Today's artist is found on a wonderful website that details this artist, and many others from the 20th and 19th centuries @ArtPassions.net (source listed below)
The Artist: Virginia Frances Sterrett
"Virginia Frances Sterrett (1900-1931) was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1900. She was an introverted child who preferred the world of imagination and drawing to social interaction with other children at school." (1)
Virginia worked as an artist for a French advertising campaign in the early twentieth century and in the true tragedy of her era, died of Tuberculosis in the 1930s.
"The comments of the St Louis Post-Dispatch in the supplement published following Sterrett's death (published July 5, 1931) pay fitting tribute to her life and work:
“Her achievement was beauty, a delicate, fantastic beauty, created with brush and pencil. Almost unschooled in art, her life spent in prosaic places of the West and Middle West, she made pictures of haunting loveliness, suggesting Oriental lands she never saw and magical realms no one ever knew except in the dreams of childhood...Perhaps it was the hardships of her own life that gave the young artist's work its fanciful quality. In the imaginative scenes she set down on paper she must have escaped from the harsh actualities of existence." (2)
Explore the website Artpassions for more information on the artist, as well as scans of Virginia’s art. The individual(s) who run the site have painstakingly and lovingly taken the time to scan the images into a database for others to view. Explore the website to discover more art by Virginia, and others:)
Art Passions: Fairy Tales are the Myths we Live by, Art Passions, Art of Myth and Fairy Tale, artpassions.net/sterrett/virginia_sterrett.html. Accessed 18 Aug. 2022.
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