Bessie Pease Gutmann facts for kids
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Bessie Pease Gutmann
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Bessie Collins Pease
April 8, 1876 |
| Died | September 29, 1960 (aged 84) |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Philadelphia School of Design for Women Parsons School of Design |
| Known for | Illustration |
Bessie Pease Gutmann (1876 – 1960) was an American artist and illustrator. She was best known for her beautiful paintings of babies and young children.
In the early 1900s, Bessie was one of the most famous magazine and book illustrators in the United States. Her artwork appeared on 22 magazine covers, including Woman's Home Companion and McCall's. She also illustrated popular children's books. One of her most famous works was a 1907 edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Even though her art became less popular during World War II, people became interested in her illustrations again by the late 1900s.
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Early Life and Art Training
Bessie Collins Pease was born on April 8, 1876, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After finishing high school, she decided to study art.
She attended the Philadelphia School of Design for Women. From 1896 to 1898, she studied at the New York School of Art. She also went to the Art Students League of New York from 1899 to 1901.
Her Artistic Journey
Bessie Pease Gutmann started her career as an independent artist. She drew portraits and advertisements for newspapers. In 1903, she began working for a company called Gutmann & Gutmann. This company specialized in making fine art prints.
Her first children's book illustration was for A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1905. She illustrated many more books, including a famous 1907 version of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Bessie also created art for postcards and calendars. Her pictures were on 22 magazine covers, like McCall's and Woman's Home Companion. She became very well known for her hand-colored prints that showed the innocence of young children. Two of her most famous works were A Little Bit of Heaven and The Awakening. Both of these showed the sweet face and tiny hands of a baby tucked under a blanket.
Bessie's art was very popular through the 1920s. However, interest in her style started to decrease before World War II. She stopped drawing in 1947 because her eyesight began to fail.
Family Life
In 1906, Bessie married Hellmuth Gutmann. He was one of the brothers who owned the publishing company where she worked.
The couple moved to South Orange, New Jersey, in 1909. They had three children named Alice, Lucille, and John. These children often became the models for Bessie's beautiful illustrations.
Bessie Pease Gutmann passed away on September 29, 1960, in Centerport, New York. She was 84 years old.
Illustrated Books
Here are some of the books Bessie Pease Gutmann illustrated:
- Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child's Garden of Verses (1905)
- Edmund Vance Cooke, "The Biography of our Baby" (1906)
- Edith Dunham The Diary of a Mouse (1907)
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1907)
- Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1909)
- Bessie Pease Gutmann, Golden Hours (1912)
Images for kids
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Bessie Pease Gutmann in 1906
See also
In Spanish: Bessie Pease Gutmann para niños
