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Yes, Thank you! What a feast you have given us today!

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Thank you William!

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Well this one made me very nostalgic. Made me think of my late maternal grandfather, the only one of my grandparents I had a connection with. Being shy I did not like being questioned by people and my other relatives were always trying to talk to me. Grandpa did not so I spent as much time as I could with him. He made his living painting houses and carpentry work but his hobby was painting pictures. When I was 10 grandpa set out to do a painting for each of his 36 grandchildren. He asked each child what they wanted. Being a typical little girl I wanted horses. My house has a dozen paintings by him starting with one he did when he was 12. And you mentioned The Old Mill and my feelings came flooding back. The fear for all the little animals in the storm but especially the bird on her nest. Thank goodness that cog was missing from the wheel. I mean the bird could leave the nest but what about her precious eggs? And the Poky Little Puppy, of course we had a copy of that, didn't everybody? Whew. My brain is going to be thinking about this stuff all day. Thanks, Martini!

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Oh, your grandfather sounds like a treasure! I’m so glad you have his paintings still.

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He was a treasure. A very nice man content with his life and the love he had for his family. Unfortunately he died when I was a senior in high school but he lives in my heart every day.

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A bit of him lives on in his 36(!!!) grandchildren too, including you.

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Great stuff, Your Glambassadoriality!

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Fascinating. I had an illustrated copy of Grimm's fairy tales that belonged to my mother.

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Thank you so much for this! As a child and much to late into my teens, I would examine fairy tale illustrations like these (and these!) for hours and hours.

That early influence probably helped create my attention to detail and subversive gloomy subtext as an artist.

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Too late 😂

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Fabulous -

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"you would be forgiven if you thought that the different artistic styles therein must belong to different illustrators"

Actually, I saw it, and so many things from my childhood suddenly came together and made sense!

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Two author-illustrators made a huge impression on me in my youth, Tasha Tudor and Holling Clancy Holling. I pored over Tasha Tudor's fairy tales for hours as a kid. I didn't see any of Holling Clancy Holling's books other than Paddle-to-the-Sea until I was an adult showing them to my child, but we both loved all of them.

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I love your art history dives. Thanks, Martini!

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