Arthur Rackham
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Arthur Rackham's tinted ink drawings for Rip Van Winkle in 1905, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens and Grimms' fairy tales, with gnarled trees that have faces and spindly goblins, defined the look of the Edwardian gift book. New colour printing let his muted washes be reproduced faithfully. His creepy-lovely forests still shape how fairy tales are pictured, and influenced later artists from Disney to Guillermo del Toro.
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