May Gibbs: More Than a Fairy Tale: An Artistic Life by Robert Holden and Jane Brummitt
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May Gibbs: More Than a Fairy Tale: An Artistic Life by Robert Holden and Jane Brummitt

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SKU TBM9781742701509
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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9781742701509
Author: Robert Holden
Additional Authors: Jane Brummitt
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Hardie Grant Books
Place: Melbourne VIC
Year: 2011
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 248 pages
Period: 19th and 20th Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges.

May Gibbs (1877-1969) became one of Australia's most well-known and loved illustrators. Her gumnut babies have been adored by generations of children.

Her early life and artistic career are explored in detail for the first time. She travelled to England in a quest to develop as an artist and became an early supporter of the suffragettes. Her early paintings of wildflowers led her to discover the limitations of being a woman artist, and she discovered that working hard to develop a sustaining commercial career in art was not going to be easy.

One of the few women to become a commercial success, she did so by turning to fantasy and children's illustration. This is a fascinating illustrated biography of a talented artist, complete with beautiful reproductions of May Gibbs' work throughout. (publisher blurb)

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