Florence Scovel Shinn, early work - 4

In Childhood's Happy Hour

From the Editor's Drawer of Harper's Monthly Magazine for August 1903. 

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Detail of the above illustration. Look at those faces and poses. They are a wonderful mix of cartoon and illustration, somewhat wasted it seems to be found among the end pages of the magazine.

Lovey Mary was a piece written by Alice Caldwell Hegan [Rice] for the March 1903 issue of The Century Magazine in a number of installments. Hegan (later, Rice) had already gained fame as the author of Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. 

The Unitarians have such nice children's parties? Isn't that a line that Edward Gorey could have used?

The Levitation of Miss Weeks by Josephine Daskam Bacon appeared in the August 1904 issue of Scribner's Monthly Magazine. This is a very fine page layout showing off Shinn's fine drawing style. 

Notice her restrained use of linework in keeping the faces clear and crisp.

I ran this image, below, among my posts relating to the much more famous Charles Dana Gibson.

Another of my favorites is Florence Scovel Shinn, 1871-1940. She obviously didn't feel compelled to scratch away with her pen in homage to Gibson. She, too, will reappear in these postings at a later date. She became famous in a later career as a motivational writer and speaker.

She was one of four wives of the notorious Ashcan School painter Everett Shinn 1876-1953.

I've added color tint blocks to the illustrations.