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Heidi
Anne Heiner
ezOP
(10/24/00 10:16:37 pm)
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More illustrations are up
If anyone is interested, I have
put up several more illustrations on my site during the last few
weeks. Many of them--such as Jessie Willcox Smith and some Warwick
Goble--were sitting on my computer from before the move across country.
You can access them by tale or illustrator on an independent page
(which also serves as a backdoor to my regular site) at SurLaLune
Fairy Tale Illustrations. More will be going up in the coming
weeks, too.
Heidi
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Terri
Registered User
(10/24/00 11:39:11 pm)
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Re: More illustrations are up
These are wonderful pictures, Heidi -- thank you for making them available on the web, and doing it so beautifully.
Does everyone here know about the gorgeous new book "The Red Rose Girls," about Jessie Wilcox Smith and her band of women artists in Pennsylvania in the early 20th century? Howard Pyle (the illustrator) gave that nickname to a group of four young women who lived together in The Red Rose Inn, an old, wildly romantic Philadelphia estate. Three of the young women became famous artists of their day -- Jessie, Elizabeth Shippen Green and Violet Oakley; the fourth woman, Henrietta Cozens, was a kind of wife for the whole group, cooking, gardening, modelling, and providing moral support for the others. They made a pact to live together and to devote their lives to Art. Some years later, the household eventually fell apart when Elizabeth left to marry a man (gasp!), but prior to that they created a truly unique household for the time period (when woman had few legal rights) and a helluva lot of great art. Including fairy tale art -- so this post isn't entirely off-topic. <g>
The Red Rose Girls, by Alice A. Carter, is a beautiful art book with a fascinating text about this group, recently published by Abrams.
Edited by: Terri at: 10/24/00
11:42:18 pm
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Heidi
Anne Heiner
ezOP
(10/27/00 12:30:36 am)
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Re: More illustrations are up
I finally ordered a copy of Rose Red Girls since the library system doesn't have it readily available here. I have a feeling it is one I will want to own anyway. I was raised by an art history major and reading about women artists is always a small passion of mine. I am still ashamed that I have only been to the Getty a few times and not the other museums here in my new part of the country.
I still haven't learned a thing more about Adrienne Segur either!
Heidi
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Terri
Registered User
(10/27/00 1:38:34 am)
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The sainted Segur
I asked some publishing people in Paris about Segur when I was there in July, and they'd never heard of her, alas. I also asked Pierre Dubois, one of the leading writers on folklore in France -- and he'd at least heard of her and even had one of her books (her Snow Queen), but knew nothing about her. I'd love to find out more about this woman...and, in particular, where the originals of her art are right now. I was given a beautiful print of an advertisement she designed for Van Cleef & Arpels, dated 1950, of a princely cat putting a beautiful jewelled necklace on a princess. Ellen Kushner & Delia Sherman found it in one of those print stalls along the Seine. I'm looking at it as I type this, because it's now framed and hanging over my desk.
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tlchang
Registered User
(1/6/01 10:17:41 pm)
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Re: More illustrations are up
Hello - I am visiting/registering your board for the first time - thanks to a link and a nudge from Kerrie. Quickie into: I am an illustrator - I've done lots of things but the majority of it has been in the children's genre (Terri - Adrienne Segur has been a hero of mine as well since early childhood and NO ONE in the WORLD seems to know much of anything about her! I had a long conversation with Bud Plant who specializes in obscure illustrators who knew of her but could find no leads anywhere either....). Fairy tales were my earliest inspiration - from both a story and a visual viewpoint.
I'm working on a series of Celtic-Nature-Spirits for myself at the moment and eventually want to work on Celtic fairy tales in picture story book form (the kind that are not necessarily meant only for children. Trina Schart Hyman does some nice ones of these).
Anyway, of course I was drawn to the 'illustrations' post - which I cannot seem to access. Are they still at the address you posted a couple of months ago? I love the early American women illustrators (thankyou for the book recommendation (Red Rose Girls), Terri. Will have to get it. I love those 3 as well as Rose O'Neill from that era. I lived near Brandywine vally, DE for a number of years and soaked up all the Howard Pyle, N.C. Wyeth and the others of his school all I could!)
I don't think I match alot the literary criticism abilities on this list, but I read alot of fairy tales (Many of the authors on the Endicott-studio site are some of my current favs) and am glad there are people out there discussing them! Looking forward to reading more.
Tara
| Heidi
Unregistered User
(1/10/01 9:31:13 am)
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Hmmm...
I am investigating the problem with the illustrations site. It didn't link properly from my post above, but it did from my homepage. I will try to figure out what is wrong.
I will be adding even more illustrations in the next few weeks. They are more obscure and by little known or anonymous illustrators, but still interesting.
Over Christmas, my father found a penny edition of Hansel and Grethel that belonged to my grandfather in 1911 (copyright 1907). I never met my grandfather since he died when my father was a teen, so it was quite wonderful to know I shared a story with him. That is yet another charm of fairy tales. I didn't get to keep the book or I would share the illustrations with everyone, too.
Heidi
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