Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 15:51:31 -0500
To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Tasha Tudor


Thanks Hobey for your message about Tasha Tudor and the amazing illustration!  She sounds like a wonderful person and I am glad to know more about her, after hearing of her indirectly for what seems like a long time.

The illustration is quite amazing--do you know what show is being performed in it?

Best wishes for 2009!

john bell


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From: puptcrit-bounces-AT-puptcrit.org on behalf of Hobey Ford
Sent: Thu 1/1/2009 11:44 AM
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Tasha Tudor
 
I have attached an illustration  by Tasha of a performance in her
barn.  (I have photoshopped the seam between pages)

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On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Hobey Ford <hobeyone-AT-gmail.com> wrote:
>   This last year marked the passing of Tasha Tudor who as well as an
>   illustrator and later day Martha Stewart was a doll and marionette
>   maker.  Tasha had yearly performances in her barn in VT.  Neighbors
>   and friends would gather for these quaint shows and sit on hay bales
>   to watch the performances.  In her early years she toured her shows
>   around new England including The Natural History Musuem in NYC.
>   Though we weren't close, she was my mother's half sister and we had a
>   year long coorespondance around 15 years ago when I did interviews
>   with her for an article in the Puppetry Journal.  Childhood visits to
>   her farm were like a step into 19th century New England.  She and my
>   cousins dressed in 19th century garb.  Her farm and children were the
>   models for her artwork.  Her marionettes were very simple and while
>   the shows weren't rivetting puppet theater the whole experience was
>   magical.  She was an astute business woman and had her own empire
>   based on her books and artwork and later in life she became the model
>   along with grandchildren and neighbors for photogragher Richard Brown
>   who did a series of books on her world.   She was most famous for her
>   illustrated childrens book and her illustrations of classics like
>   "Wind in the Willows" and "The Secret Garden".  She was 92 years old.
>
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