Eloise wilkin biography

  • Eloise Margaret Wilkin was an American illustrator.
  • Eloise Margaret Burns was born on March 30, in Rochester, New York.
  • Eloise Margaret Wilkin, was an American illustrator.

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    The Eloise Wilkin collection contains materials relating entirely to the book illustrated by Wilkin, The Visit. Materials include chronologically arranged correspondence, a typed revised draft of the manuscript, photographs, a layout of the book, a press release, original artwork, and a bound copy of the book.

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    Subject Terms

    • Children's literature, American--Illustrations
    • Illustrated children's books--United States--Specimens
    • Women authors, Americanth century
    • Women illustrators--United States

    Personal Names

    • Esley, Joan
    • Wilkin, Eloise Burns

    Form or Genre Terms

    • Book illustrations
    • Manuscripts for publication
    • Photographs

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    During her 50 year career spanning the decades of the s through the s, Eloise Wilkin illustrated over books for children.  Her illustrations evoke an idyllic rural world not unlike that which she knew while raising her family of four children in upstate New York.  Famous for her instantly recognizable style: sweet, cherubic, chubby-faced children; detailed early American and Victorian style architecture and furnishings; and the verdant, daisy-strewn hills of upstate New York, Eloise illustrated children&#;s early reading books; paper dolls; puzzles; entries in the Childcraft series; 20 books authored bygd her sister, Esther; as well as her 47 popular &#;Little Golden Books&#; titles.  Her most beloved titles include We Help Daddy, We Help Mommy, Baby Dear, So Big!, Prayers for Children, Busy Timmy, and My Little Golden Book About God.


    In addition to free lance drawing and book illustration, in the early s Eloise successfully designed and marketed,

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    Eloise Wilkin

    American illustrator (–)

    Eloise M. Wilkin

    Born

    Eloise M. Burns


    ()March 30,

    Rochester, New York, US

    DiedOctober 4, () (aged&#;83)

    Brighton, New York, US

    Resting placeHoly Sepulchre Cemetery, Rochester, New York, US
    EducationRochester Athenaeum and Mechanics Institute
    Known&#;forillustrator of Little Golden Books
    SpouseSidney Wilkin

    Eloise Margaret Wilkin (born Eloise Margaret Burns; March 30, – October 4, ), was an American illustrator. She was best known as an illustrator of Little Golden Books. Many of the picture books she illustrated have become classics of American children's literature. Jane Werner Watson, who edited and wrote hundreds of Golden Books, called Eloise Wilkin "the soul of Little Golden Books",[1] and Wilkin's books remain highly collectible. Her watercolor and colored pencil illustrations are known for their glowing depiction of babies, toddlers, and their parents in idyllic rural and dom

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