Willie Pogány’s Wynken, Blynken, and Nod Postcard

This painting by Willie Pogány is a vintage illustration for the storybook, “A Treasury of Verse for Little Children”, 1912. William Andrew ("Willy") Pogány born Vilmos Andreas Pogány was a prolific Hungarian illustrator of children’s books and other books. He is best known for his pen and ink drawings of myths and fables. A large portion of Pogány’s work is described as Art Nouveau. Pogány'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.