William Meade Prince
Illustration — An advertisement illustrated by Prince in The Saturday Evening Post, 1920. William Meade Prince (July 9, 1893 – November 10, 1951) was an American magazine illustrator of the 1920s and 1930s. The William Meade Prince and Lillian Hughes Prince Papers form part of the Southern Historical Collection of the University of North Carolina.
William Meade Prince

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- Born
- 1893
- Died
- 1951
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- painter · illustrator
- Languages
- English
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Illustration — An advertisement illustrated by Prince in The Saturday Evening Post, 1920. William Meade Prince (July 9, 1893 – November 10, 1951) was an American magazine illustrator of the 1920s and 1930s. The William Meade Prince and Lillian Hughes Prince Papers form part of the Southern Historical Collection of the University of North Carolina.
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His artistic estate was donated to the permanent collection of the Ackland Art Museum in 1962.
• Miss Couch and the Scamps (1938) (illustrator) • The Southern Part of Heaven (1950) (author and illustrator)

Illustration by William Meade Prince for the short Western story, "The Way out" in Red Book Magazine, 1923 May.
William Meade Prince

Illustration by William Meade Prince for the short Western story, "The Way out" in Red Book Magazine, 1923 May.
William Meade Prince
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- 1.Prince, William Meade NCpedia. www.ncpedia.org.
- 2.William Meade Prince and Lillian Hughes Prince Papers (#3660) 1890s–1962. finding-aids.lib.unc.edu.
- 3.William Meade Prince. lambiek.net.
- 4.Search "william meade prince" (Objects) – Search – Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. ackland.emuseum.com.
- 5.Miss Couch and the Scamps by Meade, Julian R.; Prince, William Meade (Illustrator): Fair Hardcover (1938) First Edition First Printing Gargoyle Books, IOBA. www.abebooks.com.
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