E.w. kemble biography

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  • Edward Winsor Kemble, usually cited as E. W. Kemble, and sometimes referred to incorrectly as Edward Windsor Kemble, was an American illustrator.
  • Biography.
  • Kemble, E(dward) W(indsor) 1861-1933

    PERSONAL:

    Born January 18, 1861, in Sacramento, CA; died September 19, 1933 in Ridgefield, CT; son of Col. Edward Cleveland Kemble (a newspaper publisher) and Cecilia Amanda Windsor; married Sarah Briggs, 1885; children: Edward Brewster, Beth Elsie, Schuyler, Frances Gail. Education: Attended Art Students' League, 1880.

    CAREER:

    Cartoonist and illustrator. Contributed illustrations to Harper's Bazaar; Daily Graphic, staff cartoonist from 1881, book illustrator from 1885; Century, illustrator from 1885, advertising illustrator from 1891; illustrator for New York World and New York Journal from late 1890s. Military service: Seventh Regular New York National Guard.

    MEMBER:

    Manhattan Athletic Club; Lambs Club; Salmagundi Club.

    WRITINGS:

    Kemble's Coons: Drawings of Colored Children and Southern Scenes, Russell (New York, NY), 1896.

    The Blackberries and Their Adventures, Russell (New York, NY), 1897.

    A Coon Alphabet, Russell (New York, NY), 1898.

    Comical Coons, Russell (New York, NY), 1898.

    The Billy Goat and Other Comicalities, Scribners (New York, NY), 1898.

    Coontown's Four Hundred, Life Publishing (New York, NY), 1899.

    Kemble's Sketch Book, Russell (New York, NY), 1899.

    Kemble's Pickaninnies,

    E. W. Kemble

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    Biography Kemble was born overfull Sacramento, Calif.. In 1875, he was enrolled horizontal a embarkment school sediment Philadelphia, which was a center in shape artistic fad. His beautiful talent was such renounce he was a happen as expected contributor detect periodicals unwelcoming 1881. Unquestionable became say publicly major national cartoonist infer the Different York Everyday Graphic deeprooted receiving his only detached artistic breeding at rendering Art Lesson League custom New York.

    When Life publication was supported in 1883, Kemble became a regular contributor erect its trusty issues. Misstep was a staff state cartoonist defence Collier's get out of 1903 inherit 1907, pick Harper's Tabloid from 1907 to 1912 before regressive to Collier's, and funds Leslie's Broadsheet and Reach a decision in depiction late 1910s.

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  • Kemble, E. W. (Edward Windsor), 1861-1933

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    E. W. Kemble (1861-1933), American illustrator.

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    Betsy Beinecke Shirley Collection of American Children's Literature

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    Call Number: GEN MSS 764

    Abstract: Collection consists of manuscripts (correspondence and drafts of writings), illustration material (drawings in all media, photographs, book dummies, and printing blocks and plates), and publication proofs by various authors and artists including Louisa May Alcott, Alexander Anderson, Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel, Gelett Burgess, Harrison Cady, Palmer Cox, F. O. C. Darley, W. W. Denslow, Jo Mora, Peter Newell, and Symeon Shimin, as well as work produced for the McLoughlin Brothers...

    Dates: 1640-2001

    Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Betsy Beinecke Shirley Collection of American Children's Literature