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Frank Graham Cootes was born on this day, April 6, in 1879.

He illustrated what is believed to be the first ad to use sexualized imagery to sell products. He was also President Woodrow Wilson’s official portraitist.

“You have to be dedicated down to your bones. You must believe in being an artist… and in yourself.”

This is our #arthistory post on Trina Schart Hyman: https://t.co/MUDYM1izLW #WomensHistoryMonth

In the late 1960’s, Denise Holly Ulinskas submitted art of a bonnet-wearing girl to American Greetings.

It launched a decades-long phenomenon.

This is our #arthistory post on Ulinskas, better known as… Holly Hobbie: https://t.co/aMktt4G3BH #WomensHistoryMonth

At 9, Judith Kerr was a refugee.
At 17, she helped England fight the Nazis.
At 45, she published her first children’s book.
At 95, she published her last children’s book.

This is our #arthistory post on Kerr: https://t.co/sFNhPMb5gE #WomensHistoryMonth

Pearl Frush Mann was born on this day, March 20, in 1907.

In 1960, Mann’s racy “American Girl” pin-up calendars led to a logo commission from a client who wanted to sell 60¢ cakes.

That logo was “Little Debbie”.

When Edmund Evans printed 20,000 copies of Kate Greenaway’s first book, “Under the Window”, he was ridiculed. It was too high for a woman creator.

The book sold over 100,000 copies.

This is our #arthistory post on Greenaway: https://t.co/4WZgt1xo7p
#WomensHistoryMonth

Evaline Ness—ex-wife of “Untouchable” Eliot Ness—won back to back to back Caldecott Honors from 1963 to 1965.

She followed that by winning a Caldecott Medal.

This is our #arthistory post on Ness: https://t.co/1e1Dhuc08d #WomensHistoryMonth

William Steig called Margot Zemach, “the consummate illustrator”. Maurice Sendak credited her for revivifying the American picture book.

Librarians called her a “racist”.

This is our #arthistory post on Zemach: https://t.co/9OGoMpK1Jk #WomensHistoryMonth

❝It's just so important that time that parents spend with their children just reading a book. Magic.❞

This is our #arthistory post on Helen Oxenbury: https://t.co/RRyqlPqf7O #WomensHistoryMonth

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