Davis, Marguerite (1889–1980)
Davis, Marguerite (1889–1980)
American illustrator of children's books. Born Feb 10, 1889, in Quincy, Massachusetts; died Dec 1980, in Tucson, Arizona; attended Vassar College and Boston Museum of Fine Arts School.
Along with 1927 English translation of Johanna Spyri's Heidi, illustrated many books in 25-year career, including Christina Rossetti's Sing-Song (1924), Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses (1924), Louisa May Alcott's Under the Lilacs (1928), Laura E. Richards' Tirra Lirra (1932), and Elizabeth Coatsworth's The Littlest House (1940).
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