Tasha Tudor (1915–2008) is one of America’s best-known and beloved illustrators. Her first little story, Pumpkin Moonshine, was published in 1938.
She illustrated nearly one hundred books, the last being the 2003 release, The Corgiville Christmas. She received many awards and honors, including Caldecott Honors for Mother Goose and 1 is One. Many of her books are printed in foreign languages and distributed around the world. She also created thousand of Christmas cards, Advent calendars, valentines, posters, and other works throughout her 70 year career.
From a young age Tasha Tudor was interested in the home arts. She excelled in cooking, canning, cheese-making, ice cream making and many other home skills.
Once summer arrives, Tasha Tudor would always leave her art table to spend the season tending her large, beautiful garden which surrounds her home.
These exquisitely beautiful photographs are of a young Tasha and her children as photographed by Nell Dorr in the 1940s for her book Mother and Child.
She illustrated nearly one hundred books, the last being the 2003 release, The Corgiville Christmas. She received many awards and honors, including Caldecott Honors for Mother Goose and 1 is One. Many of her books are printed in foreign languages and distributed around the world. She also created thousand of Christmas cards, Advent calendars, valentines, posters, and other works throughout her 70 year career.
From a young age Tasha Tudor was interested in the home arts. She excelled in cooking, canning, cheese-making, ice cream making and many other home skills.
Once summer arrives, Tasha Tudor would always leave her art table to spend the season tending her large, beautiful garden which surrounds her home.
These exquisitely beautiful photographs are of a young Tasha and her children as photographed by Nell Dorr in the 1940s for her book Mother and Child.
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| Tudor and children in a circle |
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| Tasha and Polly with Polly's daughters Rosamond and Mary playing ring-around-the-rosy |
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| Tasha Tudor having her dress buttoned |
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| Tasha Tudor holding baby, probably Bethany |
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| Nursing Mother |
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| Bethany drinking from a dipper |
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| Bethany and Tasha at kitchen table |
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| Tasha hanging clothes |
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| Tasha Tudor in white dress |
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| Tasha Tudor |
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| Bethany and Seth |
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| Tudor women and children in a circle |
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| Tasha and Polly with Polly's daughters Rosamond and Mary playing ring-around-the-rosy |
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| Family by lamplight |
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| Pregnant |
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| Tudor women and children in a circle |
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| Tasha Tudor in bedroom |
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| Nursing mother in canopy bed |
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| Girls in hats |
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| Bethany in a chair looking at bird cage suspended in window |
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| Bethany and Seth in bed |
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| Happiness |
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| Tasha in her pantry making jelly |
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| Tasha Tudor sewing |
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| Mother and child |
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| Bethany holding chicken |
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| Tasha in chicken yard |
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| Barbara (Dorr) Tenery on a hilltop |
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| The Sunday dress |
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| Tasha Tudor dressing Bethany |
