William Wallace Denslow (American, 1856-1915) artist, children's book illustrator, editorial cartoonist, designer, Roycroft artisan, author & self-publisher, set & costume designer, poster illustrator, and caricaturist. Denslow was best known for his beloved illustrations for author Lyman Frank Baum's famous children's book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, (1900) on which his fame mostly rests, and also for Clement Clark Moore's Denslow's Night Before Christmas, (1902), his own Denslow's Picture Book Series, an eighteen-volume set which he adapted and illustrated himself (1903-04), and numerous other publications and for his illustrative involvement with Elbert Hubbard's Roycroft community of Arts &...