Harriet Roosevelt Richards Explained

Harriet Roosevelt Richards
Birth Date:June 1867
Birth Place:Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Death Place:Southwest Harbor, Maine, United States
Occupation:Illustrator
Parents:Charles Brinckerhoff Richards
Relatives:Charles Cutler Torrey (brother-in-law)

Harriet Roosevelt Richards (June 1867[1] – 1932) was an American illustrator, best known for her work in children's books and magazines.

Early life and education

Harriet Roosevelt Richards was born in Hartford, Connecticut, the daughter of Charles Brinckerhoff Richards and Agnes Edwards Goodwin Richards.[2] [3] Both of her parents were born in New York; her father was a mechanical engineer and a professor at Yale University.[4] Her younger sister Marian married historian Charles Cutler Torrey, another Yale professor.[5] Richards studied art with Frank Weston Benson in Boston and Howard Pyle in Wilmington, and at the Yale School of Fine Arts.[6]

Career

Richards lived in Wilmington, Delaware from 1905 to 1912. She was a member of the Plastic Club in Philadelphia, and exhibited with the New Haven Paint and Clay Club,[7] [8] and with the Washington Water Color Club.[9]

Richards's illustrations appeared in children's magazines including Wide Awake, St. Nicholas, The Youth's Companion, and Harper's Young People. She illustrated books for young readers, written by authors including Elizabeth Weston Timlow,[10] Anna Chapin Ray,[11] Helen Hunt Jackson,[12] and Louisa May Alcott.

Books illustrated by Richards

Personal life

Richards died at age 65, in Southwest Harbor, Maine, in 1932.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Some sources give 1850 or 1881 as Richards's birth year. 1867 is the year on her gravestone, and this matches the 1870 and 1880 federal censuses, where she is recorded in her family's Hartford household as a 2-year-old child and a 12-year-old child, respectively; via Ancestry
  2. News: 1919-04-21 . Charles Richards Yale Prof, is Dead . 13 . New Britain Herald . 2022-10-20 . Newspapers.com.
  3. News: September 30, 1903 . By a New Haven Artist . 7 . New Haven Daily Morning Journal and Courier . October 19, 2022 . NewspaperArchive.com.
  4. News: 1919-04-24 . Funeral of Prof. Charles B. Richards . 10 . Hartford Courant . 2022-10-20 . Newspapers.com.
  5. News: 1911-06-26 . Married . 9 . The New York Times . 2022-10-20 . Newspapers.com.
  6. Book: Boston Public Library . The Artist and the child : exhibition of children's books and original illustrations from the John D. Merriam Collection . 1980 . Boston : Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston . Boston Public Library . 978-0-89073-065-2 . 31 . Internet Archive.
  7. Web site: Harriet Roosevelt Richards . 2022-10-19 . Delaware Art Museum . en.
  8. November 4, 1922 . New Haven . American Art News . 21 . 4 . 8 . Internet Archive.
  9. News: Mechlin . Leila . 1923-10-27 . Water Color Club Exhibition Opens . 2 . Evening Star . 2022-10-19 . Newspapers.com.
  10. Web site: Timlow . Elizabeth Westyn . 1895 . Cricket . 2022-10-19 . Project Gutenberg.
  11. Book: Ray, Anna Chapin . Day, her year in New York . 1907 . Boston : Little, Brown . University of California Libraries.
  12. Book: Jackson, Helen Hunt . Nelly's silver mine. A story of Colorado life . Richards . Harriet Roosevelt . 1910 . Little, Brown . Boston.
  13. Web site: Coolidge . Susan . 1892 . Rhymes and Ballads for Girls and Boys . 2022-10-19 . UF Digital Collections.
  14. November 1894 . For Boys and Girls . Book News . 13 . 147 . 116 . Internet Archive.
  15. Book: Timlow, Elizabeth Westyn . Cricket at the seashore. . Richards . Harriet Roosevelt . 1896 . Estes and Lauriat . Boston.
  16. Web site: Timlow . Elizabeth Westyn . 1897 . Eunice and Cricket . 2022-10-19 . Project Gutenberg.
  17. Book: Alcott, Louisa May . Jack and Jill . Richards . Harriet Roosevelt . 1905 . Boston : Roberts Brothers . New York Public Library.
  18. News: 1905-12-23 . Miss Alcott's Books . 27 . Sun-Journal . 2022-10-19 . Newspapers.com.
  19. Jane Pentzer Myers, Stories of Enchantment (A. C. McClurg & Co., 1901); via Project Gutenberg
  20. Book: Bailey, Alice Ward . Roberta and her brothers . Richards . Harriet Roosevelt . 1906 . Little, Brown and Co. . May G. Quigley collection. . Boston.
  21. Book: Ray, Anna Chapin . Sidney: her senior year . 1910 . Boston, Little, Brown, and Company . The Library of Congress.
  22. Book: Ray, Anna Chapin . Janet at odds . 1909 . Boston : Little, Brown . University of California Libraries.
  23. Book: Ray, Anna Chapin . Over the quicksands . Richards . Harriet Roosevelt . 1910 . Little, Brown, and Company . Boston.
  24. Book: Ray, Anna Chapin . Buddie at Gray Buttes camp . 1912 . Boston : Little, Brown . The Library of Congress.
  25. Book: Ray, Anna Chapin . Buddie, the story of a boy . 1911 . Boston, Little, Brown, and company . The Library of Congress.
  26. Book: Ray, Anna Chapin . The responsibilities of Buddie . 1913 . Boston, Little, Brown, and company . The Library of Congress.
  27. Book: MacLeod, Della Campbell . The maiden manifest . Richards . Harriet Roosevelt . 1913 . Little, Brown, and Company . Boston . HathiTrust.
  28. Anne Warner, Sunshine Jane (1914), via Project Gutenberg
  29. News: 1916-10-19 . Books to Shorten the Winter (advertisement) . 2 . The Washington Times . 2022-10-20 . Newspapers.com.
  30. Web site: Abbott . Jane . 1920 . Highacres . 2022-10-19 . Project Gutenberg.
  31. Web site: Abbott . Jane . 1922 . Red-Robin . 2022-10-19 . Project Gutenberg.

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