Little Women: illustrations
Attached to the previous post... I’m pretty sure collecting illustrations to Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women will be a long and ungrateful task, :) but I’ve already got some, stored in my comp, and why not put them here?
Amy
Jo
Meg
Beth
Meg and sisters
Beth and Marmee
Amy and Laurie
Jo and the Professor
It would be great to learn your opinions. As for me, I’m in two minds. On the one hand, the pics are so nice (see Beth’s kittens, btw?), well-executed and possibly stylised to look like those charming early or middle-20th-century illustrations. On the other hand, I used to see the girls as more outstanding and less glamorous personalities. And somehow, looking at that art, I have an impression of a very well-to-do family - which is wrong… So?
Elaine Gingillat, the artist who did these, works as an illustrator of romance books. Here is her site, I took the pictures from it. I confess I never read the authors she illustrated, except Plaidy (Holt) and Benzoni. It was a great surprise to learn about the process of her working. Somehow I never imagined an artist could create a picture like that: stage one, stage two, stage three. Hmm, that’s interesting, but then I ask myself where the difference between art and exquisite craftsmanship lies. Okay, I will NOT criticize. :)) There are also portraits of her family and pets, with little stories accompanying them. The one about her cat Kitsy is touching. :)