Who is the illustrator of The Wizard of Oz book?

Answer 1

William Wallace Denslow [May 5, 1856-May 27, 1915]. He received some training from the National Academy of Desgn and the Cooper Institute in New York City. But he mainly became an illustrator and cartoonist through self-education, and self-training. During the 1880s, he roamed the United States as a traveling artist and newspaper reporter. He became ka a respected poster artist, and book and bookplate designer. He also became the first artist to be asked to work at the influential Roycroft Press, in the Buffalo area of New York state. In 1893, Denslow attended the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois and decided to stay. He became a member of the Chicago Press Club, which was where he may have met author and Oz series originator Lyman Frank Baum [May 15, 1856-May 5, 1919]. The author and the illustrator collaborated on Baum's By the Candelabra's Glare, Dot and Tot of Merryland, and Father Goose: His Book, before joining forces on The Wizard of Oz. But they decided to go their separate ways after disagreements over royalty shares from the 1902 stage version of The Wizard of Oz. Denslow illustrated his own Denslow's Mother Goose, Denslow's Night Before Christmas, and Denslow's Picture Books. And Baum had all the other books in the Oz series illustrated by John Rea Neill [November 12, 1877-September 13, 1943]. Royalties from the book and stage versions of The Wizard of Oz left Denslow comfortably well off. He bought an island that was off the coast of Bermuda; and where he spent the rest of his life, ka King Denslow I.