Friday, 30 April 2010

• Fine Art Friday:Cady

  

  Twenty Harrison Cady sketches illustrate this Frances Hodgson Burnett classic of faeries saving the day.

  Jane Ann Biggs, a flower seller, graces the cover of the 1992 Derrydale edition of The Spring Cleaning in which Queen Crosspatch details the efforts of The Green Workers, The Tuggers, and The Frost Imps, as the Primose Patch is coming to life in Spring.

  Main character, Bunch, determines to supply Jane Ann with an endless supply of primroses in a selfless act of charity only envisioned by a youngster.

  If you are charmed by the whimsical nature of the cover art, you will most certainly appreciate Cady's renditions of English village characters (faeries included).

  I am an apparent late-comer to the enchantment of primroses.

  Read John Donne's Primrose poem.

   

  But it's really Queen Crosspatch's preface to the book that captures how many of us feel, especially at the end of a work week ~

  It is just the hundreds and thousands of things I have to do for people like the Racketty-Packetty House dolls and Winnie and the Rooks and the Cozy Lion that makes it impossible for me to attend to my literary work.  Of course, nothing ever would get told if I didn't tell it, and how is a person to find time for stories when she works seventy-five hours a day.  You may say that there are not seventy-five hours in a day, but I know better.  I work seventy-five hours every day whether they are there or not.

   

   

   

   

  Now time for a library run....

  I'm checking out all their books illustrated by Harrison Cady

   

  Currently Copland: Appalachian Spring; Rodeo; Fanfare for the Common Man see related

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