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Garth Williams
LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE.1952.
Pen and ink drawing as Alternate Cover Design for Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House on the Prairie (NY: Harper & Bros, 1953), signed with initials, also with Lettering mock-up for spine and cover matted together. Measures 6-1/8 x 5-3/4 inches on larger paper.
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Apparently the only ink drawing by the artist for the series, as he primarily worked in pencil to convey a nostalgia tone.
Catalogue Note
Garth Williams (1912–1996) was an American children’s book illustrator of classics such as Stuart Little (1945), Charlotte’s Web (1952) and Little House on the Prairie (1952) and its sequels and he wrote and illustrated the controversial “The Rabbits’ Wedding” (1958).
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