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Stephen Gammell is an American illustrator of children's books.

He won the 1989 Caldecott Medal for U.S. picture book

illustration.

He started his career with freelance commercial work, but

became interested in children's book illustration. He has

illustrated over fifty titles. Gammell is particularly well known

for the surreal, unsettling illustrations he provided for Scary

Stories to Tell in the Dark, a series of horror short stories by Alvin

Schwartz that is still an adolescent favorite. However, some

consider the illustrations to be too violent for young readers.

“One Sunday Morning”

If you ever read Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark as a child,

then you too, may be haunted to this day by the ghastly

illustrations they contained. The drawing by artist Stephen

Gammell brought the words by Alvin Schwartz to horrific

life, and we suspect are a large part of why it was the most

frequently challenged book for library banning from 1990-

1999.

“The Girl who stood on a Grave” ~ Stephen Gammell

Alan Lee is an English book illustrator and movie conceptual designer.

Lee has illustrated dozens of fantasy books, including some nonfiction, and many more covers. Among the most notable interiors are several works of J.R.R. Tolkien: the centenary edition of The Lord of the Rings & a 1995 edition of The Hobbit.

“Front façade of Barad-dûr” ~ Alan Lee

“Rivendell” ~ Alan Lee

Albrecht Dürer was a German painter, engraver, printmaker,

mathematician, and theorist from Nuremberg. His high-quality

woodcuts (nowadays often called Meisterstiche or "master

prints") established his reputation and influence across Europe

when he was still in his twenties, and he has been conventionally

regarded as the greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance ever

since. The woodcuts, such as the Apocalypse series (1498), retain

a more Gothic flavour (medieval) than the rest of his work.

Albrecht Dürer - St Michael's Fight Against The Dragon

“The Revelation of St John: The Battle of the Angels” ~ Albrecht Dürer

His watercolours also mark him as one of the first

European landscape artists, while his ambitious woodcuts

revolutionized the potential of that medium. Dürer's

introduction of classical motifs into Northern art, through

his knowledge of Italian artists and German humanists, has

secured his reputation as one of the most important

figures of the Northern Renaissance. This is reinforced by

his theoretical writings, which involve principles of

mathematics, perspective and ideal proportions.