Cecile Mary Barker ( born Cicely Mary Barker ; June 28, 1895 , Croydon , Surrey - February 16, 1973 ) is an English illustrator who painted children among flowers, mainly in the form of fairy fairies and elves .
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Biography
Cecile Mary Barker was born in England , the city of Croydon , in the family of woodcarver Walter Barker and Mary Eleanor Oswald. As a child, Cecile suffered from epilepsy , from which she later completely recovered. The girl began to show creative inclinations early. Due to her daughter’s pain, her parents decided that she’d better get an education at home. Cecil's father paid for extramural art courses, and also identified his daughter in an evening class at the Croyden School of Art , in which Cecil herself began to teach.
When the girl was 15 years old, her father showed several works of his daughter to the publisher Rafael Tuck. The works were bought and printed in a series of postcards. Mr. Barker was very proud of his daughter and, until his death in 1912, helped the young artist in every possible way to sell illustrations and poems (written by her) to various publishing houses.
Cecile Mary Barker is famous for her Flower Fairy books. The first book of Barker ("Spring Flower Fairies" was published only in 1923, in the wake of the wildly blooming fashion for fairies . With the light hand of Queen Mary (a lover of doll houses), who sent exhausted World War I friends with postcards with cheerful and innocent fairies, Barker books (as many as 8 pieces) and postcards with her drawings became incredibly popular. It must be said that all the fairies were drawn by Barker from nature, from the pupils of the kindergarten, which her sister was in charge of. Yes, and the flowers and trees are reproduced with truly botanical accuracy newt.
Since 1920, Cecile Maria Barker has written many religious works, including illustrated biblical stories, together with her sister Dorothy.
The artist died at the age of 77, on February 16, 1973 .
Children's picture books
- Flower Fairies of the Spring, London, Blackie, 1923, Frederick Warne, 1990 .
- Spring Songs with Music, London, Blackie, 1923 .
- Flower Fairies of the Summer, London, Blackie, 1925, Frederick Warne, 1985 .
- Westcott, MK., Child Thoughts in Picture and Verse, London, Blackie, 1925 .
- Flower Fairies of the Autumn, London, Blackie, 1926, Frederick Warne, 1990 .
- Summer Songs with Music, London, Blackie, 1926 .
- The Book of the Flower Fairies, London, Blackie, 1927 .
- Autumn Songs with Music, London, Blackie, 1927 .
- Old Rhymes for All Times. London, Blackie, 1928 '.
- The Children's Book of Hymns, London, Blackie, 1929 .
- Barker, Dorothy, Our Darling's First Book, London, Blackie, 1929 .
- Beautiful Bible Pictures, 1932 .
- The Little Picture Hymn Book, London, Blackie, 1933 .
- Rhymes New and Old, London, Blackie, 1933 .
- A Flower Fairy Alphabet, London, Blackie, 1934 .
- A Little Book of Old Rhymes, London, Blackie, 1936 .
- Barker, Dorothy, He Leadeth Me, London, Blackie, 1936 .
- A Little Book of Rhymes New and Old, London, Blackie, 1937 .
- The Lord of the Rushie River, London, Blackie, 1938, Frederick Warne, 1990 .
- Flower Fairies of the Trees, London, Blackie, 1940, Frederick Warne, 1990 .
- When Spring Came In at the Window, London, Blackie, 1942 .
- Stevenson, Robert Louis, A Child's Garden of Verses, London, Blackie, 1944 .
- Flower Fairies of the Garden, London, Blackie, 1944, Frederick Warne, 1990 .
- Groundsel and Necklaces, London, Blackie, 1946, published as Fairy Necklaces, Frederick Warne, 1991 .
- Flower Fairies of the Wayside, London, Blackie, 1948, Frederick Warne, 1990 .
- Flower Fairies of the Flowers and Trees, London, Blackie, 1950 .
- Lively Stories, Macmillan, 1954 .
- The Flower Fairy Picture Book, London, Blackie, 1955 .
- Lively Numbers, Macmillan, 1957 .
- Lively, Words, Macmillan, 1961 .
- The Sand, the Sea and the Sun, Gibson, 1970 .
- Flower Fairies of the Winter, London, Blackie, 1985, Frederick Warne, 1990 .
- Simon the Swan, London, Blackie, 1988; Frederick Warne, 1990 .
- Flower Fairies of the Seasons, Bedrick / Blackie, 1988 .
- A Little Book of Prayers and Hymns, London, Frederick Warne, 1994 .
- A Flower Fairies Treasury, London, Frederick Warne, 1997 .
Notes
- ↑ BNF ID : 2011 Open Data Platform .
- ↑ 1 2 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 118652532 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ 1 2 Cicely Mary Barker - 2006. - ISBN 978-0-19-977378-7 , 978-0-19-989991-3
- ↑ SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ 1 2 http://web.archive.org/web/20160401150146/http://jeugdliteratuur.org/auteurs/mary-cicely-barker