Pauline Baynes, whose illustrations gave life to Narnia, as well as appearing in books by J.R.R. Tolkien, Mary Norton, Richard Adams and countless others, passed away on Monday. Brian Sibley has a lovely remembrance.
BTW, it wasn’t until reading this piece that I learned that Baynes had created an actual Tolkien-approved design for THE LORD OF THE RINGS — one I had never seen.
I have that very edition of LotR at home somewhere… Her Narnia illustrations were utterly definitive.