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Take a Gander at Virginia Frances Sterrett’s Fairy Tale Illustrations

by Susana Polo | 9:37 am, November 18th

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If Virginia Frances Sterrett‘s life was like a fairy tale, it was one of those sad ones where the heroine turned to seafoam or died in the cold, or was otherwise written by Hans Christian Andersen, and you wondered why anybody wanted to read it at all, except the grownups seemed to find it inspiring or something. Sterrett was born in 1900, and as a mere teenager she was given a full scholarship to the Art Institute of Chicago based on her work alone. At the age of 19, however, she was diagnosed with tuberculosis, and after a twelve year battle with the disease, died. Within that time, however, she complete the illustrations for three books, including an adaptation of The Arabian Nights. Here are six illustrations from her first commissioned work, Old French Fairy Tales.

You can see more of Sterrett’s art at Flavorwire.

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  • http://twitter.com/MichellePar Michelle Parsneau

    Gorgeous!  Thanks for sharing them!

  • Terence Ng

    I see a lot of influence from Yoshitaka Amano and Edmund Dulac. Very pretty.

  • Talia

    Very Amano-esque! These are gorgeous.

  • http://twitter.com/trialblog K B

    Edmund Dulac is a possibility, but Yoshitaka Amano was born after she died.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=813165390 Annika Raaen

    Oh wow…exquisite!!!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7G4SWUX2MCWWXLMYNN347JMIZY Frodo Baggins

    God damn I love Art Nouveau. 

  • Terence Ng

    Oops, sorry. It was my miss. I thought she was a contemporary artist. How embarassing. :#

    Perhaps Amano was influenced by her, then?