Lubell, Winifred

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Winifred A. Milius Lubell is an artist, designer and illustrator of children's books, who sometimes worked in collaboration with her husband, Cecil Lubell, or with other authors.

From the description of Papers, 1956-1968. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63301875

Winifred Lubell was born June 14, 1914, in New York, NY. She became an artist and illustrator of children's books, and has had her art exhibited in several major cities in the U. S. Much of her work reflects her interest in nature and naturural subjects. Biographical Source: Something About the Author, Vol. 6

From the guide to the Winifred Lubell Papers, 1956-1968, (University of Minnesota Libraries Children's Literature Research Collections [clrc])

Winifred Lubell was born June 14, 1914, in New York, NY. She became an artist and illustrator of children's books, and has had her art exhibited in several major cities in the U. S. Much of her work reflects her interest in nature and naturural subjects. Biographical Source: Something About the Author, Vol. 6.

From the description of Winifred Lubell Papers 1956-1968. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 475473460

Winifred Lubell (1914- ) is an illustrator from Wellfleet, Mass.

From the description of Winifred Lubell papers, 1933-2003. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82680748

Winifred Milius Lubell (b. 1914) was a prolific illustrator who worked primarily in the Massachusetts area. She is best known for her illustrations of a series of books by Dorothy Sterling, The Outer Lands, a natural history of Cape Cod.

Winifred Lubell was born in 1914 in New York City. She studied at the Art Students League in New York with George Grosz and other members of the League's faculty from 1933 to 1935. During the Great Depression, Lubell and her fellow students were encouraged by Grosz to go out into the city and document the plight of the homeless. In 1936 she began attending the Duncan Phillips Museum School in Washington D.C. She met and married ethnographer Cecil Lubell in 1939, with whom she shared an avid interest in mythology, psychology, linguistics and the history and visual styles of written languages. Together, they had two children David and Stephen.

After World War II Lubell began her long career as an illustrator. With her husband she created a series of children's books emphasizing natural history, animals, plants and ecosystems. Here Comes Daddy, appeared in 1945 with text and illustrations by Lubell. In 1994, Lubell published The Metamorphosis of Baubo, Myths of Woman's Sexual Energy which became an important resource for feminist scholarship. She currently resides in Wellfleet, Mass.

From the guide to the Winifred Lubell papers, 1933-2003, (Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution)

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Death 2012-01-03

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