CANADIAN WONDER TALES with Illustrations by George Sheringham

 George Sheringham (13 November 1884 – 11 November 1937), was a British painter and theatre designer.

 

                                                              

Sheringham first exhibited in Paris and later in Venice, Brussels, and Berlin. His one-man exhibitions included one in Paris in 1905, in London at the Ryder Gallery the same year, one in Melbourne, one in New York and seven more in London. He exhibited with the International Society from 1922.

Though best known as a stage designer and decorative artist, Sheringham also illustrated books by Max Beerbohm (including The Happy Hypocrite (1915)) and Edmond Rostand (La Princesse Lointaine, 1919). In 1917, he illustrated Canadian Wonder Tales by Cyrus MacMillan. In 1921, he collaborated with his brother Hugh on a book about fishing, The Book of the Fly Rod. He wrote Drawing in Pen and Pencil (1922), with James Laver, Design in the Theatre (1927)^] and with Rupert Mason and R. Boyd Morrison he edited Robes of Thespis, Costume Designs by Modern Artists (1928). His work was also part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics.

 

 

 THE GREAT COURT-TENT WAS FILLED WITH GLOOSKAP S PEOPLE FOR THE
SUN S TRIAL

 Frontispiece

 

 

" MY SEIGNEUR, YOU COMMANDED A TIENS-BON-LA AND I HAVE

                              BROUGHT YOU ONE, THE BEST THAT WAS EVER MADE."

 

THE GIRL LOOKED THROUGH THE HOLE, AND SAW THE EARTH FAR BENEATH

 

 

"WHERE ARE YOU GOING WITH THE COW ?"

THE BAD INDIAN

"SO THEY DREW LOTS TO SEE WHO SHOULD SEEK HIM IN THE FOREST"

"A MEETING OF ALL THE FISH IN THE SEA WAS CALLED"

 

"THAT NIGHT WHEN ALL THE VILLAGE WAS ASLEEP, THE BOY WENT TO THE
FOOT OF THE MOUNTAIN"

"THE SNOW LAY DEEP ON THE PLAINS, AND MANY SNOW-BIRDS WERE FLYING
AROUND LOOKING FOR FOOD"

 

"I SHOULD LIKE TO SEE MY MOTHER S PEOPLE IF THEY ARE ANYWHERE ON
THE EARTH"

 

"THE GREAT EAGLE MADE THE WINDS FOR HIM"

 

 

"THE PEOPLE WERE ALL GATHERED FOR THE WEDDING"

 

"HE SAW FOUR BEAUTIFUL MAIDENS SITTING ON THE ICE BRAIDING THEIR
HAIR"

 

"HER NAME IS SUMMER"

 

"GLOOSKAP GATHERED HIS PEOPLE ON THE SHORE AND BADE THE WHALES
CARRY THEM TO THEIR OLD HOME"

 

"THE LITTLE MAN WEATHERS THE STORM IN GLOOSKAP S HEAVY CANOE"

 

"GLOOSKAP WALKED ALONE BY THE OCEAN"

 

"I AM TIRED OF THE LONELY LIFE ; I HAVE COME FOR YOUR DAUGHTER"

 

"SHE WAS VERY BEAUTIFUL AND GENTLE"

 

"THE CHIEF HAD A BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER"

 

"A VERY BEAUTIFUL GIRL SITTING ON THE BANK OF THE STREAM"

 

"SHE CLIMBED INTO A TREE THAT STRETCHED OUT OVER THE WATER"

 

"MANY WOMEN SAT AROUND IN A CIRCLE, ALL SAD AND WEEPING"

 

"HE WALKED THROUGH THE FOREST UNTIL HE CAME SUDDENLY UPON A
WIDE AND OPEN RED PLAIN"

 

"IN THE TRIBE WAS A VERY HANDSOME YOUNG MAN"

 

"FROM THE BEACH CAME A LARGE WHITE SEAGULL"

 

"THE NIGHT WAS ALWAYS ONE OF GREAT MERRIMENT AND FEASTING"

 

"HE SAW FOUR LARGE FISH LYING ON THE ICE"

 

"IN THE EVENING THEY CAME TO A CAMP"

"HE BOUGHT A LARGE QUANTITY OF FOOD, PUT IT IN A BASKET, AND CARRIED
IT TO THE ANIMAL YARD"

"THEN HE DRESSED HIS SISTER IN GOOD CLOTHES AND WASHED AND COMBED
HER HAIR"

 

"THE PIGS CAME GRUNTING OVER THE SAND"

"THE PEOPLE SET OUT TO FIND THE GIANTS. SOON THEY CAME TO THEIR
CAVE" 

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