Figure 1.--This illustration was for Jeannette Marks' "The Children in the Wood Stories" (1919), set in the medieval period. They are among the most striking done by Budd.
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Figure 1.--This illustration was for Jeannette Marks' "The Children in the Wood Stories" (1919), set in the medieval period. They are among the most striking done by Budd. |
We have only a few examples of Burds ilustrations at this time. She apparently liked to fraw idealized historical settings, often in the Kate Geenaway era of the early 19th century. She believed in the vibrant use of color. Some of her book illistratins are especially striking. We note in particular the illustrations for Jeannette Marks' The Children in the Wood Stories (Springfield, Milton Bradley, 1919), set in the medieval period. Although not one of her better known set of illustations, they are quite beautiful. Perhaps her best known illustrations were for the Louisa Mae Alcott books Little Women (1926), Jo's Boys (1928), Little Men (1928), An Old Fashioned Girl (1928), and Eight Cousins (1931). There were also beautiful illustrations for an edition of Rovert Louis Stevenson's Child Garden of Verses. The illustration seen here is from that edition (figure 1). Another beautiful ser of illustrations was done for Elizabeth Lodor Merchant's Boys' Stories from Dickens (1929). We also note her illustrations for Mary Mapes Dodge, Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates (1925). Burd also did spme lovely illustrations for Johanna Spyri's Heidi (1924).
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