Grace Paull

Grace A. Paull (1898–1990) was an American artist, illustrator, and author. She designed greeting cards, illustrated children's books, and painted people, landscapes and flowers.

Life and career Paull was born in 1898 in Cold Brook, New York. She went to high school in Montreal, Canada and then Utica Free Academy where she studied under Mabel E. Northrup. She continued her art studies at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn for three years and after graduating from there at Art Students League and Grand Central Art School in New York City.

After art school, Paull designed greeting cards for several years. In 1932, Paull started her career of being a children's book illustrator. She was also the author of some of the books she illustrated.

Paull died in 1990.

Collections

Her work is included in the collections of the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute and the National Gallery of Art. Children of the Handicrafts (1935), illustrator Little Girl with Seven Names (1936), illustrator Benjie's Hat (1938, illustrator Crazy Creek by Evelyn Sibley Lampman (1948), illustrator Come to the City (1959), author and illustrator