From Tolkien To Oz - The Art Of Greg Hildebrandt
(1985 - The Unicorn Publishing House)

(by William McGuire) This is a striking 96-page volume, the first to focus on the Greg half of The Brothers Hildebrandt. Also striking here is the seeming near-desperate need for separation from his twin. In the narrative, Tim Hildebrandt is mentioned by name only in the first sentence, registering that the two of them were born. Then, in detailing the adventures that the two experienced in their formative years & early adulthood, they are written up as if indeed only Greg was present. Once 'The Brothers Hildebrandt' had been termed, "the Hildebrandts" made their accomplishments, before Greg then went solo in a real sense. The paintings & drawings here are those where he followed his own artistic muse and then later racked up a number of illustrations for classic literature & fairy tales, as well as more fantasy projects. Sporting all pages backgrounded in black, most of them are holding multiple images - 40 pages of them actually, with another 36 that feature a single reproduction (some of them not as large as you would want). Very welcome is that no double-page-spreads are attempted, but rather the number of long works are presented as each being held to a single page. Their books STAR WARS, THE FANTASY ART TECHNIQUES OF TIM HILDEBRANDT and GREG AND TIM HILDEBRANDT-THE TOLKIEN YEARS score as better collections than this one, but only three repeats from them are found here. There is a healthy contingent of text, some of those pages having additional small images to share (note that the white text here is not hard to read at all). Everything is captioned with the work's title and its creation-year.

The Fantasy Art Techniques Of Tim Hildebrandt

Hildebrandt / Tolkien Years

The Brothers Hildebrandt - A Book About The Artists [BELOW THE LINE]

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