William Andrew Pogany, born in Szeged, Austria-Hungary, was a prolific Hungarian illustrator of children's and other books. His contemporaries include Edmund Dulac and Harry Rountree. He is best known for his pen and ink drawings of myths and fables.
A large portion of Pogany's work is described as Art Nouveau. Pogany's artistic style is heavily fairy-tale orientated and often feature motifs of mythical animals such as nymphs and pixies. He paid great attention to botanical details. He used dreamy and warm pastel scenes with watercolors, oil paintings, and especially pen and ink.
Pogany was awarded several medals in Budapest, Leipzig and Panama Expos and he became a Fellow of the London Royal Society of Art. In 1918 he illustrated a children's retelling of Homer, The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy written by Padraic Colum.
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