William Wallace Denslow
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![The Black Sheep, from a 1901 edition of Mother Goose](/Images/godic/202501/08/The_Black_sheep_illustrated_by_William_Wallace_Denslow0258.jpg")
![Denslow's illustration for](/Images/godic/202501/08/There_Was_An_Old_Woman_Who_Lived_In_A_Shoe_-_WW_Denslow_-_Project_Gutenberg_etext_185460258.jpg")
![Dorothy meets the Cowardly Lion, from the first edition of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.](/Images/godic/202501/08/Cowardly_lion20258.jpg")
William Wallace "W. W." Denslow (May 5, 1856 – March 29, 1915) was an American illustrator and caricaturist remembered for his work in collaboration with author L. Frank Baum, especially his illustrations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Denslow was an editorial cartoonist with a strong interest in politics, which has fueled political interpretations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.