Dorothy Pulis Lathrop - Artist Info

About Dorothy Pulis Lathrop

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    Born in Albany, New York, Dorothy Lathrop was an illustrator, printmaker, and woodblock carver, whose specialty was animal subjects. She spent hours with animals that she illustrated, learning to love their distinct characteristics.

    She wrote and illustrated many children's books including The Fairy Circus, The Little White Goat, The Snail Who Ran, and Who Goes There? In 1938, she won a Caldecott Medal for Animals of the Bible. She also did some impressionist landscapes.

    Dorothy Lathrop was the daughter of artist Ida Lathrop and a sister of sculptor Gertrude Lathrop. She studied at the Art Student's League in New York, with Arthur Dow at Columbia University, a...

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