Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-06-24

~ in their best bonnets and fur
trimmed coats on city streets. Each
separate picture has individual charm
For her art. childhood became a treer,
happier experience.
Born the same year as Kate Green
away and a great friend of hers, SYM
pathizing with her work, Randolph
Caldeeott also illustrated childrens pic
ture books with rare distinction. His
humorous rendering of nursery tales
with their English backgrounds. have
been the inspiration and delight of later
illustrators. His Farmers Boy, The
Jovial Huntsman" and THE House
That Jack Built" are full Of country
scenes and activities, simple in concep-
ception. soft in coloring and very suit
able for the smallest child.
Another significant English artist OF
this period is Walter Crane, whose pic
ture books are perhaps more compre-
hensible TO the older child. Poet, lee
turer. designer Of stained glass. tapes
tries and wall paper, Crane was asso-
ciated with Dante Gabriel Rossetti and
William Morris in the pre-Raphaelite
movement OF his time. Influenced by
Albrecht Durer. the German etcher, his
pictures are more decorative and fun
Of detail than the before mentioned ar
his faithful representations of costumes
and settings Of the period he illustrates.
There is delightful detail work in such
picture books as Aladdin and the Won
derful Lamp" Cinderella" and 'Goody
Two Shoes" Hawtiaorne's wonder
Book" and Miss Moiesworth's Cuckoo
Clock" and the Tapestry Room" are
other examples OF the interesting work
Of this artist.
Maurice Boutet de Monvel, the noted
| French portrait painter, has done for
| French children what Kate Greenaway
! did for English children He has most
| beautifully and touchingly interpreted
1 the spirit of childhood in those simple
/ tales OF Anatoie France, Our Children
and Girls and Boys"
| De Monvels most beautiful illustra-
| tons are those for Joan Of Arc. The
/ first pictures show Joan as a simple
! peasant girl. guarding her fathers
sheep. Later the scene changes TO the
| gorgeous pageantry of the mock court
Of the French dauphin. Valuable for
giving us the costumes and atmosphere
Of the times, 1t Is the artists interpre-
tation Of Joans indomitahle spirit, his
mastery rendering Of the crafty
gcheming courtiers, which make his
pictures Of the story memorable. Boutet
/ de MonVei painted six of these scenes
j representing Joans life for the late
Senator william A. Clark and they can
nov be seen in the Clark wing Of the
Corcorsn Gallery Of Art.
A BOUT the time when Maude Adams
"A as Peter Pan was asking the chill
dren Of England and America II they
believed In fairies. with the hope oil
saving the life OF th~ beloved Tinker
Bell the chapter in j. NJ Barrie'i
Little white Bird" called Peter Par
was published separately and illustrated
by Arthur Rackham. No child owning
the beautiful book and seeing Peter
Pan could fail 10 believe In fairies
Rackham shows us the delightful pos.
sibilities in the limbs OF old trees ant
tall grasses and the quite natural gift
OF fairies 10 turn themselves into flow
eTs when surprised by humans. with
his ephemerai elves in delicately tinted
colers balancing lightly on the petals
Of flowers or perched on deW-drenchec
spider webs with his wrinkled gnomei
peeping around the great trunks o.
forest trees with his pictures Of thu
whole life OF little people among th'
gnaried roots, he eaptiyates the mag
inafion.
Edmund Dulae, illustrator and por
trait painter, also interprets the w0rl.
If faerie. Hts work is well suited Il
The more Sophisticated tales. such al
the Arabian Nights" and Andersen
Fairy Tales" His color lis Away
beautiful o rich brown and ivory
offset by peacock blue and sill shade
from dusky TO brilliant and blended
with orange and pale rose. with her,
and there touch Of emerald green.
Kay Nielsen, formerly from Den
mark. has drawn pictures OF ofigina
conception I'm "Hansel and Gretel ant
Other Stories" by the Brothers Grimm
His pictures have imaginative and exotic
beauty. both IN color and design, ~
shows" according TO an artist IN AR
for Children. IN European Books %
Betty and Allan Eaton fIntefnatioaa
Studio, v, s5),s"a surprising tngsnuti: