Book illustrators are artists who have the magic of bringing stories to life. While writers and storytellers make the story exist, illustrators bring fantasy to paper. Frank Adams was a gifted book illustrator who gave the heroes of the story a face. With the beginning of the 20th century, the book market in the British Isles flourished. Always accompanied by some envy, the writers who wrote such enchanting stories as Alice in Wonderland and the Jungle Books were admired across the English Channel. While in the rest of Europe, modern nuances were recognizable in the illustrations, the British book illustrators oriented themselves towards aesthetics.
Frank Adam's illustrations captivate with their unique colouring and his razor-sharp presentation. In the beginning Frank Adams brought his figures to life with black ink only. A frog brought the artist success and made him famous. A new era had entered the book market. Animals were taken from their natural environment and developed into characters with human traits. Frank Adams succeeded in making personalities from the stories grow through his art. The London society was a grateful readership, which was eagerly awaiting every book publication and admired the works. If there was a specially beautiful book, the enthusiasm for it spread like wildfire.
As an illustrator Frank Adams was one of the most industrious of his time. He followed the taste of the times and illustrated fairy tales and characters of literature. Especially the fairy tale interpretations are still symbolic for the work of Frank Adams. Accompanied by a pinch of humour, they take away the childish horror from fairy tales. It is almost likeable when the casual wolf meets Little Red Riding Hood. Dressed in a red vest and a shoulder bag, he is far from his natural role model. Thanks to the illustrator's talent, the wolf has become a literary figure that all fairy tale lovers love to look at. The witch from Hansel and Gretel has a similar fate. Frank Adams loved the medium of colour lithography and created numerous illustrations with magnificently coloured printing blocks. However, he would not have been a British artist if he had not been attracted to watercolours. Romantic and somewhat spherical are the interpretations that Adams created with watercolours. Frank Adams gives the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen a harmonious softness that makes the fairy tale texts suitable for children. As an illustrator, Adams is thus addressing the growing interest in the market for children's literature. As an artist, Frank Adams has left behind a wonderful work that stands independently of the text and tells a story to the viewer only through the power of the image.
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.jpg "See-Saw Marjorie-Daw, illustration from The Beautiful Book of Nursery Rhymes, Stories and Pictures by Frank Adams, published by Blackie & Son by Frank Adams")
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.jpg "Old Mother Hubbard, illustration from The Beautiful Book of Nursery Rhymes, Stories and Pictures by Frank Adams, published by Blackie & Son by Frank Adams")
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.jpg "The duck took them over one at a time on her back by Frank Adams")
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.jpg "Hansel, Gretel and the witch by Frank Adams")
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.jpg "Morgiana Kills the Hidden Thieves by Pouring Boiling Oil on Them, Scene from Ali Baba from My Nursery Story Book, pub. by Blackie & Son by Frank Adams")
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.jpg "The Dame Made a Curtsey, the Dog Made a Bow, the Dame Said Your Servant, the Dog Said Bow-Wow by Frank Adams")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1064868).jpg "Illustration for The Story of Tom The Piper")
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.jpg "Illustration for The Three Little Pigs by Frank Adams")
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.jpg "With One Another They Did Fight, 1930s by Frank Adams")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1062251).jpg "Little Red Riding Hood by Frank Adams")
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.jpg "On opening the chests, they found them full of wonderful gems, jewels and diamonds by Frank Adams")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1324110).jpg "Dog with a Toy Clown by Frank Adams")
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.jpg "The Home of the Merman, from The Forsaken Merman by Matthew Arnold by Frank Adams")
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.jpg "Hansel stopped and every time he dropped a white pebble by Frank Adams")
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.jpg "She Went to the Cobbler")
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.jpg "The Parable of the Pharisee and the Publican, c.1910 by Frank Adams")
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.jpg "Naaman and Elisha by Frank Adams")
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.jpg "The children were lost by Frank Adams")
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.jpg "Babes in the Wood from My Nursery Story Book, pub. by Blackie & Son by Frank Adams")
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.jpg "Saul Gains His Kingdom by Frank Adams")
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.jpg "The children could not sleep by Frank Adams")
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.jpg "The old woman shut Hansel in a stable by Frank Adams")
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.jpg "Hansel filled his pocket with stones by Frank Adams")
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.jpg "She went to the barbers-to buy him a wig, when she came back he was dancing a jig, 1930s by Frank Adams")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1066557).jpg "Three Jolly Huntsmen by Frank Adams")
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.jpg "When She Came Back-He Was Smoking a Pipe by Frank Adams")
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.jpg "Jacob obtaining the blessing, from The Bible Picture Book published by Thomas Nelson by Frank Adams")
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.jpg "She went to the hatters to buy him a hat, when she came back he was feeding the cat by Frank Adams")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1317562).jpg "Illustration for The Scholar-Gipsy by Matthew Arnold by Frank Adams")
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.jpg "And when they saw the darksome night, they sat them down and cried by Frank Adams")
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.jpg "The Pilgrim and the Queen, from The Staff and Scrip by Dante G Rossetti by Frank Adams")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1056762).jpg "Jesus Before Caiaphas by Frank Adams")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1317521).jpg "Girl and boy racing on scooters by Frank Adams")
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.jpg "Simple Simon Met a Pie Man from My Nursery Story Book, pub. by Blackie & Son by Frank Adams")
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.jpg "No burial this pretty pair of any man receives, but Robin Redbreast lovingly did cover them with leaves, 1930s by Frank Adams")
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.jpg "The Taking of Jericho by Frank Adams")
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.jpg "The Dog Stood on Its Head by Frank Adams")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1064360).jpg "Illustration for Babes in the Wood by Frank Adams")
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.jpg "There Was a Crooked Man from My Nursery Story Book, pub. by Blackie & Son by Frank Adams")
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.jpg "The children home he takes, 1930s by Frank Adams")
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.jpg "Comus in the Woods, from Comus by John Milton by Frank Adams")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1577186).jpg "Three Jolly Fishermen by Frank Adams")
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.jpg "In the midst of the forest stood a wonderful white house by Frank Adams")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1500963).jpg "Illustration for Gray’s Elegy by Frank Adams")
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.jpg "Chanticleer and Dan Russell, from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer by Frank Adams")
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.jpg "He Bargained with Two Ruffians Bold, That They Should Take the Children Twain, 1930s by Frank Adams")
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.jpg "She led them in and gave them a beautiful supper by Frank Adams")
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.jpg "She went to the bakers to buy some bread by Frank Adams")
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.jpg "Scouts Viewing the Promised Land by Frank Adams")
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