists themselves - have not realised the enormous appeal of the originals. The public often have not even been aware that originals exist and are available to own and enjoy.
Hundreds of thousands of original drawings and paintings have over the years been lost or destroyed by publishers through a lack of interest or imagination, despite the fact that many of the images created are already 20th century icons.
Our aim is to present the wide variety of illustration art in all its various forms for the collector and fan alike to own and enjoy. New art is added to the Gallery every month. |  |
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US dollar ($) and euro (€) prices are approximate, based on exchange rates of £1 = $1.60 and £1 = €1,20 |
