Alice Bolam Preston
Alice Bolam Preston (1888–1958) was an American artist and children's book illustrator. • Illustration — Frontispiece by Alice Bolam Preston for The Green Forest Fairy Book by Loretta Ellen Brady (1920).
Alice Bolam Preston
Alice Bolam Preston · The Green Forest Fairy Book by Loretta Ellen Brady (1920) · Public domain
- Born
- 1888 · Malden.
- Died
- 1958
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- illustrator
- Education
- Massachusetts College of Art and Design
- Teachers
- Felicie Waldo Howell
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Alice Bolam Preston (1888–1958) was an American artist and children's book illustrator. • Illustration — Frontispiece by Alice Bolam Preston for The Green Forest Fairy Book by Loretta Ellen Brady (1920).
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Alice Bolam Preston (1888–1958) was an illustrator, of American nationality. The illustrator was born in Malden.
Alice Bolam Preston was educated at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. The illustrator was a member of Boston Art Club and Pen + Brush. Works are held at Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art.
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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. 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.
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1888
Alice Bolam Preston was born in 1888 at Malden.
1958
Alice Bolam Preston died in 1958.
Books illustrated
• 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)
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Alice Bolam Preston studied at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She trained under Felicie Waldo Howell.
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