mudwerks: (via Study of a Nude Woman. Pastel, charcoal and watercolor on | Lot #97172 | Heritage Auc
mudwerks: (via Study of a Nude Woman. Pastel, charcoal and watercolor on | Lot #97172 | Heritage Auctions) Study of a Nude Woman. Pastel, charcoal and watercolor on paper… “Garth Montgomery Williams (April 16, 1912 – May 8, 1996) was an American artist who came to prominence in the American postwar era as an illustrator of children’s books. Many of the books he illustrated have become classics of American children’s literature. In Stuart Little, Charlotte’s Web, and in the Little House series of books of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Williams[’s] drawings have become inseparable from how we think of those stories. In that respect… Williams[’s] work belongs in the same class as Sir John Tenniel’s drawings for Alice in Wonderland, or Ernest Shepard’s illustrations for Winnie the Pooh.[1] His friendly, fuzzy baby animals populated a dozen Golden Books…” [wikipedia] -- source link