Frederick Richardson
, 1862 - 1937
The Frederick Richardson credited with illustrating this book appears to be the American teacher, newspaper illustrator and book illustrator (b. 1862, Chicago). Richardson studied at St. Louis School of Fine Arts and Académie Julian (Paris). He went on to teach at the Chicago Art Institute for seven years, illustrate the newspaperChicago Daily News and finally in 1903, move to New York and become an illustrator of books.
Richardson illustrated a large number of works of myth and folklore, including some of Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books, Francis Jenkins Olcott’s 1917 The Red Indian Fairy Book, versions of Mother Goose and Aesop’s Fables, Georgene Faulkner’s Little Peachling and Other Tales of Old Japan (1928) and The White Elephant and Other Tales from Old India (1929),and the work of Hans Christian Anderson. He produced pictures for the World’s Columbian Exposition for Chicago Daily News in 1893. He also illustrated John Heming Fry's anti-modernist The Revolt Against Beauty (1934)with artwork which parodied Van Gogh and Gauguin.
Richardson was a member of the Art Nouveau movement. He had two sons, Allan and David.
Sources:
wikipedia.org (accessed: June 9, 2020);
Lost Art Books: picturethispress.com (accessed: June 9, 2020);
Top Illustrations: topillustrations.wordpress.com (accessed: June 9, 2020);
Past and Present: pastandpresent.com(accessed: June 9, 2020).
Bio prepared by Robin Diver, University of Birmingham, RSD253@student.bham.ac.uk
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