Kinuko Y. Craft

Kinuko Yamabe Craft, born in 1940, is a Japanese-born American painter and illustrator working in oils and watercolour over clayboard gesso panels, in a style drawing on Leonardo da Vinci, the Pre-Raphaelites and the Symbolists.

She has produced cover art for Time, Newsweek and National Geographic, and fantasy jacket paintings for writers including Patricia A. McKillip, Juliet Marillier and Tanith Lee. Her illustrated children's books include King Midas and the Golden Touch, Cinderella and Pegasus, made in collaboration with her husband Mahlon F. Craft and her daughter Marie Charlotte Craft.

She received the Hamilton King Award from the Society of Illustrators in 1987, entered its Hall of Fame in 2008, and won the World Fantasy Award for Best Artist in 2011.