Title: |
Group of Children |
Artist: |
Evatt, Harriet Torrey (Knoxville, Tennessee, 1895
- Franklyn County, Ohio, 1983) |
Date: |
c. 1950 - 1960 |
Medium: |
Original Pen and Ink and Graphite Drawing |
Note: |
Harriet Torrey Evatt 'Harriet Evatt' began her career as a painter
of portraits, still lifes and landscapes. She studied art at the Columbus
School of Fine Arts and was a long time resident of Southern Ohio. |
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Beginning around 1940, however, Harriet Torrey Evatt began the most famous
part of her artistic endeavors as both a major author and illustrator
of children's books. Over the next twenty-five years she wrote and illustrated
such fiction as, Suzette's Family (1941), The Mystery of
the Creaking Windmill (1945), The Mystery of the Old Merchant's
House (1947), The Mystery of the Alpine Castle (1951), The
Secret of the Singing Tower (1953), The Papoose Who Wouldn't
Keep her Stockings On (1954), Secret of the Old Coach Inn
(1959), You Can't Keep a Squirrel on the Ground (1961), An
Army in Pigtails (1962), The Mystery of the Lonesome Manor
(1962), and The Secret of the Solitary Cove (1964). |
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Judging from the appearance of the two girls to the left
in this original drawing, it might possibly be a preparatory study for
An Army in Pigtails (1962). Harriet Evatt has also written color schemes
and directions on the drawing and has provided a detail of the patchwork
(to the right) which she wants on the baby's blanket. |
Size: |
4 3/4 X 6 1/2 (Sizes in inches are approximate,
height preceding width of plate-mark or image.) |
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Framed and Matted with 100% Archival Materials |
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Price: $565.00 US |
Condition: |
Drawn upon thick wove paper and with full margins. Containing
pinprick holes in the two upper corners for registration and book reproduction
and the above mentioned notations in graphite. Signed 'H. Evatt' within
the image to the lower right. In fine condition throughout. Group
of Children represents a charming, original example of the famous
children's illustration art of Harriet Evatt. |
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