Holly Meade
American writer
- Writer
- artist
Holly Meade (b. Winchester, Massachusetts, September 14, 1956 - d. June 28, 2013) was an American artist best known for her woodblock prints and for her illustrations for children's picture books.[1][2]
Meade's illustrations for Hush!: A Thai Lullaby (1996, Orchard Books,) by Minfong Ho won a 1997 Caldecott Honor for illustration.[3]
John Willy and Freddy McGee (Marshall Cavendish, 1998,) which Meade both wrote and illustrated, was an honoree for the Charlotte Zolotow Award for Creative Writing.[1]
Biography
Meade was the daughter of Russell and Joanne Meade of Winchester, Massachusetts. She earned her A.B. from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1978.[1] She lived in Sedgwick, Maine and had two children, Jenny and Noah Smick.[1][4][5]
Career
Meade worked in "drawing, collage, printmaking, basket making, and fabric design."[1] In 1992, she illustrated her first of many children's picture books, an endeavor that she called "the other focus of my work life".[1] She began to work in woodblock printing in 2002, following a workshop with printmaker Hester Stinnett at the Haystack Mountain School.[1][6] Some of her prints are in the permanent collection of the Portland Museum of Art.[6]
Woodblock prints illustrate some of her later picture books, including David Elliott’s series that includes On the Farm (Candlewick, 2008), In the Wild (2010) and In the Sea (2012).[1]
Children's books
She used torn paper to illustrate the 1997 book Cocoa Ice, which was given a Lupine Award by the Maine Library Association. Meade describe the challenge of illustrating the parallel story with, "pictures where a tropical place and warm palette must go hand in hand with a bare landscape and cool palette."[7]
Her book John Willy and Freddy McGee was a 1999 Charlotte Zolotow Award Honor Book.[8]
Selected bibliography
The follow is a selection of some of the works Meade published.[9]
Author and Illustrator
2001 A Place to Sleep
2001 The Rabbit's Bride by the Brother's Grimm
2003 John Willy and Freddy McGee
2005 Inside, Inside, Inside
Illustrator
1996 Hush!: A Thai Lullaby by Minfong Ho
1997 Cocoa Ice by Diana Appelbaum
2004 Blue Bowl Down by C. M. Millen
2004 Peek!: A Thai Hide-and-Seek by Minfong Ho
2005 Hop! by Phyllis Root
2005 Quack! by Phyllis Root
2005 Rata-Pata-Scata-Fata: A Caribbean Story by Phillis Gershator
2007 Sky Sweeper by Phillis Gershator
2007 Virginnie's Hat by Dori Chacaonas
2008 On the Farm by David Elliott
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h Peterson, Karyn (5 July 2013). "Holly Meade, Artist and Kids' Book Author-Illustrator, Dies at 56". School Library Journal. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
- ^ Weaver, Jacqueline (8 July 2013). "Printmaker Holly Meade dies at 56". Ellsworth American. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
- ^ "Caldecott Medal & Honor Books, 1938–present". American Library Association. 30 November 1999. Retrieved November 17, 2012.
- ^ "Holly Meade". Newburyport News. 1 July 2013. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
- ^ Peterson, Karyn M. (6 July 2013). "Holly Meade, Artist and Kids' Book Author/Illustrator, Dies at 56". School Library Journal. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
- ^ a b "Holly Meade: Woodblock Prints". USM Libraries. University of Southern Maine. 7 October 2015. Archived from the original on 28 January 2016. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
- ^ "Cocoa Ice" a delightful treat Well-illustrated book charts course of two girls' connection, Julia Emily Hathaway, Bangor Daily News, 12 Sep 1998.
- ^ "Holly Meade (1956–2013)". Courthouse Gallery Fine Art. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
- ^ "Meade, Holly (1956 - 2013)". Maine State Library. Retrieved 20 September 2022.
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American woodblock printmakers
Printers
- Ada Gilmore (1883–1955)
- Ella Sophonisba Hergesheimer (1873–1943)
- Mabel Hewit (1903–1984)
- Edna Boies Hopkins (1872–1937)
- Blanche Lazzell (1878–1956)
- Karl Knaths (1891–1971)
- Ethel Mars (1876–ca. 1956)
- Mildred McMillen (1884–1940)
- Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt (1878–1955)
- Maud Hunt Squire (1873–1954)
- Mary Tannahill (1863–1951)
- Anna Heyward Taylor (1879–1956)
- Ferol Sibley Warthen (1890–1986)
- Agnes Weinrich (1873–1946)
- William Zorach (1887–1966)
in Japan
- Charles W. Bartlett (1860–1940)
- Sarah Brayer (born 1957)
- Elizabeth Eaton Burton (1869–1937)
- Daniel Kelly (born 1947)
- Yasuhide Kobashi (1931–2003)
- Bertha Lum (1869–1954)
- Lilian May Miller (1895–1943)
- Hiroki Morinoue (born 1947)
- Chiura Obata (1885–1975)
- Masami Teraoka (born 1936)
- Howard Albert (1911–2004)
- Katrina Andry (born 1981)
- John E. Buck (born 1946)
- Arthur Wesley Dow (1857–1922)
- Janet Doub Erickson (born 1924)
- Charles Buckles Falls (1874–1960)
- Frances Gearhart (1869–1959)
- May Gearhart (1872–1951)
- Norma Bassett Hall (1889–1957)
- James D. Havens (1900–1960)
- Helen West Heller (1872–1955)
- Helen Hyde (1868-1919)
- Dennis Ichiyama (living person)
- Tom Killion (artist) (born 1953)
- Paul Landacre (1893–1963)
- J. J. Lankes (1884–1960)
- Holly Meade (1956–2013)
- Mabel Pugh (1891–1986)
- William S. Rice (1873–1963)
- Brian Shure (born 1952)
- Margaret Ely Webb (1877–1965)
- Arthur Wesley Dow (1857–1922)
- Chiura Obata (1885–1975)
- William S. Rice (1873–1963)
- Brian Shure (born 1952)
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