Art by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
Ida Rentoul Outhwaite was born in Melborne in 1888.Though she had no formal training in art her family soon recognized her natural imaginative talent and encouraged her at home. In 1903, when only 15 Ida had published several fairy drawings in The New Idea and had designed and illustrated a number of Christmas cards. Her first book illustrations were for Mollies Bunyip which was published when she was the grand old age of 16. These were quickly followed by illustrations for many books, most written by her sister Anne and her husband Grenbry Outhwaite.

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Recently the fairy pictures and books of Ida Rentoul Outhwaite have reached a new peak of popularity. Her exquisite watercolors and decorative pen-and-ink drawings places her in the "Golden Age" of English book illustration. Numerous reproductions of her art, a biographical sketch, a discussion of her influence, and a look at other illustrators in the same period are all topics covered in

 

The Fairy World of Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

Marcie Muir, Robert Holden

The work and life of an influential artist in book illustration