Edward Mortelmans
Artist, Visual Artist
Who is Edward Mortelmans?
Edward Mortelmans is a 20th-century English artist and illustrator. His primary modes of expression are watercolor and black and white line drawings. He is best known for illustrating some books by Gerald Durrell and some covers for books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Mortelmans was a watercolor artist, who commercially practiced cover artistry and book illustration, mostly for a visual audience of children and young adults. He illustrated the cover for a number of E. R. Burroughs paperback editions for Four Square Books including The Son of Tarzan, The Beasts of Tarzan and Lost on Venus. He did some magazine work, including cover design for the first American pulp magazine, Argosy. He has also been associated with illustrating several series, like the Twenty Names series of Hodder and Stoughton, How and Why Wonder Books of Corgi Books and the Oxford Graded Readers series of Oxford University Press. He has produced commissioned art for the British Railways. Edward Mortelmans' illustrations have been critically acclaimed.
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