In a career spanning more than three-quarters of a century, Maine artist Dahlov Ipcar has written and illustrated more than thirty children's and young adult books, starting with The Little Fisherman (written by Margaret Wise Brown) in 1945 and including The Cat at Night, Hardscrabble Harvest, and My Wonderful Christmas Tree. Her unique and distinctively modern style helped change the role of artwork in children's literature. She was born in 1917 in Vermont and raised in New York City. Her parents, the famed sculptor William Zorach and artist Marguerite Zorach, bought a farm on Georgetown Island in 1923, where Ipcar first summered and later moved with her husband Adolph in 1937. She still lives on the farm and continues to paint almost every day. In 2010, she released her first new book in more than twenty years, Dahlov Ipcar's Farmyard Alphabet, a board book with original text and illustrations taken from eleven of her previously published books.
Ipcar has left behind a wonderful and extensive legacy...She
produced many enduring children's books of course, such as
Hardcrabble Harvest, The Cat at Night, and Wild and Tame
Animals...The disarming fact that Ipcar worked up until her last
day calls to mind another hard worker, Big Betty, the one horse of
Ipcar's classic picture book, One Horse Farm...a perfect example of
Ipcar's timeless illustrations, their exquisite palette, quietly
expressive figures and sublime backdrops offering an absorbing
visual narrative...When I think of Dahlov Ipcar's legacy many
things come to mind, but her concern for personal character and
integrity, so deftly and powerfully expressed, are something for
which I will always carry a grateful memory.
- from A Farewell to Dahlov Ipcar, Publishers Weekly, Feb. 2017
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