GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY JOHN WATSON DAVIS

 John Watson Davis   (1870-1959)

John Watson Davis had a career for six decades as an illustrator; in addition to his religious commissions, his drawings appeared in Zane Grey novels, in editions of Sherlock Holmes tales and Bluebeard, and in other books and magazines.  His father was John Steeple Davis, also a book illustrator.  

Born in New York, Davis moved with his family to Paris when he was ten years old, where he received his art training.  This was a time when many artists from North America and elsewhere flocked to Paris, then the pre-eminent city for the visual arts, to study with masters in schools that emphasized rendering of the human form.  Davis returned to Brooklyn circa 1890, and began his commercial artist career. To avoid confusion with other artists named "John W. Davis," he began signing his work "J. Watson Davis."

 

Frontispiece

 

 

LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD

 

 

 

 

THE FROG PRINCE

 

 

HANSEL AND GRETHEL

CINDERELLA

 THE SLEEPING BEAUTY

SNOW WHITE AND RED ROSE

 

LITTLE THUMB 

 

THE MAGIC MIRROR

THE GARDEN OF THE SORCERESS

THE GOLD CHILDREN

ONE EYE, TWO EYES, THREE EYES