Evaline Ness was an American commercial artist, illustrator, and author of children's books.
11 Facts About Evaline Ness
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Evaline Ness illustrated more than thirty books for young readers and wrote several of her own.
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Evaline Ness used a great variety of artistic media and methods.
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Evaline Ness had previously married one McAndrew and she married engineer Arnold A Bayard in 1959, who survived her.
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In 1938 Eliot Ness was already famous as a former United States Treasury agent.
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Back in the United States, Evaline Ness found no work in San Francisco, so returned to New York and "assignments doing fashion, advertising and editorial art".
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Evaline Ness herself wrote the Caldecott-winning Sam, Bangs and Moonshine, about a fisherman's daughter, illustrated with line and wash drawings.
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About this time, Evaline Ness did the colorful front and back covers and the maps of Prydain for the popular series by Lloyd Alexander, The Chronicles of Prydain.
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Late in life Evaline Ness experimented with cut-out coloring books such as Four Rooms From The Metropolitan Museum of Art To Cut Out and Color.
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Evaline Ness died 1986 in Kingston, New York, then a resident of Palm Beach, Florida.
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Evaline Ness was buried in Snow Cemetery located in Truro, Barnstable County Massachusetts.