A contemporary of illustrator Jessie Willcox Smith, Ethel Betts studied with Howard Pyle at the Drexel Institute in Philadelphia and became a very popular illustrator of children's books during "The... Read full biography
A contemporary of illustrator Jessie Willcox Smith, Ethel Betts studied with Howard Pyle at the Drexel Institute in Philadelphia and became a very popular illustrator of children's books during "The Golden Age of Illustration." . She was the sister of illustrator Anna Whelan Betts, and both girls... Read full biography
A contemporary of illustrator Jessie Willcox Smith, Ethel Betts studied with Howard Pyle at the Drexel Institute in Philadelphia and became a very popular illustrator of children's books during "The Golden Age of Illustration." . She was the sister of illustrator Anna Whelan Betts, and both girls moved to Wilmington, Delaware to have continued access to the teaching of Howard Pyle who had established a school there. Her work includes Fairy Tales from Grimm, and, The Complete Mother Goose, and... Read full biography
A contemporary of illustrator Jessie Willcox Smith, Ethel Betts studied with Howard Pyle at the Drexel Institute in Philadelphia and became a very popular illustrator of children's books during "The Golden Age of Illustration." . She was the sister of illustrator Anna Whelan Betts, and both girls moved to Wilmington, Delaware to have continued access to the teaching of Howard Pyle who had established a school there. Her work includes Fairy Tales from Grimm, and, The Complete Mother Goose, and The Six Swans, which won a bronze medal at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915. She also illustrated the 1919 edition of A Little Prince by Frances Hodgson Burnett (author of A Secret Garden), Charles Scribner's Sons. Sources: . Walt... Read full biography
A contemporary of illustrator Jessie Willcox Smith, Ethel Betts studied with Howard Pyle at the Drexel Institute in Philadelphia and became a very popular illustrator of children's books during "The Golden Age of Illustration." . She was the sister of illustrator Anna Whelan Betts, and both girls moved to Wilmington, Delaware to have continued access to the teaching of Howard Pyle who had established a school there. Her work includes Fairy Tales from Grimm, and, The Complete Mother Goose, and The Six Swans, which won a bronze medal at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915. She also illustrated the 1919 edition of A Little Prince by Frances Hodgson Burnett (author of A Secret Garden), Charles Scribner's Sons. Sources: . Walt Reed, The Illustrator in America, 1860-2000. Additional information courtesy of... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (12)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Maxfield Parrish and the American Imagists
2004
Cutler, Laurence S, Judy Goffman Cutler & The National Museum of American Illustrators
448 pages (color)
The Illustrator in America, 1860-2000 The Society of Illustrators
2001
Reed, Walt
452 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Covers of the Saturday Evening Post Seventy Years of Outstanding Illustration
1995
Cohn, Jan
298 pages (color)
The Golden Age Of Children's Book Illustration (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Dalby, Richard
143 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
Wake Up, America World War I and the American Poster
1988
Rawls, Walton
288 pages (color)
Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900
1985
Petteys, Chris with Hazel Gustow, Ferris Olin and Verna Ritchie
851 pages
The Illustrator in America, 1880-1980: A Century of Illustration
1984
Reed, Walt and Roger
355 pages (color)
Panama-Pacific Exposition: Catalogue of the Post-Exposition Exhibit