Alice Bolam Preston
Alice Bolam Preston (1888–1958) was an American artist and children's book illustrator.
Biography
[edit]Preston lived in Beverly Farms, Massachusetts. She is best known for illustrating children's books in the 1910s and 1920s, primarily for Houghton Mifflin. She had a particular affinity for fairy illustrations. With crisp lines and rich colors, her work is stylistically akin to that of Jessie Willcox Smith or Charles Robinson.[1]
Preston also created illustrations and covers for magazines such as Vogue and House Beautiful.
In 2014–2015, the Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Massachusetts held a retrospective exhibition of her work.[1]
Books illustrated
[edit]- Sniffy, Snappy, and Velvet Pay by Ruth O. Dyer (1918)
- Stories from a Mouse Hole by Ruth O. Dyer (1919)
- Seven Peas in the Pod by Margery Bailey (1920)
- Adventures in Mother Goose Land by Edward Gower (1920)
- The Green Forest Fairy Book by Loretta Ellen Brady (1920)
- Peggy in Her Blue Frock by Eliza Orne White (1921)
- The Little Man with One Shoe by Margery Bailey (1921)
- Humpty Dumpty House by Ethel Calvert Phillips (1924)
- The Valley of Color Days by Helen B. Sandwell (1924)
- Tony by Eliza Orne White (1924)
- Whistle for Good Fortune by Margery Bailey (1940)
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Alice Bolam Preston". Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, 2014.
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