Juliet Kepes V

 

The Seven Remarkable Bears written by Emilie Warren McLeod and illustrated by Juliet Kepes published in 1963.

Juliet Kepes IV

"The Seed That Peacock Planted" by Juliet Kepes published 1961.

Juliet Kepes III

 

'Frogs Merry' by Juliet Kepes, published 1960. Juliet Kepes (1919 -1999) was a British illustrator, painter and sculptor who trained at Brighton School of Art in 1930's before moving to America in 1937. 

I'm thrilled to own my own copy now in Japanese, it is such a beautiful book.

Juliet Kepes II

This week I am focusing my posts on the innovative artist, writer and illustrator, Juliet Appleby Kepes (1919-1999) She is best known for the 17 children’s books she wrote and illustrated, which won her a Caldecott Honor citation (for “Five Little Monkeys” in 1952) and other awards from the Museum of ModernArt, the American Institute of Graphic Artists, and the Society of Illustrators. The New York Times four times cited her books among the ten best children’s books of the year. Her book “Birds” (1968) was published under the auspices of the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts of Harvard College Library, and introduced by its curator, Philip Hofer.

The British-born wife of Gyorgy Kepes, the influential artist and theorist. Juliet Kepes was trained at the Chicago Institute of Design (known then and now as the New Bauhaus), and worked as an artist in a number of fields relating to children, designing environmental spaces, murals, sculpture and textiles, among other things, sometimes in collaboration with her husband. Her work is featured in the Museum of Modern Art’s show, “Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900-2000” (July-November 2012), in which the famous playroom environment she and Gyorgy Kepes designed for their daughter in 1949 was recreated at the Museum for this exhibition. Juliet Kepes’s gouache drawing for the playroom mural was reproduced as a poster for the MOMAexhibition.

Juliet Kepes also collaborated with her husband on several architectural mural projects at Massachusetts schools and libraries, including schemes for the Morse School in Cambridge, the Fitchburg Children’s Library, and the Wellesley Free Library (all commissioned by the architect Carl Koch); and the Taunton School (The Architects’ Collaborative). As well she designed a series of bronze bird bas-reliefs for a Cambridge playground, commissioned by the municipal arts council (1980). Juliet Kepes was a Radcliffe Institute Scholar in 1970 and 1971.

Books Written and Illustrated by Juliet Kepes:

Five Little Monkeys. Boston (Houghton Mifflin), 1952.

Beasts from a Brush. New York (Pantheon), 1955.

Two Little Birds and Three. Boston (Houghton, Mifflin), 1960.

Frogs Merry. New York (Pantheon), 1961.

Lady Bird, Quickly. Boston (Atlantic, Little Brown), 1964.

Five Little Monkey Business. Boston (Houghton Mifflin), 1965.

The Seed That Peacock Planted. Boston (Atlantic, Little Brown), 1967.

Birds. New York (Walker & Co., in association with the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts,

Harvard College Library), 1968.

Run, Little Monkeys! Run, Run, Run! New York (Pantheon), 1974

Cock-a-Doodle-Doo. New York (Pantheon), 1978.

The Story of a Bragging Duck. Boston (Houghton, Mifflin), 1983.

Books Illustrated by Juliet Kepes

McLeod, Emilie Warren. The Seven Remarkable Bears. Boston (Houghton, Mifflin), 1954.

Smith, William Jay. Laughing Time. Boston (Atlantic, Little Brown), 1955.

Read, Herbert (ed.). This Way, Delight. A book of poetry for the young. New York (Pantheon), 1956.

Miller, Mary Britton. Give a Guess. Poems. New York (Pantheon), 1957.

Smith, William Jay. Blue Boy’s Book of Beasts. Boston (Atlantic, Little Brown), 1957.

Smith, William Jay. Puptents and Pebbles. A nonsense ABC. Boston (Atlantic, Little Brown), 1959.

Grand Scribbly Game Day 6

 

Day six of the scribble challenge organised by Monty Lee with the support of her wonderful co-hosts.

Above: Monty Lee Below: Carol Law 

Above: Zeke Nguyen, Below: Ksenia Topaz

The Grand Scribbly Game day 4

 

Above: Janneke Kelderman Below: Marina Savitckaia, For the Grand Scribbly Game; day 4.

Below: Anne Toppen

The Grand Scribbly Game day 2

 

Above: Janneke Kelderman Below: Marina Savitckaia 

Day 2 of the Grand Scribbly game gave us octopi and cowboys.

Above: Hanna-Sophie Janisch

Scribble

Monty Lee has a new challenge this week and I am just going to be a by stander this time, as life has been overwhelming this month and I am heart sore and tired. 

However I can't resist sharing some of the magic. Above is Polina's response to day one's wiggly scribble; a Caterpillar Express! Below: Louise Tate has continued the insect transportation with a motorcycling scorpion fly.

While below we have Monty's own butterfly.

Alan Howard I

I have bought this very tired but beautiful version of Peter and the Wolf, written by Sergi Prokofiev, and illustrated by Alan Howard (1922-2008 ). The illustrations have a wonderful style and are like splashes of wonder in the text.