{"Id":2773,"Name":"Sidney H. Sime","Biography":"The partnership of illustrator \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.bpib.com/illustrat/sime.htm\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003ESidney H. Sime\u003C/a\u003E and fantasy writer \u003Ca href=\u0022http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunsany\u0022 target=\u0022_self\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003ELord Dunsany\u003C/a\u003E (also poet, dramatist, and grand chess master and pistol champion of Ireland) is without peer in the annals of fantasy illustration. It is almost inconceivable to imagine a Dunsany story - with its exquisite fusion of elements from Greek and Celtic myths (Dunsany was friendly with Yeats and the writers of the Celtic Twilight), Arabian Nights adventure, and the solemn harmonies of the Old Testament - without the drawings of Sidney H. Sime. Sime has been called the \u0022greatest imaginative artist since William Blake,\u0022 and aside from their \u003Cem\u003Efin-de-siecle\u003C/em\u003E elegance, and delicacy of line recalling Persian miniatures, Sime\u0027s drawings manifest that rare faculty of being able to give definitive, and often uncanny, form to the poet\u0027s merest suggestions. Sime\u0027s work has some of that visionary symbolism of his contemporary, \u003Ca href=\u0022/asp/database/art.asp?aid=632\u0022 target=\u0022_self\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EGeorge Frederick Watts\u003C/a\u003E.\u003Cp\u003E","Awards":null,"HasAlbums":false,"HasPortraits":true,"HasRelationships":false,"HasArticles":false,"HasDepictedPlaces":true,"HasLetters":false,"HasLibraryItems":false,"HasProducts":false,"HasSignatures":false,"HasVideos":false,"HasMapLocations":true,"TotalArtworks":83}