The Library and Spinelli Archives celebrates the life of New England writer/illustrator Tasha Tudor, who died on June 18, 2008 at her home in Vermont.
According to an article in the Los Angeles Times,”reviewers often praised the 44 books Tudor wrote and illustrated for evoking the beauty and ideals of an era long past. Often working in watercolor and pen and ink, she had a style that critics called peaceful, that showed an appreciation for family life, animals and nature. Painting at her kitchen table, she wore handmade, ankle-length dresses that were fashionable in the early 1800s.”
A display of materials by Tasha Tudor are on display in Spinelli Archive and near the Information Desk. Most materials may be checked out.
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I will miss Tasha Tudor! She was a throwback and proud of it, but that made her illustrations and books just wonderful vehicles for evoking beautiful, lost miniature worlds. Certainly she simplified, glamorized, and embellished those worlds–I knew but basked in them anyway. I hope she did go back to the 1830s, as she said she expected to do. Even then, she’d have to be as reclusive as she was in our day to overlook the era’s problems. Wherever she is, she’s making it lovelier.
Becky Noel