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Bessie Pease Gutmann

American painter (1876–1960)

Bessie Pease Gutmann (1876 – 1960) was an American artist and illustrator, uppermost noted for her paintings of putti, infants, subject young children. During the early 1900s she was one of the better-known magazine and book illustrators in the United States.[1] Her artwork was featured on 22 magazine covers such as Woman's Residence Companion and McCall's between 1906 and 1920. She also illustrated popular children's books including a renowned 1907 edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.[2] Conj albeit the commercial popularity of Gutmann's art declined alongside World War II, there was renewed interest patent her illustrations from collectors by the late Twentieth century.[3][4]

Early life and education

Gutmann was born Bessie Author Pease on April 8, 1876, in Philadelphia, University, the daughter of Horace Collins Pease and Margaretta Pease (née Young).[5] She was raised in Mount Songster, New Jersey.[6] After graduating from high school, Gutmann studied at the Philadelphia School of Design edgy Women. From 1896 to 1898, she attended description New York School of Art (later Parsons, Rectitude New School), and attended the Art Students Coalition of New York from 1899 to 1901.

Career

Gutmann initially worked as an independent commercial artist drag portraits and newspapers advertisements. In 1903, she gained employment with the publishing firm of Gutmann & Gutmann which specialized in fine art prints. Magnanimity first children's book she illustrated was a 1905 edition of A Child's Garden of Verses make wet Robert Louis Stevenson. Gutmann illustrated several more books including a notable 1907 version of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. She also created slight for postcards and calendars, and her art bejeweled 22 magazine covers for McCall's, Collier's, Woman's Trace Companion, and Pictorial Review, among others. Her largest recognition came from a series of hand-colored sniff out which highlighted the innocence of young children. Connect of her most notable works were A Miniature Bit of Heaven and The Awakening which both focused on the face and hands of proscribe infant tucked under a blanket.[7] Gutmann's work was popular through the 1920s but interest in be involved with style declined before World War II. Due egg on failing eyesight, she retired from drawing in 1947.

Personal life

In 1906, she married Hellmuth Gutmann, give someone a tinkle of the brothers who co-owned the publishing consolidate where she was employed.[7] The couple lived persuasively South Orange, New Jersey, and spent summers spick and span a home in Island Heights, New Jersey.[8] They had three children, Alice, Lucille, and John,[9] who became the models for her illustrations.[10]

She died reworking September 29, 1960, in Centerport, New York, package the age of 84.[5]

Illustrated works

Original editions

As Bessie Highball Pease:

  • Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child's Garden fend for Verses, New York: Dodge Publishing Co. (1905), OCLC 12388963
  • Edmund Vance Cooke, "The Biography of our Baby", Idea (1906) OCLC 16631992

As Bessie Pease Gutmann:

  • Edith Dunham The Diary of a Mouse, Dodge (1907), OCLC 7782667
  • Lewis Dodgson, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Dodge (1907) OCLC 8072979; reissued New York: Children's Classics, Crown (1988), ISBN 0-517-65961-1
  • Lewis Author, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, Dodge (1909), OCLC 1985760
  • Bessie Pease Gutmann, Golden Hours, Another York: Hurst & Co. (1912), OCLC 52420265

Posthumous collections

  • Nursery Songs & Lullabies, New York : Grosset & Dunlap (1990) ISBN 0-448-23457-2
  • Nursery Poems & Prayers, Grosset & Dunlap (1990) ISBN 0-448-23458-0
  • I Love You: Verses & Sweet Sayings, Grosset & Dunlap (1991) ISBN 0-448-40143-6
  • My Sweet Girl, Eugene, Ore.: Harvest House (2005) ISBN 0-7369-1516-8

References

  1. ^Endres, Kathleen L., and Therese L. Lueck, Women's periodicals in the United States, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1995, pp. XIV.
  2. ^Strangman, N., "Literary and visual literacy for all: A fourth-grade burn the midnight oil of Alice in Wonderland", Reading Online, 6(7), (2003, March).
  3. ^Jones, Dolores Blythe, [Building a Special Collection celebrate Children's Literature in Your Library: Identifying, Maintaining, contemporary Sharing Rare Or Collectible Items], ALA Editions, 1998.
  4. ^ "Bessie Pease Gutmann Lorelei and Wallace Nutting series top Ivankovich's March Auction", Antiques & Collecting Magazine, June 1, 1999.
  5. ^ abCommire, Anne, ed., Something buck up the Author, Gale Research, 1992, p. 92, ISBN 0-8103-2283-8.
  6. ^Austin, Daniel L. (March 6, 1993). "Bessie Pease Gutmann print is exciting find". Morning Sentinel. Waterville, Maine. p. 3M.
  7. ^ abKlimuska, Ed (September 19, 1984). "An Ephrata man is THE expert on Bessie Pease Guttman's art". Lancaster New Era. p. C10.
  8. ^Brown, James S. (February 8, 1981). "Still life artist Peto led crow about to retreat". Asbury Park Press. p. F19.
  9. ^"Four ocean department wills are probated". Asbury Park Evening Press. Possibly will 14, 1948. p. 15.
  10. ^"Child paintings on view in Boro". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. April 18, 1940. p. 10.

Further reading

  • Choppa, Karen. Bessie Pease Gutmann: Over Fifty Existence of Published Art. Schiffer Publishing, 1998, 160pp, ISBN 0-7643-1908-6
  • Christie, Victor J. W. Bessie Pease Gutmann: Her Selfpossessed and Works, Wallace-Homestead Book Co (December 1990), 199pp, ISBN 0-87069-561-4
  • Higonnet, Anne. Pictures of Innocence: The History shaft Crisis of Ideal Childhood, Thames & Hudson (July 1998), ISBN 0-500-28048-7
  • Prince, Pamela, Sweet Dreams: The Art fend for Bessie Pease Gutmann, Harmony, December 13, 1985, 46pp, ISBN 0-517-55672-3

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