The Art of Pierangelo Boog: Nights with Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris with illustrations by Milo Winter

Montag, 27. Juli 2015

Nights with Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris with illustrations by Milo Winter

Milo Winter (1888 – 1956) was a well-known book illustrator, who produced works for editions of Aesop's Fables, Arabian Nights, Alice in Wonderland, Gulliver's Travels,Tanglewood Tales (1913) and others.

He was born in Princeton, Illinois in 1888. He attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago to receive his art training. He wrote and illustrated his first book, Billy Popgun, which he submitted to Houghton Mifflin in 1912. Since then, Winter worked most of his life in Chicago, illustrating for publishers.

On July 20, 1879 an undersized thirty-year-old journalist from Atlanta known as Joe Harris began a journey from relative obscurity to interregional fame. On that day, the Atlanta Constitution published the young copy editor's "Story of Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Fox as told by

Uncle Remus." Within months, magazines across the country were reprinting his tales, and after more than 1,000 written requests for a collection, the first Uncle Remus book was published in November, 1880.

At the time, Harris said his purpose was not ethnology, or folklore analysis, but simply documentation. He doubted that his stories and character sketches would have any lasting historical value. He was wrong. ( from http://www.uncleremus.com/ )