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1SilverKitty
Jul. 28, 2013, 8:14 pm

Hi -

I'm just wondering if there is a name for the softened, almost pastel-like illustrations of children's books (and greeting cards, and baby books) of the 50's and 60's. I was thinking about this today as I entered a children's poetry book into my library. I have at least one other book with this style of illustration (as well as my own baby book).

I love all the illustrations in my poetry book and will post a few if people are interested (and I can figure out how to do it).

My book definitely falls in the "tattered" category - besides being frayed a bit it has some pencil in it (we weren't always nice to it, I guess) and a ring mark on the cover. We must have used it as a coaster at some point.

2BonnieJune54
Jul. 28, 2013, 10:34 pm

I would like to see an illustration. I think I know the style you mean and I like it also. I love old illustrated books but I don't know the names of the styles

32wonderY
Bearbeitet: Jul. 29, 2013, 9:09 am

There is a series of books which celebrate advertising illustration for each of the decades of the 20th century -
Taschen All-American Ads

Here's the series page: http://www.librarything.com/series/Taschen+All-American+Ads

See whether your library has the right decade. They may discuss styles of illustration there, even book illustrations.

Also, Welleran Poltarnees, owner of Laughing Elephant printers, celebrates old childrens books illustrations in several books.
From Mother Goose to Dr. Seuss: Children's Book Covers, 1860-1960
and
Children from the Golden Age: 1880-1930,
though I don't recall him naming the styles. I can check (if I remember!!) when I go home.

Oh, just thought of another resource: A Treasury of the Great Children's Book Illustrators.

4SilverKitty
Bearbeitet: Jul. 29, 2013, 4:14 pm

I don't think my scanner does these pictures justice. . .

When I was young I wanted to go live in this tiny (tidy) house, with its tiny chairs and tiny thermos.



5SilverKitty
Bearbeitet: Jul. 29, 2013, 4:14 pm

The illustrator is Marjorie Cooper.

Who didn't go off with Wynken, Blyken and Nod every night?



6SilverKitty
Jul. 30, 2013, 9:50 am

>3 2wonderY: Thank you, 2wonderY. I've located those books through my various library resources and will take a look at them.

I've figured out how to upload covers and uploaded the cover for my sweet childhood poetry book. It looks. . . well loved. . . but I still like looking at it on my virtual shelf.

Also, was it okay to upload a couple of illustrations from this book? I am wondering if I am violating copyright/LT Terms of Use.

72wonderY
Jul. 30, 2013, 12:39 pm

Shhh. We won't tell. We do it all the time, sharing by photo. As long as you don't reproduce the whole thing and start selling them I think you'll be okay.
Have you been on Pinterest? People share what they like.

82wonderY
Bearbeitet: Sept. 15, 2016, 11:12 am

I was thinking that we'd also talked somewhere about another illustration style of this same time period, which features bold crisp shapes with lots of color.

I discovered Charley Harper today. He specialized in animal illustrations, and developed the style he eventually called “minimal realism.”

He began to experiment with a new style where perspective was replaced with hard-edged two-dimensional shapes reduced to only straight lines and curves and where shading and depth were replaced by overlapping color. To caricature and simplify at the same time. The idea was “...to push simplification as far as possible without losing identification.

It is very distinctive and has been copied by a lot of preeminent children's' illustrators



oops, let me try that again.

9SilverKitty
Nov. 7, 2016, 8:56 am

Interesting! That style also looks familiar. . . although I think I like the soft pastel-look better. . . the above reminds me of the late 60's - early 70's. I could be wrong about the era though - I was pretty young during those years.

10gmathis
Bearbeitet: Nov. 7, 2016, 11:53 am

Check out Eloise Wilkins...same sweet, soft genre and reminds me of some of my favorite childhood stories handpicked by my mom.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&amp...

11MDGentleReader
Dez. 12, 2016, 6:45 pm

There were lovely illustrations for some Rumer Godden children's books in the 1960s. Little Plum, Miss Flowers and Miss Happiness, Mouse House and The Kitchen Madonna are ones that I own. I'll have to look up the illustrators in my editions when I get home. My online searches turned up the correct editions, but not the illustrator and only the cover image. The Kitchen Madonna has some vivid images appropriate to the story, the others are a soft pastel.

12MDGentleReader
Dez. 12, 2016, 6:51 pm

Ah, I see that Adrienne Adams is one illustrator.

13SylviaC
Dez. 12, 2016, 7:01 pm

>11 MDGentleReader: Mine were illustrated by Jean Primrose.



The inside illustrations are beautiful, too. I might try scanning a couple later, when I'm not coping with a sick child.

14MDGentleReader
Dez. 12, 2016, 7:16 pm

May your child feel better soon.

My covers look different, yet similar. I've heard of Jean Primrose.

15SylviaC
Dez. 12, 2016, 10:34 pm

>14 MDGentleReader: Thanks. She's feeling pretty low now, but hopefully will start improving soon.