Pamela Bianco
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Pamela Bianco | |
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| Born | 31 December 1906 Barnes, London, U.K. |
| Died | 1994 |
| Spouse | Robert Schlick
(m. 1930; div. 1955)George Theodore Hartmann
(m. 1955; died 1976) |
| Children | Lorenzo Bianco Schlick |
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Pamela Bianco (December 31, 1906 – 1994) was a British-born American painter, illustrator, and writer, who came to fame as a child prodigy in the 1910s.[1]
Pamela Ruby Bianco was born on New Year's Eve in the Barnes district of London, the daughter of an Italian scholar and bookseller, Francesco Bianco,[2] and an English writer, Margery Williams Bianco (author of The Velveteen Rabbit).[1] She was educated at home, though home for the Biancos was a shifting location, as the family lived in France, Italy, and the United States when Pamela was a child.[3]
Her paintings and drawings were first exhibited as part of a children's show in Turin,[3] then in London in 1918,[3][4] and in New York City in 1921.[3][5] After shows in several American cities, she returned to New York City for a more mature show when she was seventeen years old, at the Knoedler Gallery.[6] Among her early patrons were John Galsworthy, Walter de la Mare, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Nina Wilcox Putnam, and Jo Davidson.[7][8]
Career
Bianco continued to exhibit her works into her twenties, in New York City and elsewhere.[9]
After Bianco had an exhibit at Leicester Galleries in London in 1919, Walter de la Mare wrote some poems to accompany her drawing which was published as Flora: A Book of Drawings by William Heinemann the same year.[3][10][11] In 1928 a children's edition of poems from William Blake's Songs of Innocence, selected and illustrated by Bianco, was published.[12][13][14]
In her adult career, she wrote and illustrated children's literature, and continued to exhibit her art. Books written and illustrated by Bianco include The Starlit Journey: A Story (1933)[15][16] and Playtime in Cherry Street (1948).[17][18] Books illustrated by Bianco include Oscar Wilde's The Birthday of the Infanta (1929),[19] Glenway Wescott's Natives of Rock (1925),[20][21] and Hazeltine and Smith's The Easter Book of Legends and Stories (1947).[22][23] She also illustrated several books by her mother, including The Skin Horse,[24] The Adventures of Andy, and The Little Wooden Doll.[25]
Bianco received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1930.[26]
