One of the most popular collections of Cicely Mary Barker's work is now available in a handsome new edition featuring improved reproductions of the artist's work. The collection showcases Barker's detailed, lush illustrations, includes her sketches and botanical notes about each flower, and has an introduction with facts about the artist's life.
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Cicely Mary Barker was born in 1895 in Croydon, South London, and spent most of her life there. Because of ill-health she was educated at home and largely taught herself to draw and paint, encouraged by a supportive family and assisted by membership of the Croydon Art Society. She was only sixteen when she had her first work accepted for publication as a set of postcards, and from that time she devoted her career to painting. It was her Flower Fairies books that brought Cicely Mary Barker her greatest popular acclaim. Like the Pre-Raphaelite painters whom she so much admired, she believed in recreating the beauty of nature in art and in drawing from life. Her plants and flowers were observed with complete botanical accuracy and in the fairies themselves she captured perfectly the unselfconscious grace of children, whom she used to sketch in her sister's school.
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Showcases fanciful poems and a few botanical notes,
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This review is from: Flower Fairies of the Summer - A Celebration (Hardcover)
First published in 1925, Flower Fairies Of The Summer: A Celebration reprints a true children's classic written and illustrated by Cicley Mary Barker. Featuring the gorgeous full-color flower fairy illustrations from both past and present editions of this lovely and enduringly popular work, Flower Fairies Of The Summer showcases fanciful poems and a few botanical notes concerning each flower, adding variety add to the timeless illustrations which combine to make for an enthralling visual cornucopia of wonder.
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Flower Fairies of the Winter was compiled from the existing seven books in 1985. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Woody Nightshade, Bird's-foot Trefoil, Cicely Mary Barker New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Flower Fairies of the Winter was compiled from the existing seven books in 1985. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Woody Nightshade, Bird's-foot Trefoil, Cicely Mary Barker New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Flower Fairies by Cicely Mary Barker on 4 pages
- Flower Fairies : The Little Collection by Cicely Mary Barker in Front Matter, page 14, and page 53
- Flower Fairies of the Summer (Flower Fairies Collection) by Cicely Mary Barker in Front Matter, and page 14
- Flower Fairies of the Spring by Cicely Mary Barker on page 53
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