Maria Louise Kirk

Maria Louise Kirk (geb. 21. Juni 1860 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania; gest. 21. Juni 1938) war eine US-amerikanische Illustratorin und Malerin.

Kirk studierte in Philadelphia Kunst, erst an der School of Design for Women, dann an der Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Im Laufe ihrer Karriere illustrierte sie über 50 Bücher. Ihre Arbeit ist stilistisch eigenständig und wenig vom Jugendstil oder Art déco beeinflusst.[1]

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  1. M. L. Kirk Biography. Pook Press, abgerufen am 8. Juli 2020 (britisches Englisch).

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Title: Pinocchio
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Collodi, Carlo, 1826-1890
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Publisher: J.B. Lippincott company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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HE SAW HIS YELLOW WIG IN THE PUPPETS HAND

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FROM THE FULL MOON FELL NOKOMIS - from The Story of Hiawatha, Adapted from Longfellow by Winston Stokes and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Illustrator M. L. Kirk - 1910.jpg
FROM THE FULL MOON FELL NOKOMIS - from The Story of Hiawatha, Adapted from Longfellow by Winston Stokes and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Illustrator M. L. Kirk - 1910
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Cover: The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924). Publisher: New York: F.A. Stokes, 1911. *AC85 B9345 911s, Houghton Library, Harvard University
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Title: The princess and Curdie
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: MacDonald, George, 1824-1905
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Publisher: Philadelphia London : J.B. Lippincott
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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rds, and the sea men. And ever as eachbird arrived at the rear of the enemy, it turned,ascended, and sped to the front to charge again. The moment the battle began, the princessspony took fright, and turned and fled. But themaid wheeled her horse across the road and stop-ped him; and they waited together the result ofthe battle. And as they waited, it seemed to the princessright strange that the pigeons, every one as itcame to the rear, and fetched a compass to gatherforce for the re-attack, should make the head ofher attendant on the red horse the goal aroundwhich it turned; so that about them was an un-intermittent flapping and flashing of wings, anda curving, sweeping torrent of the side-poisedwheeling bodies of birds. Strange also it seemedthat the maid should be constantly waving herarm towards the battle. And the time of the mo-tion of her arm so fitted with the rushes of birds,that it looked as if the birds obeyed her gesture,and she was casting living javelins by the thou- 294
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THE MOMENT A PIGEON HAD ROUNDED HER HAND IT FLEW OFFSTRAIGHT AS A BOLT FROM A BOW THE BATTLE sand against the enemy. The moment a pigeonhad rounded her head, it went off straight as boltfrom bow, and with trebled velocity. But of these strange things, others besides theprincess had taken note. From a rising groundwhence they watched the battle in growing dis-may, the leaders of the enemy saw the maid andher motions, and, concluding her an enchantress,whose were the airy legions humiliating them, setspurs to their horses, made a circuit, outflankedthe king, and came down upon her. But sud-denly by her side stood a stalwart old man in thegarb of a miner, who, as the general rode at her,sword in hand, heaved his swift mattock, andbrought it down with such force on the foreheadof his charger, that he fell to the ground like alog. His rider shot over his head and laystunned. Had not the great red horse rearedand wheeled, he would have fallen beneath thatof the general. With lifted sabre, o

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HURLED THE PINE-CONES DOWN UPON HIM - from The Story of Hiawatha, Adapted from Longfellow by Winston Stokes and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Illustrator M. L. Kirk - 1910