Valenti Angelo’s Salomé
And still they come… Valenti Angelo (1897–1982) was an American printmaker, author of several books for children and the illustrator of an estimated 250 classic works of fiction including this 1945 edition of Wilde’s Salomé for Heritage Press. Angelo has an engagingly simple style in this and other works, reminding me of David Sheridan’s Tarot designs. The Internet Archive has a copy of his illustrated The Imitation of Christ with drawings reminscent of Eric Gill’s woodcuts.
Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The Oscar Wilde archive
• The illustrators archive
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Dalí’s Salomé
• Wild Salomés
• The Salomé paintings of Caroline Smith
• Mossa’s Salomés
• The art of Marcus Behmer, 1879–1958
• Several Salomés
• Julius Klinger’s Salomé
• John Vassos’s Salomé
• René Bull’s Salomé
• Steven Berkoff’s Salomé
• Manuel Orazi’s Salomé
• Salome’s Last Dance
• Salomé posters
• Salomé scored
• Beardsley’s Salomé
• Peter Reed and Salomé After Dark
• Alla Nazimova’s Salomé
2 comments or trackbacks
#1 posted by Alfie
Jun 2nd, 2011
Those pages are beautiful. With the flat colours and uniform line width, it brings to mind modern vector illustration.
#2 posted by Barb
Mar 11th, 2012
I own a “The Song of Song which is Solomon’s” illustrated and illuminated by Valenti Angelo (Heritage Press, 1935). Just lovely especially because the initials are made with pure gold ink! HIs style is so special.
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