![]() ![]() Her father descended from the physician on the Mayflower. Her mother was from the Sisson family, generations of Rhode Island Quakers. ![]() Maud Fuller was born August 5, 1890, in Kingston, New York to a family with deep Yankee roots. They are known for technical excellence, exuberant color, and the introduction of international folk and modernist themes. Of the 50 books they both wrote and illustrated, many were recognized with important awards or critical acclaim. Both prolific and versatile, they produced illustrations for more than 120 trade and textbooks, anthologies, and picture books. They worked as a seamless partnership for more than five decades. The Petershams worked closely with such pioneering children's book editors Louise Seaman Bechtel and May Massee, and with such innovative printers as Charles Stringer and William Glaser. Maud Fuller Petersham (Aug– November 29, 1971) and Miska Petersham (Septem– May 15, 1960) were American writers and illustrators who helped set the direction for illustrated children's books that followed. Frontispiece of the 1922 first edition of Carl Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories, illustrated by the Petershams. ![]()
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