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Eleanor Campbell

1894 – 1986

Illustrator of children's books and portrait artist

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Lived 1894 – 1986 (aged 91–92). Eleanor Campbell was an illustrator.

Eleanor B. Campbell (1894–1986) was an early-twentieth-century illustrator of children's books and portrait artist.

Education and career Campbell was from Philadelphia, and spent part of her childhood in Seattle, Washington. Both her parents had studied art, and one of her sisters was Elizabeth Campbell Warhanik, an artist and one of the founders of Women Painters of Washington. Campbell studied at the Sorbonne. Her watercolors for the series were intended to show "scenes as a child might see the world", she took of her friends' and relations' children. The Dick and Jane illustrations have been criticised for reinforcing class, race and gender stereotypes. White, Jessie Penniman. Top O' the Morning. Joliet: P. F. Volland Company, 1931. Gray, William S. We Look and See. Chicago: Scott, Foresman, 1940. Gray, William S. We Come and Go. Chicago: Scott, Foresman, 1946 & 1947. Campbell, Eleanor, William S. Gray, Paul R. Hanna, Genevieve Anderson Hoyt, Walter Oschman, and John Osebold. Guidebook for a Social Studies Book B "Hello, David". Chicago: Scott, Foresman, 1948. O'Brien, J. A. Fun with John and Jean. Toronto: W. J. Gage, 1952. Gray, William S. The New We Look and See. Chicago: Scott, Foresman, 1956. Campbell, Eleanor -, Elizabeth Rider Montgomery, Dorthy Baruch, and William S. Gray. The World of Dick and Jane and Friends. NY: Scott, Foresman, and Company (Grosset & Dunlap), 2004. (compilation)

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1894
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Died
1986
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illustrator of children's books and portrait artist

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Eleanor Campbell was born in 1894.

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Eleanor Campbell died in 1986.

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Eleanor Campbell was an illustrator.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Eleanor Campbell

· Wikidata: Q61299278

· DBpedia: Eleanor Campbell (illustrator)

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