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Margery Stocking Hart
Tiger, Lion, Panther, Wolf, Bear, Cat Predator Silhouette Illustration

1920-1930

About the Item

Pioneering Woman Illustrator Margery Stocking Hart draws a pen-and-ink story depicting a round table of predators encircling a vulnerable bunny rabbit. In the second panel, the preditors plung,e and the rabbit escapes with the possible help of a bear. Two panels. Signed lower left. Unframed. Published: The Century Magazine. Margery Amy Stocking was born September 20, 1888 in East Orange, New Jersey. Her father, Alpheus C. Stocking, was born 1858 in New York. Her mother, Amy Melville, was born in 1865 in New York. Her parents married in Brooklyn on October 7, 1886. She was the firstborn of their four children. Her younger brother Harvey was born 1891, Gwendolyn in 1895, and Willard in 1902. They lived at 4397 North Grove Street in East Orange, NJ. She studied at the Chase School of Art and the Art Students League of New York, where she studied with Frank Vincent Dumond (1865-1951). He was an influential teacher of many artists, such as Delos Palmer, Edgar Franklin Wittmack and Herbert F. Dunton. Dumond was also the Director of the Old Lime School of Art in Connecticut, where Margery Stocking studied art in the summertime. Lyme Connecticut was a bohemian artist colony that included George Avison, Delos Palmer, and Remington Schuyler Her illustrations appeared in 1912 in Harper's Magazine. In 1922 she became the first woman to receive the Beaux Arts Medal from the Yale School of Architecture. She illustrated books, such as The Animals Own Story Book by Ellen Babbit for Century Co.(1930), Here They Are - Amos 'n' Andy by C. Correll for Long & Smith Inc.(1931), and The Story of Earth and Sky by H. Washburn, for Century Co.(1933)
  • Creator:
    Margery Stocking Hart (1888 - 1993, American)
  • Creation Year:
    1920-1930
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 11.2 in (28.45 cm)Width: 10.5 in (26.67 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
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  • Condition:
    light toning unobtrusive smudged and creases on extreme edges outside the live area.
  • Gallery Location:
    Miami, FL
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU385311947072
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