Calico Brush

Description: “Calico Brush” by Rachel Field with wood engravings by Allen Lewis is a children’s historical novel first published November 1931 by the MacMillan Company. It is the story of a French immigrant girl, Marguerite Ledoux who finds herself on the island-scattered coast of Maine. It takes place in 1743 and shows the struggles of the early settlers through the eyes of a young girl who is given to a family as a bound-out girl after the death of her family. It received a Newberry Honor award in 1932. The name Calico Bush is used for a Mountain Laurel native to the eastern United States, including Maine. It is also the title of a ballad referred to in the book. Rachel Lyman Field (1894 – 1942) was an American novelist, poet, and children's fiction writer with a long list of works and awards. She is best known for the Newbery Award–winning Hitty, Her First Hundred Years but also won a National Book Award, Newbery Honor award and two of her books are on the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award list. Field was a descendant of David Dudley Field, the early New England clergyman and writer. She grew up in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Her first published work was an essay entitled "A Winter Walk" printed in St. Nicholas Magazine when she was 16. She was educated at Radcliffe College where she studied writing under George Pierce Baker. According to Ruth Hill Viguers, Field was "fifteen when she first visited Maine and fell under the spell of its 'island-scattered coast'. Allen Lewis (1873 – 1957) moved with his family to Buffalo, New York where after high school, he enrolled at the Buffalo Art Students League where he studied under the Canadian painter, George Bridgman. In 1894 he sailed for Europe and when he returned to America he settled in New York and set up a studio in a warehouse owned by Hamilton Easter Field. Field, whom Lewis called his guardian angel, had helped the struggling artist to sell some of his prints in Paris. While in Paris, Lewis had designed five lithographed bookplates for Field, and then created two more following his return. The generous Field introduced Lewis to many of his friends, who in turn offered commissions to the young artist. Much of the demand was for Lewis's bookplates, executing more than fifty bookplates in the course of his career. He went on to illustrate numerous books and spent years teaching.

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