Robert Lawson’s Soul

Categories: Art

[Note: This is the first in a series of essays on illustrators who were very influential on Craven as a child.] To know a little about the soul of children's illustrator Robert Lawson, you have only to look at the traces he left in graphite and ink in his drawings, which adorned almost 50 books during a 30-year career. Although the physical body it occupied died more than half a century ago, that soul still sings in the gentle washes and intricate ... Read More