Alice Bolam Preston
1888 - 1958
Preston lived in Beverly Farms, Massachusetts. She is best known for illustrating children's books in the 1910s and '20s, primarily for Houghton Mifflin. She had a particular affinity for fairy illustrations. With crisp lines and rich colors, her work is stylistically akin to that of Jessie Willcox Smith or Charles Robinson.[1]
Preston also created illustrations and covers for magazines such as Vogue and House Beautiful.
In 2014-15, the Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Massachusetts held a retrospective exhibition of her work.[DJackson 3/10/2021 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Bolam_Preston]
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Preston, Lancashire, England, 1859 - 1907, London
Exeter, New Hampshire, 1850 - 1931, Stockbridge, Massachusetts
Buffalo, New York, 1864 - 1947, Baltimore, Maryland
Boston, 1834 - 1926, Mount Desert, Maine
Meath, Ireland, 1844 - 1890, Boston
Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, 1846 - 1912