Aubrey Beardsley

Known for: black-and-white illustration for Salome and The Yellow Book

Aubrey Beardsley produced most of his mature work between 1892 and his death at 25 from tuberculosis, developing a black-and-white illustration style of extreme line economy and erotic sophistication associated with the Aesthetic Movement and the Yellow Nineties. His illustrations for Oscar Wilde's Salome (1894) and his work for The Yellow Book and The Savoy were scandalous and widely reproduced. He converted to Catholicism near the end of his life and asked his executrix to destroy his more explicit drawings.