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Elizabeth Coatsworth
Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (May 31, 1893 – August 31, 1986) was an American writer of fiction and poetry for children and adults. She won the 1931 Newbery Medal from the American Library Association award recognizing '' The Cat Who Went to Heaven'' as the previous year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children." In 1968 she was a highly commended runner-up for the biennial international Hans Christian Andersen Award for children's writers. Life Elizabeth Coatsworth was born May 31, 1893, to Ida Reid and William T. Coatsworth, a prosperous grain merchant in Buffalo, New York. She attended Buffalo Seminary, a private girls' school, and spent summers with her family on the Canadian shore of Lake Erie. She began traveling as a child, visiting the Alps and Egypt at age five.Cech, John (editor), ''Dictionary of Literary Biographies: American Writers for Children, 1900–1960'', Gale Research, 1983, volume 22 Coatsworth graduated from Vassar College ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Poet Laureate
A poet laureate (plural: poets laureate) is a poet officially appointed by a government or conferring institution, typically expected to compose poems for special events and occasions. Albertino Mussato of Padua and Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) of Arezzo were the first to be crowned poets laureate after the classical age, respectively in 1315 and 1342. In Britain, the term dates from the appointment of Bernard André by Henry VII of England. The royal office of Poet Laureate in England dates from the appointment of John Dryden in 1668. In modern times a poet laureate title may be conferred by an organization such as the Poetry Foundation, which designates a Young People's Poet Laureate, unconnected with the National Youth Poet Laureate and the United States Poet Laureate. The office is also popular with regional and community groups. Examples include the Pikes Peak Poet Laureate, which is designated by a "Presenting Partners" group from within the community, the Minnesota poet l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davy Crockett
David Crockett (August 17, 1786 – March 6, 1836) was an American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier, and politician. He is often referred to in popular culture as the "King of the Wild Frontier". He represented Tennessee in the U.S. House of Representatives and served in the Texas Revolution. Crockett grew up in East Tennessee, where he gained a reputation for hunting and storytelling. He was made a colonel in the militia of Lawrence County, Tennessee and was elected to the Tennessee state legislature in 1821. In 1827, he was elected to the U.S. Congress where he vehemently opposed many of the policies of President Andrew Jackson, especially the Indian Removal Act. Crockett's opposition to Jackson's policies led to his defeat in the 1831 elections. He was re-elected in 1833, then narrowly lost in 1835, prompting his angry departure to Texas (then the Mexican state of Tejas) shortly thereafter. In early 1836, he took part in the Texas Revolution and died at the Battle of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky
Feodor Stepanovich "Rojan" Rojankovsky (russian: Фёдор Степанович Рожанковский) (December 24, 1891 – October 12, 1970), also known as Rojan, was a Russian émigré illustrator. He is well known both for children's book illustration and for erotic art. He won the 1956 Caldecott Medal for U.S. picture book illustration from the American Library Association, recognizing '' Frog Went A-Courtin''' by John Langstaff. Biography Rojankovsky was born in Mitava, Courland Governorate of the Russian Empire (now in Latvia) on December 24, 1891, to Lydia Kiprianova and Stepan Fedorovich Rojankovsky. After Stephan's death in 1897, the family moved to St. Petersburg to be closer to his older married sister. There, Rojan's interest in books grew, particularly natural history picture books and illustrated classics. He studied two years at the private Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture but left in 1914 to serve in the Imperial Russian Army during W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George And Doris Hauman
George Hauman (1890–1961) and Doris Holt Hauman (August 29, 1898 – 1984) were American illustrators of children's books. They illustrated a popular 1954 edition of ''The Little Engine That Could''.Cullinan, Bernice E., and Diane Goetz Person. ''The Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature''. Continuum International Publishing Group. August 1, 2003P. 634/ref> Lives Doris Holt was born in West Somerville, Massachusetts, on August 29, 1898. Doris went to the Normal Art School located in Boston, Massachusetts. Doris and George married in 1924, when he lived in a studio apartment directly below hers. They had one son. George died in 1961 and Doris died in 1984. "Material was donated by Doris Hauman from 1966 to 1974." Doris and George Hauman lived in Scituate, MA, on Third Cliff overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. Careers The two decided that because they had so many of the same customers, they were going to start working together on projects, using "Doris and George Hauman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foujita
was a Japanese–French painter and printmaker born in Tokyo, Japan, who applied Japanese ink techniques to Western style paintings. At the height of his fame in Paris, during the 1920s, he was known for his portraits of nudes using an opalescent white ink with fine black outlines and his pictures of cats. He returned to Japan in 1933, and served as a war artist for the Empire of Japan#World War II (1941–1945), Imperial Japan during World War II. After the war, Foujita returned to France, where he became a French citizen and converted to Christianity. He was buried in Foujita Chapel, The Chapel of our Lady of Peace, which he had helped build and is painted with his frescoes. Since his death, Foujita's work has become increasingly appreciated in Japan. Early life in Japan Foujita was born in 1886 in , a former ward of Tokyo that is now part of the . He was the son of , an Army Medical Director. Immediately after graduating secondary school, Foujita wished to study in France. B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fermin Rocker
Fermin Rocker (22 December 1907 – 18 October 2004) was a British painter and book illustrator. He was the son of the anarcho-syndicalist theorist and activist Rudolf Rocker, a German, who had moved to London 1895, and Milly Witkop, a Ukrainian Jew and anarchist and feminist activist, who had fled to London in 1894. Rocker was born in Stepney, East London in 1907 and named after the Spanish anarchist and mayor of Cádiz Fermín Salvochea. During his youth, he got to know many prominent anarchists such as Errico Malatesta and Peter Kropotkin and often attended anarchist meetings with his father, a prominent activist, whom he fondly recalls in his 1998 memoir. Later he would also meet Augustin Souchy, Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman, Erich Mühsam, Nestor Makhno, and Buenaventura Durruti. During this period he learned to draw, guided by his half-brother Rudolph, and exhibited a natural aptitude.Whitehead, AndrewFermin Rocker: Painter from a family of London anarchists ''The Guardia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustaf Tenggren
Gustaf Adolf Tenggren (November 3, 1896 – April 9, 1970) was a Swedish-American illustrator. He is known for his Arthur Rackham-influenced fairy-tale style and use of silhouetted figures with caricatured faces. Tenggren was a chief illustrator for The Walt Disney Company in the late 1930s, in what has been called the Golden Age of American animation, when animated feature films such as ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'', '' Fantasia'', ''Bambi'' and ''Pinocchio'' were produced. Early career Gustaf Tenggren was born in 1896 in Magra parish (now part of Alingsås Municipality), in Västra Götaland County, Sweden. In 1913 he received a scholarship to study painting at Valand, the art school in Gothenburg, Sweden. Tenggren's early schooling and artistic influences were solidly grounded in Scandinavian techniques, motifs and myths; he worked with illustrating in the popular Swedish folklore and fairy tales annual '' Bland Tomtar och Troll'' (" Among Gnomes and Trolls"), wher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Clarence Pitz
Henry Clarence Pitz (June 16, 1895 – November 26, 1976) was an Americans, American artist, illustrator, editor, author, and teacher who wrote and/or illustrated over 160 books, and dozens of magazine covers and articles. His most well-known book is ''The Brandywine Tradition'' (1968). Life and career Pitz was born in Philadelphia in 1895. His father was a bookbinder who immigrated from Germany. Pitz graduated from West Philadelphia High School and was awarded a scholarship to the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art. There Pitz studied illustration and became particularly fond of the work of Howard Pyle. One of Pitz's instructors at the Museum School was Thornton Oakley, who had been a student of Pyle. He enlisted in the United States Army Medical Corps in 1917 and became an x-ray technician. He was assigned to Base Camp 56, Allerey, France, assisting Colonel Coates, the unit surgeon. After the war, he returned to Philadelphia. There he began a career of teaching a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grace Paull
Grace A. Paull (1898–1990) was an American artist, illustrator, and author. She designed greeting cards, illustrated children's books, and painted people, landscapes and flowers. Life and career Paull was born in 1898 in Cold Brook, New York. She went to high school in Montreal, Canada and then Utica Free Academy where she studied under Mabel E. Northrup. She continued her art studies at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn for three years and after graduating from there at Art Students League and Grand Central Art School in New York City. After art school, Paull designed greeting cards for several years. In 1932, Paull started her career of being a children's book illustrator. She was also the author of some of the books she illustrated. Paull made her home in Cold Brook, where she lived in the historic Cold Brook Feed Mill. Paull died in 1990. Collections Her work is included in the collections of the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute and the National Gallery of Art. Illus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Lawson (author)
Robert Lawson (October 4, 1892 – May 27, 1957) was an American writer and illustrator of children's books. He won the Caldecott Medal for his illustrations in '' They Were Strong and Good'' in 1941 and the Newbery award for his short story for ''Rabbit Hill'' in 1945. Background Born in New York City, Lawson spent his early life in Montclair, New Jersey. Following high school, he studied art for three years under illustrator Howard Giles (an advocate of dynamic symmetry as conceived by Jay Hambidge) at the New York School of Fine and Applied Art (now Parsons School of Design), marrying fellow artist and illustrator Marie Abrams in 1922. His career as an illustrator began in 1914, when his illustration for a poem about the invasion of Belgium was published in ''Harper's Weekly''. He went on to publish in other magazines, including the ''Ladies Home Journal'', ''Everybody's Magazine'', ''Century Magazine'', ''Vogue'', and ''Designer''. Camouflage service During World War I, La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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