Grace Paull Explained

Grace Paull
Birth Place:	Cold Brook, New York, U.S.
Death Place:	Cold Brook, New York, U.S.
Education:	Utica Free Academy Pratt Institute Art Students League of New York

Grace A. Paull (1898–1990) was an American artist, illustrator, and author. She designed greeting cards, illustrated children's books, and painted people, landscapes and flowers.

Life and career

Paull was born in 1898 in Cold Brook, New York. She went to high school in Montreal, Canada and then Utica Free Academy where she studied under Mabel E. Northrup. She continued her art studies at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn for three years and after graduating from there at Art Students League and Grand Central Art School in New York City.

After art school, Paull designed greeting cards for several years.^[1] In 1932, Paull started her career of being a children's book illustrator. She was also the author of some of the books she illustrated.

Paull made her home in Cold Brook, where she lived in the historic Cold Brook Feed Mill.^{[2] [3]}

Paull died in 1990.^[4]

Collections

Her work is included in the collections of the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute^[5] and the National Gallery of Art. Illustrations by Paull are included in the Grace Paull Collection at the University of Minnesota Libraries.

Selected works

• Tops and Whistles (1927), illustrator^[6]
• Children of the Handicrafts (1935), illustrator^[7]
• Little Girl with Seven Names (1936), illustrator^[8]
• Benjie's Hat (1938, illustrator
• Dancing Tom by Elizabeth Coatsworth (1938), illustrator
• Homespun Playdays (1941), illustrator
• Forgotten Island (1942), illustrator
• The Middle Sister by Miriam E. Mason (1947), illustrator^[9]
• Crazy Creek by Evelyn Sibley Lampman (1948), illustrator
• The Little Haymakers (1949), illustrator
• The Bounces of Cynthiann by Evelyn Sibley Lampman (1950), illustrator
• The Wonderful Baker (1950), illustrator
• Snowed-In Hill (1953), author and illustrator^[10]
• Come to the City (1959), author and illustrator^[11]

Further reading

• Grace Paull: Author and illustrator of children's books by Gertrude F. Johns, Pine Tree Press (1994))

Notes and References

1. Web site: Grace Paull Collection. University of Minnesota Libraries. May 5, 2020.
2. Book: Encyclopedia of New York State. 9780815608080. Eisenstadt. Peter. 19 May 2005.
3. Book: Kuyahoora Towns. 17 June 2003. 9781439611906.
4. Web site: Winter Sunday in Washington Square. National Gallery of Art. May 5, 2020.
5. Web site: Buildings . 8 May 2022 . Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute.
6. Book: Twentieth Century Children's Writers. Macmillan International Higher Education. 1978. 9781349036486. 67, 285, 635, 727. May 5, 2020. Google Books.
7. Web site: Bulletin. 1939. Barrows. Alice. Bathurst. Effie Geneva. Martens. Elise Henrietta. Moore. Fred. Bowman. Isaiah. McNeely. John Hamilton. Studebaker. John Ward. Sloper. Kirkland. Turosienski. Severin Kazimierz. Williams. Chester Sidney.
8. Book: Twentieth-century Children's Writers. 10 November 1978. 9781349036486. Kirkpatrick. D. L..
9. Web site: Book Review: The Middle Sister . 2023-03-15 . Kirkus Reviews . en.
10. News: July 25, 1953. Some Leading Books for Children To Be Published This Fall. 164. 327. Publishers Weekly. May 5, 2020. Google Books.
11. News: March 1, 1959. Come to the City. Kirkus Reviews. May 5, 2020.