He married Mary Frances Andrews and had few children in 1871, but two of them died after few years his wife died too. He was so devastated and he died in 1915.
I would like to say that Walter Crane is mostly remembered and known as illustrator for a children's books in the world. I checked some book covers and I found out that for the book cover he usually used decorative patterns or repeating illustrated pictures in usually in one or max. two colors , but that is not always used in all book covers , you can find some books with colorful covers and with more illustrated not repeating pictures. As a painter he has done beautiful job , his paintings are in galleries all over the world . In terms of painting he did lots of different concepts like mythological or scenes from normal life or religion stuff also letters decorating or nature scenes like landscapes or fields or woods , mountains or portraits of women , fighters or animals and all of those concepts were done in different drawing and illustrating techniques. In terms of book covers he uses basically black thick line to make a profile of anything and few colors and it always looks flat , but in terms of painting he uses very big palette of colors and no black lines , he does shadowing which makes depth in the pictures. I would say that 95% of arstists are influenced by someone I think Walter Crane was as well , but I guess he was not influenced by some famous artist from history but simply by his father who was successful artist and his friends he met in London , because I see in his work own movements and rules , I see he tried to improve his own way , for instance book covers , I checked some other people who worked and designed with book covers but I didn't find anybody who was similar to Walter Crane , I think he invented this style of book covers which were used in the Czechoslovakie in 1970's 1980's or 1990's for the children's books for example . At Walter Crane's older age he went thru hell because his children died and his wife died as well and that changed him and also his art , he was so devasteted that he stopped with painting and decorating and in 1915 he died .
He died as the most known book designer fron the United Kingdom and left big mark in field of art.
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Walter Crane ,
My Soul Is an Enchanted Boat
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Walter Crane(1892)
In the Beach House
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Walter Crane(1883) Diana and Endymion
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Walter Crane(1910) The Capitalist Vampire [Online]. Available at: ( http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jcrane3.JPG (Accessed: 25 MArch 2011).
Walter Crane(1885) A Poser for Britannia [Online]. Available at: ( http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jcrane2.JPG (Accessed: 25 MArch 2011).
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ishtar0606 (2010) Walter Crane , Available at : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bFCT4OSZgs ( Accessed : 11 May 2011 )
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Walter CranRe was born inLiverpool on 15th August, 1845. Walter's father, Thomas Crane, was a moderately successful artist. In 1851 the family moved to London with the hope that this would provide Crane with more clients. Unfortunately, just as business was improving, Thomas Crane died.
Soon after his father's death Walter Crane obtained an apprenticeship at William Linton's engraving shop. William Linton had been a member of the Chartis movement in the 1840s and his stories of the struggle for parliamentary reform, had an important influence on Crane's early political development.
Linton was impressed by the quality of Crane's work and helped to find him commissions. This included providing the illustrations for J. R. Wise's book on the New Forest. Crane went to live with Wise for six weeks while he was working on the pictures.
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Walter Crane was an artist and writer who lived between 1845 and 1915. He designed all kinds of things, including books, wallpapers, textiles, clothing and ceramics. Walter also painted many pictures and produced political cartoons for the Socialist Party.
Walter Crane was born in Liverpool on 15 August, 1845 to Thomas Crane and Marie Kearsley.
Walter’s Father, Thomas, was an artist who often painted landscapes, animals and portraits. He also illustrated a number of books, including the nursery rhyme, ‘The History of Mr Pig and Miss Crane' which was published in 1836.
Because of his father’s bad health, Walter and his family went to live by the sea in Torquay when he was only three months old. Walter’s happy childhood in Torquay was often spent watching the boats coming into the harbour, visiting circuses, catching butterflies and playing on the fun-fair.
When Walter was 11, he and his brother were sent to a boys’ school. The schoolmaster, Mr Page, was very strict and often used his cane to beat the children. Walter didn’t like his school and particularly dreaded mathematics.
Walter showed his artistic talent at a young age and often sat in his father’s studio, drawing portraits of gentlemen wearing fancy tartan or floral waistcoats. His father encouraged him to draw and had many art books and prints which Walter liked to look at.
As Thomas Crane’s health improved, the family decided to move to London in 1857. When Walter left his school, he handed out drawings of medieval knights and battles to his school friends.
When Walter and his family moved to London, his parents decided that he didn’t need to go to school and could be taught at home. Walter was very pleased, as this meant he could spend more time sketching.
When Walter was 14 he became the apprentice of the famous engraver, William James Linton. Apprentices worked for their masters for a number of years. Walter was set to work drawing pictures onto blocks of wood. The engravers would then carve the image into the wood to make a print.
Usually, the parents of the apprentice had to pay for them to work with their masters. As Linton was so impressed with Walter’s work, he didn’t take any payment from his father.
Walter often drew scenes from everyday subjects and was occasionally sent out as a press artist to record important events like courtroom scenes. Although Walter found this interesting, his shyness meant that he hated drawing in public.
Walter married his wife, Mary Frances Andrews, in 1871. After their marriage, Mary and Walter went on honeymoon to Italy and didn’t return until two years later!
Their first child, Beatrice, was born in 1873. Their two sons, Lionel and Lancelot were born in 1876 and 1880. Mary and Walter also had two other children who died when they were very young. Walter’s family can often be seen in his book illustrations and paintings
Walter was very interested in costume and designed clothing, some of which was for members of his own family. He also enjoyed fancy dress and often had costume parties at his own house.
Walter Crane produced a large variety of work throughout his life including paintings, ceramics, textiles and political cartoons. He also designed entire rooms for people, including wallpapers, curtains, carpets, ornaments and furniture.
Walter was always working, thinking up new ideas for paintings, books and designs and sketching wherever he went. He also taught art and design at various places including the Royal College of Art, London and Manchester Art School.
Walter was highly regarded both in the UK and abroad. He won several international awards for his work and had many exhibitions in places like America, Hungary and Germany.
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Walter Crane was primarily a designer and book illustrator, specialising in children's books. He was born in Liverpool on 15 August 1845, moving to London with his family in 1857. After a period during which he worked on illustrations for a poem of Tennyson, he became apprenticed to the famous wood engraver William James Linton and studied drawing in his spare time. In 1862 he exhibited The Lady of Shalott at the Royal Academy. His first illustrated book, The New Forest, was published the following year.
He was a great admirer of Edward Burne-Jones, whose work he first saw at the Old Watercolour Society in 1865. In his autobiography he recalled what a deep impression Burne-Jones' pictures made upon him:
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(born Aug. 15, 1845, Liverpool, Eng. — died March 14, 1915, Horsham) English illustrator, painter, and designer. The son of a portrait painter, he studied Italian Old Masters and Japanese prints. The ideas of the Pre-Raphaelites and John Ruskin inspired his early paintings. He achieved international popularity designing Art Nouveau textiles and wallpapers but is chiefly known for his illustrations of children's books. In 1894 he worked with William Morris on The Story of the Glittering Plain, a book printed in the style of 16th-century German and Italian woodcuts. He belonged to the Art Workers' Guild, and in 1888 he founded the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society. See also Arts and Crafts Movement.
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Crane was one of the most popular Victorian illustrators of children's books, and one of the earliest exponents of the colored picture book, which he designed in collaboration with Edmund Evans. Historically, the special significance of the Crane-Evans collaboration was the production of a series of charming books, each one a complete unit, designed from cover to cover, which could be bought cheaply. In 1863, Crane did covers for 'yellow back' cheap novels for Evans, and then, from about 1865, children's picture books, in the series of "Toy Books" Evans was producing for the publishers Warne and Routledge. The books usually measured 10 1/2" x 9" and were made up of six pages of text and six of illustrations printed in color on one side of the page (though usually there was very little reading matter). Toy books needed huge print orders to keep their price low; George Routledge alleged that he would only begin to make a profit on a title if he sold more than 50,000, and a first print order of 10,000 was common. These series were immensely successful, and they were still being issued in bound collections twenty-five years after their first appearance. Although they were mass-produced, they still maintained a high level of craftsmanship. In all Crane designed some fifty of these books, which were the most popular children's books of the day.
Crane's style was a mixture of influences: he shared with the Pre-Raphaelites affection for medieval design and subject matter as well as Renaissance art - especially furniture and interior decoration. Crane was also influenced by Japanese prints and endeavored to bring their definite block outlines and flat, brilliant, as well as delicate colors to children's books. Crane devoted a great deal of thought to the kind of designs that he believed would appeal to children, and his particular style is consistent with these theories. He wrote: "Children, like the ancient Egyptians, appear to see most things in profile, and like definite statements in design. They prefer well-defined forms and bright, frank color. They don't want to bother about three dimensions. They can accept symbolic representations. They themselves employ drawing... as a kind of picture-writing, and eagerly follow a pictured story (Meyer, 88)." He believed that during the first years of life, the child's imagination must be continually and freshly stimulated with bright color, sensitive line, and symbolic imagery.
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Walter Crane is remembered today as one of the most important of all the children's book illustrators. His books are rather collectable but because of the huge print runs are still relatively easily available. His designs are also found in many periodicals of the day, and crop up in exhibitions of arts and crafts, for example in the William Morris Gallery. Regarding his paintings, many of his most important ones were bought by German collectors, and I believe these have ended up in public museums there. But the excellent At Home is in Leeds.
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