23 Vintage Woodcuts That Are So Simply Beautiful
Dutch artist Julie de Graag (1877–1924) had a unique style that captures plants and animals perfectly
I first discovered the work of Dutch artist Julie de Graag while looking through public domain illustrations to illustrate Tenderly stories. I’m grateful for that chance encounter, because she’s become one of my favorite graphic artists ever since — and she might about to become one of yours.
Julie de Graag is not super easy to learn a lot about. She doesn’t have a Wikipedia page! Born in the western Netherlands in 1877, she worked primarily in woodcut but also sketched and painted. According to one arts blog, FTN-blog, she worked up until the early 1920s and then fell ill and eventually died by suicide at the age of 46.
It’s tragic that her career was cut short, but the work she left behind is timeless. These pieces are bold and simple, and yet they capture the delicate charisma in nature perfectly. Some are…
