Harriet Roosevelt Richards

Harriet Roosevelt Richards (June 1867[1] – 1932) was an American illustrator, best known for her work in children's books and magazines.

Harriet Roosevelt Richards
BornJune 1867
Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Died1932 (aged 64–65)
Southwest Harbor, Maine, United States
OccupationIllustrator
ParentCharles Brinckerhoff Richards
RelativesCharles Cutler Torrey (brother-in-law)

Early life and education

Harriet Roosevelt Richards was born in Hartford, Connecticut, the daughter of Charles Brinckerhoff Richards and Agnes Edwards Goodwin Richards.[2][3] Both of her parents were born in New York; her father was a mechanical engineer and a professor at Yale University.[4] Her younger sister Marian married historian Charles Cutler Torrey, another Yale professor.[5]

H. R. Richards, frontispiece from Buddie: The Story of a Boy (1911) by Anna Chapin Ray

Richards studied art with Frank Weston Benson in Boston and Howard Pyle in Wilmington, and at the Yale School of Fine Arts.[6]

Career

Richards lived in Wilmington, Delaware from 1905 to 1912. She was a member of the Plastic Club in Philadelphia, and exhibited with the New Haven Paint and Clay Club,[7][8] and with the Washington Water Color Club.[9]

Richards's illustrations appeared in children's magazines including Wide Awake, St. Nicholas, The Youth's Companion, and Harper's Young People.[7] She illustrated books for young readers, written by authors including Elizabeth Weston Timlow,[10] Anna Chapin Ray,[11] Helen Hunt Jackson,[12] and Louisa May Alcott.[7]

Books illustrated by Richards

Personal life

Richards died at age 65, in Southwest Harbor, Maine, in 1932.[7]

References
  1. Some sources give 1850 or 1881 as Richards's birth year. 1867 is the year on her gravestone, and this matches the 1870 and 1880 federal censuses, where she is recorded in her family's Hartford household as a 2-year-old child and a 12-year-old child, respectively; via Ancestry
  2. "Charles Richards Yale Prof, is Dead". New Britain Herald. April 21, 1919. p. 13. Retrieved October 20, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. "By a New Haven Artist". New Haven Daily Morning Journal and Courier. September 30, 1903. p. 7. Retrieved October 19, 2022 – via NewspaperArchive.com.
  4. "Funeral of Prof. Charles B. Richards". Hartford Courant. April 24, 1919. p. 10. Retrieved October 20, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Married". The New York Times. June 26, 1911. p. 9. Retrieved October 20, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. Boston Public Library (1980). The Artist and the child : exhibition of children's books and original illustrations from the John D. Merriam Collection. Boston Public Library. Boston : Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston. p. 31. ISBN 978-0-89073-065-2 – via Internet Archive.
  7. "Harriet Roosevelt Richards". Delaware Art Museum. Retrieved October 19, 2022.
  8. "New Haven". American Art News. 21 (4): 8. November 4, 1922 – via Internet Archive.
  9. Mechlin, Leila (October 27, 1923). "Water Color Club Exhibition Opens". Evening Star. p. 2. Retrieved October 19, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. Timlow, Elizabeth Westyn (1895). "Cricket". Project Gutenberg. Retrieved October 19, 2022.
  11. Ray, Anna Chapin (1907). Day, her year in New York. University of California Libraries. Boston : Little, Brown.
  12. Jackson, Helen Hunt; Richards, Harriet Roosevelt (1910). Nelly's silver mine. A story of Colorado life. Boston: Little, Brown.
  13. Coolidge, Susan (1892). "Rhymes and Ballads for Girls and Boys". UF Digital Collections. Retrieved October 19, 2022.
  14. "For Boys and Girls". Book News. 13 (147): 116. November 1894 – via Internet Archive.
  15. Timlow, Elizabeth Westyn; Richards, Harriet Roosevelt (1896). Cricket at the seashore. Boston: Estes and Lauriat.
  16. Timlow, Elizabeth Westyn (1897). "Eunice and Cricket". Project Gutenberg. Retrieved October 19, 2022.
  17. Alcott, Louisa May; Richards, Harriet Roosevelt (1905). Jack and Jill. New York Public Library. Boston : Roberts Brothers.
  18. "Miss Alcott's Books". Sun-Journal. December 23, 1905. p. 27. Retrieved October 19, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  19. Jane Pentzer Myers, Stories of Enchantment (A. C. McClurg & Co., 1901); via Project Gutenberg
  20. Bailey, Alice Ward; Richards, Harriet Roosevelt (1906). Roberta and her brothers. May G. Quigley collection. Boston: Little, Brown and Co.
  21. Ray, Anna Chapin (1910). Sidney: her senior year. The Library of Congress. Boston, Little, Brown, and Company.
  22. Ray, Anna Chapin (1909). Janet at odds. University of California Libraries. Boston : Little, Brown.
  23. Ray, Anna Chapin; Richards, Harriet Roosevelt (1910). Over the quicksands. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company.
  24. Ray, Anna Chapin (1912). Buddie at Gray Buttes camp. The Library of Congress. Boston : Little, Brown.
  25. Ray, Anna Chapin (1911). Buddie, the story of a boy. The Library of Congress. Boston, Little, Brown, and company.
  26. Ray, Anna Chapin (1913). The responsibilities of Buddie. The Library of Congress. Boston, Little, Brown, and company.
  27. MacLeod, Della Campbell; Richards, Harriet Roosevelt (1913). The maiden manifest. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company – via HathiTrust.
  28. Anne Warner, Sunshine Jane (1914), via Project Gutenberg
  29. "Books to Shorten the Winter (advertisement)". The Washington Times. October 19, 1916. p. 2. Retrieved October 20, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  30. Abbott, Jane (1920). "Highacres". Project Gutenberg. Retrieved October 19, 2022.
  31. Abbott, Jane (1922). "Red-Robin". Project Gutenberg. Retrieved October 19, 2022.
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