Kitchen Stoves In Art and Illustration

Witches don’t make use of stoves, of course, even when they have access to one. They use a cauldron.

Philippe Fix (born 1 May 1937) is a French illustrator and author of children’s books. This is for The Book of Giant Stories by David L. Harrison.

Gordon Robinson’s Cinderella has access to a broomstick and cauldron, and looks like she’s about to stab you, the onlooker. In this version, Cinderella is really a witch. (I wish.)

Cinderella 1930s edition illustrated by Gordon Robinson

November, page 1 from A Time to Keep, The Tasha Tudor Book of Holidays, Macmillan, New York, 1977

Arkady Sher

Roger Duvoisin (1900-1980) for Houn’ Dog by Mary Calhoun, 1959

The Life of a Queen by Colette Portal

Ernest Higgins Rigg (1868-1947) Quiet Hour

James Stokeld – When the boat comes in 1862

Charles Sheeler (1883–1965) Kitchen, Williamsburg, 1937

Harry Bush Tiled Kitchen 1954

Adolf Heinrich Claus Hansen (Danish, 1859 – 1925). The shiny kettles really make this one. (Metallic surfaces in art and illustration.)

Leonard Tsuguharu Foujita (1886–1968) Mon Interieur. Look closely and you’ll see the stove. This interior reminds me very much of the work of Anton Pieck.