While I love Edward Gorey’s personal taste, and I agree these are all fantastic illustrators, I don’t think any of them are as great as Edward Gorey himself. He also admired Edward Ardizzone: You can see that Gorey was influence by Ardizzone.Īnd then there was Pesanello: beautiful, but still prefer Gorey to PisanelloĪnd Balthus, and he specified the drawings for Wuthering Heights, which Gorey says, “As illustrations for Withering Heights, forget it. Gorey’s number one idle was Edward Bawdin: I’m just going to post pictures of their work, and let everyone contemplate how wonderful it is that Edward Gorey never actually had the opportunity to sell his soul and draw like them. “Īnd, over the next few pages, Gorey lists his idles (most of whom were also named Edward). I was reading an *interview with Edward Gorey today (from 1994) where he said, “By the way, I would cheerfully sell my soul to draw like some people. Posted Octoby Shoshanah Marohn under Uncategorized
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