Antique American Childrens Illustration Elizabeth Tyler Wolcott Snow White Original SIgned

Antique American Childrens Illustration Elizabeth Tyler Wolcott Snow White Original Signed, Mixed Media, 26 x 21", 28 x 22 1/2" framed.
The illustrator, Elizabeth Tyler, was born in Newton, Massachusetts on October 27, 1892 to Henry W. Tyler, a math professor at MIT, and Alice Irving Brown, an early female graduate of MIT. She attended Mt. Holyoke College (she studied with George Grosz at the Art Students League) and then attended the Normal Art School of Boston. She was the wife of Wallace Wolcott, an architect who worked with McKim, Mead, and White. She illustrated six books: I Spend the Summer, The World to Know, Playing with Clay, The Singing Farmer, Two Children of Tyre, and Akka Dwarf of Syracuse. She created a mural for the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens. She won the Book Week Poster Contest for 1949. She died on November 27, 1951, survived by her husband, a son (Roger T. Wolcott of New York), a daughter (Penelope of Scarsdale), and three sisters.

28 x 22.5 x 1 in