Jaleen Grove on Avant Garde Illustration 1900-1950
Jaleen Grove is a Canadian artist and art historian whose area of focus is the history of illustration in the US and Canada. She\xa0 teaches at the Rhode\xa0Island School of Design,\xa0has written monographs on illustrators Oscar Cah\xe9n and Walter Haskell Hinton\xa0and has served as associate editor for the\xa0Journal of Illustration.
She is\xa0associate editor of the 592-page\xa0History of Illustration (Bloomsbury, 2018), and author of a chapter in it entitled 'Avant Garde Illustration 1900-1950'\xa0which is the topic of our conversation here, one that incorporates modernism, livres d'artiste, Cubism, Bauhaus; the importance of collecting, preserving and studying ephemera, and more.\xa0