Robert M. Peak was an American commercial illustrator. He is best known for his developments in the design of the modern film poster.
Alan E. Cober, born in New York City was an American illustrator. His artwork appeared in The New York Times, Life, Time and numerous other publications. Cober was inducted into the Illustration Hall of Fame in 2011, thirteen years after his death in 1998. Cober was frequently cited as one of the most innovative illustrators America has ever produced.
Joe Ciardiello is an American illustrator. He works primarily in pen and ink on water color paper and is best known for his work as a portrait artist, for clients such as American Express, Barnes & Noble.com, Capitol Records, The Folio Society, The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Rolling Stone, Smithsonian and Time. He has received awards from the Society of Illustrators.
Wilson McLean is a Scottish illustrator and artist. He has illustrated primarily in the field of advertising but has also provided cover art for music albums, sports magazines, a children's book, and other commercial endeavors.
Rafał Olbinski is a Polish illustrator, painter, and educator, living in the United States. He is considered one of the major representatives of the Polish School of Posters.
Carson Friedman Ellis is a Canadian-born American children's book illustrator and artist. She received a Caldecott Honor for her children's book Du Iz Tak? (2016). Her work is inspired by folk art, art history, and mysticism.
William Gold was an American graphic designer best known for thousands of film poster designs. During his 70-year career, Gold worked with some of Hollywood's greatest filmmakers, including Laurence Olivier, Clint Eastwood, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Elia Kazan, and Ridley Scott. His first poster was for Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), and his final work was for J. Edgar (2011). Among Gold's most famous posters are those for Casablanca, The Exorcist and The Sting.
Jim Burke is an American illustrator, painter, and educator. Burke received his BFA from Syracuse University and his MFA from the University of Hartford. Burke has lectured at Syracuse University, The Norman Rockwell Museum, and the National Baseball Hall of Fame. He formerly instructed painting and illustration at Pratt Institute, and as a visiting artist at Syracuse University. He returned to New Hampshire in the Fall of 2009, when he was appointed Chairperson of the Illustration Department at the New Hampshire Institute of Art. In Fall 2016, Burke was appointed Assistant Vice President of Academic Affairs at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, in Minneapolis, MN.
Guy Billout is a French artist and illustrator. In 1989, Billout received the Hamilton King Award and in 2016, he was inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame.
The Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles (SILA) was founded in 1953 by a group of Southern California artists and designers "...to promote the professional status of illustration art as well as foster both philanthropic and educational goals".
Shelagh Armstrong is a Canadian illustrator, and was the recipient of the 1985 Will Davies award for excellence in illustration.
Sterling Clinton Hundley is an American illustrator and painter. He is also the Founder of Legendeer, a community focused on embedding artists back into the world. He is a professor in the Department of Communication Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is also one of five core art instructors at the Illustration Academy, held every summer in Kansas City, Missouri.
John Cuneo is an American illustrator whose work has appeared in publications, including The New Yorker, Esquire, Sports Illustrated and The Atlantic Monthly. His ink and watercolor drawings have been described as covering everything from politics to sex.
Gregory Manchess is an American illustrator from Kentucky. His illustrations have appeared in magazines, digital murals, illustrated movie posters, advertising campaigns and book covers including sixty covers for Louis L’Amour. His work has appeared on Major League Baseball World Series Programs, Time, Newsweek, The Atlantic Monthly, Playboy, The Smithsonian and National Geographic. His style includes broad brush strokes and excellent figure work.
Rafael López is an internationally recognized illustrator and artist. To reflect the lives of all young people, his illustrations bring diverse characters to children's books. As a children's book illustrator, he has received three Pura Belpré Award medals from the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), and REFORMA in 2020 for Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreño Played the Piano for President Lincoln,Drum Dream Girl in 2016 and Book Fiesta! in 2010. He created the National Book Festival Poster for the Library of Congress and was a featured book festival speaker at this event.
Edel Rodriguez is a Cuban American artist, illustrator, and children's book author. Using a variety of materials, his work ranges from conceptual to portraiture and landscape. Socialist propaganda and western advertising, island culture, and contemporary city life, are all aspects of his life that inform his work.
Marc Burckhardt is an American fine artist and illustrator. Burckhardt's work focuses on historical symbolism with contemporary themes. He uses a mix of both oil and acrylic paints in a modern variation of the Old Masters techniques of monochromatic underpainting and color glazing, often using wood panels. Burckhardt is additionally known for combining some paintings with pressed metal facades, historically known as rizas or oklads, forming elaborate patterns in the metal to create a jacket-like patterned covering
Brian Stauffer is a North American artist, and illustrator. Stauffer begins works with hand drawn sketches, then incorporates painted elements and scanned found objects. The final works are digital, but often the hand drawn elements remain as part of the finished works.
Michael J. Deas is an American realist painter and illustrator whose work is known for both its technical skill and "a growing sense of grace and serenity". He is cited in Roger and Walt Reed's definitive history of illustration, The Illustrator in America. He works primarily in oils and graphite. Deas began creating illustrations while studying fine art in New York during the 1970s. He has since gone on to paint six covers for Time magazine and 25 stamps for the US Postal Service, including likenesses of Tennessee Williams (1995), Marilyn Monroe (1995), F. Scott Fitzgerald (1996), Meriwether Lewis (2004), George H. W. Bush (2019) and Ruth Bader Ginsburg (2023). Other notable works include the US poster for Werner Herzog's film, Aguirre, the Wrath of God, and the cover art for the 20th-anniversary edition of Anne Rice's book, Interview with the Vampire. His most recognizable work is his luminous redesign of the Columbia Pictures logo, painted [with oils] in 1991 and in continuous use since that time.
Gérard DuBois is a French illustrator. In 2017, he received the Hamilton King Award. DuBois works in a variety of styles, which have been described as a consistent and remarkable blend of beauty, passion, and intelligence.
