{"id":18349,"date":"2017-06-08T01:15:55","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T00:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=18349"},"modified":"2017-06-08T01:15:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T00:15:55","slug":"the-work-of-walter-crane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2017\/06\/08\/the-work-of-walter-crane\/","title":{"rendered":"The Work of Walter Crane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"crane01.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/crane01.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Not the first time Walter Crane has been featured here but <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/gri_33125012663791\" target=\"_blank\">this slim volume<\/a> (62 pages) is a useful overview of the artist&#8217;s work which covers all aspects of his career: fine art, book illustration, political design (Crane was a lifelong Socialist), textiles for William Morris, and interior design. There&#8217;s more Walter Crane at <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Category:Walter_Crane\" target=\"_blank\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"crane02.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/crane02.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"crane03.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/crane03.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"crane04.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/crane04.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"crane05.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/crane05.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"crane06.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/crane06.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"crane07.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/crane07.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"crane08.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/crane08.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>A sketch for <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Batch_Mattes_20130310_NP_(16).JPG\" target=\"_blank\">Neptune&#8217;s Horses<\/a> (1892), a painting which later inspired Jonathan Glazer&#8217;s celebrated <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Surfer_(advertisement)\" target=\"_blank\">Surfer ad<\/a> for Guinness.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"crane09.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/crane09.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"crane10.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/crane10.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"crane11.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/crane11.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Walter Crane by GF Watts.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-illustrators-archive\/\">The illustrators archive<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/03\/05\/walter-cranes-picture-books\/\">Walter Crane\u2019s Picture Books<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2014\/08\/27\/william-morris-and-his-work\/\">William Morris and His Work<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/12\/21\/walter-cranes-household-stories\/\">Walter Crane\u2019s Household Stories<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not the first time Walter Crane has been featured here but this slim volume (62 pages) is a useful overview of the artist&#8217;s work which covers all aspects of his career: fine art, book illustration, political design (Crane was a lifelong Socialist), textiles for William Morris, and interior design. There&#8217;s more Walter Crane at Wikimedia &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2017\/06\/08\/the-work-of-walter-crane\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Work of Walter Crane&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,4,48,44,14],"tags":[549,1188],"class_list":["post-18349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-design","category-illustrators","category-painting","category-politics","tag-walter-crane","tag-william-morris"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4LX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}