Dorothy Kunhardt: Collected Works
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Dorothy Kunhardt: Collected Works
W037184 | $85.00 / 10% library disc.
Edited by Peter W. Kunhardt. Steidl, Gottingen, 2022. Published in associated with the Meserve-Kunhardt Foundation, Pleasantville.
304 pp. Well Illustrated (chiefly col.). 30 x 25 cm. In English. Hardcover.
ISBN 9783969990148
Best known for Pat the Bunny, published in 1940, Dorothy Kunhardt was a tireless innovator, publishing more than 40 books in three decades. Today, Pat the Bunny is still in print and has sold nearly ten million copies.Drawn entirely from the Kunhardt family collection, this publication brings Dorothy Kunhardt’s work to life generations later through photographs, letters, poetry, drawings, book mock-ups, unpublished manuscripts and full reproductions of first edition books. Also reproduced is a selection of research materials and papers pertaining to Kunhardt’s second consequential career, as an Abraham Lincoln scholar and steward of the Meserve Collection of Lincoln photographs and artifacts begun by her father.Born in New York City, Dorothy Kunhardt (1901–79) dictated her first story to her father at the age of three, and went on to become an inventive author, illustrator and creator of children’s books. She took her first stab at writing and illustrating with an outlandish devil-may-care picture book titled Junket Is Nice
Subject Headings: Western Art -- United States -- 1900-1945 -- Drawings and Watercolors ; Manuscripts and Book Design -- Illustration and Printing ; Women Artists --
Artist(s): Kunhardt, Dorothy
W037184 | $85.00 / 10% library disc.
Edited by Peter W. Kunhardt. Steidl, Gottingen, 2022. Published in associated with the Meserve-Kunhardt Foundation, Pleasantville.
304 pp. Well Illustrated (chiefly col.). 30 x 25 cm. In English. Hardcover.
ISBN 9783969990148
Best known for Pat the Bunny, published in 1940, Dorothy Kunhardt was a tireless innovator, publishing more than 40 books in three decades. Today, Pat the Bunny is still in print and has sold nearly ten million copies.Drawn entirely from the Kunhardt family collection, this publication brings Dorothy Kunhardt’s work to life generations later through photographs, letters, poetry, drawings, book mock-ups, unpublished manuscripts and full reproductions of first edition books. Also reproduced is a selection of research materials and papers pertaining to Kunhardt’s second consequential career, as an Abraham Lincoln scholar and steward of the Meserve Collection of Lincoln photographs and artifacts begun by her father.Born in New York City, Dorothy Kunhardt (1901–79) dictated her first story to her father at the age of three, and went on to become an inventive author, illustrator and creator of children’s books. She took her first stab at writing and illustrating with an outlandish devil-may-care picture book titled Junket Is Nice
Subject Headings: Western Art -- United States -- 1900-1945 -- Drawings and Watercolors ; Manuscripts and Book Design -- Illustration and Printing ; Women Artists --
Artist(s): Kunhardt, Dorothy
