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	Walter Crane - LoveToKnow 1911
		WALTER CRANE (1845-), English artist, second son of Thomas Crane, portrait painter and miniaturist, was born in Liverpool on the 15th of August 1845.
		Mr Crane became an associate of the Water Colour Society in 1888; he was an examiner of the science and art department at South Kensington; director of design at the Manchester Municipal school (1894); art director of Reading College (1896); and in 1898 for a short time principal of the Royal College of Art.
		There is a comprehensive and sumptuously illustrated book on The Art of Walter Crane, by P. Konody; a monograph (1902) by Otto von Schleinitz in the Kiinstler Monographien series (Bielefeld and Leipzig); and an account of himself by the artist in the Easter number of 1898 of the Art Journal.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Walter_Crane (810 words)

	Victorian Art in Britain
		Walter Crane was born at Maryland Street, Liverpool on 15 August 1845.
		Walter Crane became the semi-official artist to the whole developing labour movement, and his posters, and their iconography helped to shape the public perception of that movement.
		Crane was in charge of the British contribution to the International Exhibition of Decorative Art in Turin, and was the recipient of an honour from King Victor Emmanuel.
	www.victorianartinbritain.co.uk /biog/crane.htm (1180 words)

	Walter Crane
		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.
		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.
	www.iupui.edu /~engwft/crane.htm (886 words)

	Walter Crane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Walter Crane was born in Liverpool on 15 August 1845.
		The object of the body was to assist in the revival of arts and handicrafts currently occurring, and to draw attention to the craftsmen involved.
		Walter Crane is remembered today as one of the most important of all the children's book illustrators.
	www.speel.demon.co.uk /artists/crane.htm (430 words)

	Elizabeth Nesbitt Room Illusrators Project
		Born in Liverpool in 1845, Walter Crane was the son of portrait painter, miniaturist, and lithographer Thomas Crane.
		Walter Crane also expressed an admiration for the work of Greek potters and vase painters, which is reflected in his flowing draperies and in the classical dress and features of the people depicted in his illustrations.
		Crane also devoted much time to various artists' guilds and was influential in the Arts and Crafts Movement of the 1880's-1890's, in which craftsmen and designers worked together to raise the status of the applied arts.
	www.library.pitt.edu /libraries/is/enroom/illustrators/crane.htm (1811 words)

	Walter Crane - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Crane, Walter (1845-1915), English painter, designer, and illustrator, best known for his illustrations of children's books in a deliberately...
		Walter, Bruno, (1876-1962), German-born American conductor, known for his performances of the works of the Austrian composers Gustav Mahler, Anton...
		Walter Crane (August 15, 1845 - March 14, 1915) was an English artist.
	encarta.msn.com /Walter_Crane.html (164 words)

	John Cassidy, Matthew Noble, Walter Crane, Frank Hampson & James Lamb - Manchester Sculptors & Designers
		Walter Crane was born on 15 August 1845 in Liverpool, the son of Thomas Crane, was a successful local artist.
		Crane became an important and major influence in late-Victorian art and design in Britain, and was appointed Director of Design at the Manchester Municipal School of Art from 1893-1896 - he was instrumental in the establishment of the Art and Crafts Exhibition Society in 1888, and was their first President.
		In the 1860s Crane began to take an active interest in politics and was a supporter of the Liberal Party and some of their more radical politicians such as John Bright and William Gladstone and campaigned for the 1867 Reform Act.
	www.manchester2002-uk.com /celebs/artists4.html (1914 words)

	Walter Crane: artist and socialist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Walter Crane was one of the most prominent artists supporting the young socialist movements at the turn of the 19th to 20th Century.
		Crane's life (1845-1915) spans a period of reawakening in British art, when revaluation and questioning of its social purpose were being proposed by Ruskin in theory, and by his disciple, William Morris, in theory and practice.
		At first, Crane's reading of Shelley and of Liberal thinkers like J. Mill had aroused his creative, his artist's enthusiasm for the liberation of the imaginative potential in every person, and this led him to ponder the nature of a society in which such potential could be given full expression.
	www.wcml.org.uk /people/wcrane/crane.htm (1312 words)

	Walter Crane Biography \| Dictionary of Literary Biography
		Walter Crane was a Victorian illustrator, designer, poet, teacher, Socialist, and painter whose advocacy of affordable colored picture books helped influence the look of nineteenth-century British children's literature.
		Nevertheless, Crane remembered his childhood fondly and the times he spent catching butterflies, blowing up things in the garden with gunpowder, lying on the floor of his father's studio drawing, completing the study sketches his father made, and copying pictures from his father's books.
		Crane became known at a young age as an accomplished artist, and he received the position of apprentice as a result of some illustrations he had made that came to the atten.....
	www.bookrags.com /biography/walter-crane-dlb (212 words)

	Walter Crane
		Walter Crane was born in Liverpool on 15th August, 1845.
		Crane contributed illustrations for the party journal Justice that was edited by Henry Hyde Champion.
		Crane was a strong critic of the British Empire and after spending time with Annie Besant in India, wrote India Impressions (1907) that included severe criticisms of the way that the country was being ruled by the British.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Jcrane.htm (1633 words)

	We appraise, authenticate and issue certificates of authenticity for paintings by Walter Crane
		Walter Crane was an English golden age illustrator and artist, and was a member of the Arts and Crafts movement.
		Crane was born in Liverpool, the son of portrait painter and miniaturist Thomas Crane, and likely received some of his initial training from his father.
		Crane became involved in the Socialist movement in the 1880’s as a result of his friendship with writer and decorator William Morris.
	www.artexpertswebsite.com /pages/artists/crane.html (705 words)

	Biography for: Walter Crane
		Crane's interests were closely related to those of the Aesthetic Movement and from around 1870 onwards his designs show the joint influence of Japanese prints in terms of the flat colour and asymmetrical composition, and of classical sculpture in the figures and draperies.
		Crane was on friendly terms with JW and he and his wife were included in a list written by JW around the mid 1870s which may have been a guest list for the private view of JW's Pall Mall exhibition of 1874, or a subscription list for JW's Venice etchings as proposed in 1876 (transcription">#12714).
		Crane was responsible for designing the decor and costumes for Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera Patience (1881) which satirised the affectations of aestheticism.
	www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk /biog/Cran_W.htm (487 words)

	Walter Crane (1845-1915) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Walter Crane was born in Liverpool but spent his youth on the south coast and in London, and was apprenticed to W.
		Crane's first painting at the Royal Academy was The Lady of Shalott in 1862, but his strengths were in illustration and design, and by 1870 he was established as an illustrator of children's books and as a ceramic designer for Wedgewood.
		Walter Crane is perhaps most well known as an important children's book illustrator, he was also a painter.
	freespace.virgin.net /k.peart/Victorian/crane.htm (311 words)

	Glossary of People: Cr
		Walter Crane was born in Liverpool in 1845.
		In the 1860s Crane became more politically active as a supporter of the radical wing of the Liberal Party and by the time of the Paris Commune in 1871, he was a socialist.
		Crane's belief that socialism could be achieved through reforms led him to also join the Fabians for a time, where he associated with George Bernard Shaw and the Webbs, but broke with them later their decision not to oppose the Boer War.
	www.marxists.org /glossary/people/c/r.htm (887 words)

	Walter Crane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Walter Crane was born in a well-to-do family.
		These testified to Crane's socialist convictions, and depicted the opposing forces in the class struggle in an allegorical fashion.
		Cartoons for the Cause, a collection of Crane's best political cartoons, were published in 1896 on the occasion of an important international congress of socialist organizations in London.
	www.iisg.nl /exhibitions/art/craneleven.html (204 words)

	nocloo.com - Children's Book Illustrators, Illustrations - Walter Crane Biography
		Walter Crane was the first of the grand triumvirate in children’s book illustration who worked under the tutelage of the English printer Edmund Evans.
		Crane, the son of an artist, developed his artistic talents from an early age and at seventeen exhibited at London’s Royal Academy.
		Crane’s first children’s books, The House that Jack Built and Dame Trot and Her Comical Gat, were published in 1865 when he was twenty and were followed by more than forty books for children over the course of his career.
	www.nocloo.com /home/biography/walter-crane-biography-2.html (697 words)

	Walter Crane Linen Set from Hill House Antiques (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Superb and rare Walter Crane damask linen set with bird and tree design very much in the manner of CFA Voysey/MH Baillie-Scott.
		They are all signed in the border "designed by Walter Crane, London".
		Walter Crane was an extremely important exponant of Arts & Crafts design.
	www.hillhouse-antiques.co.uk /popup.asp?pid=419 (222 words)

	Walter Crane
		Walter Crane was born in Liverpool on 15 August 1845.
		The object of the body was to assist in the revival of arts and handicrafts currently occurring, and to draw attention to the craftsmen involved.
		Walter Crane is remembered today as one of the most important of all the children's book illustrators.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /speel/illus/crane.htm (437 words)

	Walter Crane, Oil Paintings, Walter Crane Biography & Walter Crane Gallery
		Walter Crane is considered today as one of the most important children's book illustrators as well as influential designer and socialist artist.
		There Crane had become interested in politics and in the 1860s he began to be active.
		Walter Crane died on 14th March, 1915, three months after his wife Mary was killed by a train.
	www.huntfor.com /absoluteig/Crane.htm (205 words)

	Geometry.Net - Artists: Crane Walter
		Cr Crane Walter (1845-1915) Walter Crane was born in Liverpool in 1845.
		Walter climbs a monumental crane In 2000 we were invited for the NCRV programme "Man bijt hond".
		Crane's first painting at the Royal Academy was The Lady of Shalott In 1888 Crane was instrumental in the establishment of the Art and Crafts Exhibition Society, of which he was the first President.
	www4.geometry.net /detail/artists/crane_walter.html (2404 words)

	The Death of the Year by Walter Crane, RWS 1845-1915
		Crane's works, like those of the other artists, were regularly rejected by the Royal Academy, so the circle exhibited together at the more liberal Dudley Gallery.
		Crane's work appeared singular to the average Victorian and in this period he met the usual reception given to artistic innovators.
		Crane approached Renaissance painting in the same romantic manner as Burne-Jones and this is expressed in the moody landscape, the stylised figures and the processional composition of the 'Death of the Year'.
	www.victorianweb.org /painting/crane/drawings/1.html (1138 words)

	USM de Grummond Collection - WALTER CRANE PAPERS
		As a young boy, Crane spent many of his days in the studio of his father, a lithographer and portrait artist, sketching the hands and feet of his father's commissions.
		Crane's travels took him all across the European continent and even to America, where his work was greatly admired.
		Crane and his family visited this spot on the extreme western point of Pembrokeshire in Wales at the insistence of one of his colleagues, Mrs.
	www.lib.usm.edu /~degrum/html/research/findaids/crane.htm (672 words)

	AIM25: Senate House Library, University of London: CRANE, Walter (1845-1915)
		Administrative/Biographical history: Walter Crane was born in Liverpool on 15 Aug 1845, second son of the portrait painter Thomas Crane and his wife Marie née Kearsley.
		Crane was influenced by the Aesthetic Movement and by Japanese prints, as well as the Pre-Raphaelites and in particular Edward Burne-Jones.
		By the 1870s, Crane was involved in decorative design including creating ceramics (for Wedgwood, Pilkington and Maw and Co.), wallpapers (for Jeffrey and Co.), and textiles as well as exhibiting paintings.
	www.aim25.ac.uk /cats/14/7512.htm (667 words)

	Walter Crane - MSN Encarta
		Walter Crane (1845-1915), English painter, designer, and illustrator, best known for his illustrations of children's books in a deliberately archaic style.
		Born in Liverpool, he studied miniature painting and wood engraving in his youth.
		Crane also taught art, directed three art schools, and wrote on aesthetics.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761578740/Crane_Walter.html (133 words)

	ART / 4 / 2DAY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Walter Crane was born in Liverpool, son of the portrait miniaturist, Thomas Crane.
		Walter Crane was primarily a designer and book illustrator, specializing in children's books.
		Crane's later watercolors of slightly menacing wooded landscapes and vague but sinister mythical events represent a world which the artist has dreamt of rather than visited.
	www.jcanu.hpg.ig.com.br /art/art4aug/art0815.html (3251 words)

	Walter Crane (1845 - 1915) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Walter Crane worked in a variety mediums throughout his career including illustration, design, and writing but is best known for his work as an illustrator of children’s books.
		Walter Crane, First illustration, on unnumbered page 1, of The Absurd ABC in the book The Marquis of Carabas" Picture Book by Walter Crane/printed in colours by Edmund Evans (London: George Routledge and Sons, n.d.
		Walter Crane, Fourth illustration, on unnumbered pages 4 and 5, of The Absurd ABC in the book The Marquis of Carabas" Picture Book by Walter Crane/printed in colours by Edmund Evans (London: George Routledge and Sons, n.d.
	wwar.com /masters/c/crane-walter.html (1922 words)

	Walter Crane's The Faerie Queene - Illuminated borders and initial capital letters vector eps
		Walter Crane's The Faerie Queene - Illuminated borders and initial capital letters vector eps
		Second son of Thomas Crane, portrait painter and miniaturist, The family soon removed to Torquay, where the boy gained his early artistic impressions, and, when he was twelve years old, to London.
		A set of coloured page designs to illustrate Tennyson's " Lady of Shalott " gained the approval of William James Linton, the wood-engraver, to whom Walter Crane was apprenticed for three years (1859-1862).
	www.illuminatedbooks.com /en/walter_crane.htm (776 words)

	Crane, Walter on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Crane's interest in socialism is expressed in his cartoons for Commonweal and Justice.
		Arts Minister places temporary export bar on the Walter Crane archive.
		Buckhead stands still as man lingers on crane Busy Peachtree Road blocked off, prime business district reduced to a ghost town as drama enters second day while police try to coax Florida murder suspec
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/C/Crane-W1a.asp (364 words)

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