Grace drayton biography

  • Grace Drayton (née Gebbie, also known as Grace Wiederseim; October 14, 1878 – January 31, 1936) was an.
  • Grace Drayton was an illustrator of children's books, fashion pages, and magazine covers.
  • The creator of the iconic Campbell Kids was illustrator Grace Drayton (1877-1936), a highly successful artist, illustrator, and cartoonist.

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    Drayton, Grace G. (Grace Gebbie), 1877-1936

    Dates

    • Existence: 1877-10-14 - 1936-01-31

    Biography

    Grace Gebbie Drayton (1877-1936), American illustrator and cartoonist

    Found in 1 Collection or Record:

    Betsy Beinecke Shirley Collection of American Children's Literature

    Call Number: GEN MSS 764
    Abstract: Collection consists of manuscripts (correspondence and drafts of writings), illustration material (drawings in all media, photographs, book dummies, and printing blocks and plates), and publication proofs by various authors and artists including Louisa May Alcott, Alexander Anderson, Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel, Gelett Burgess, Harrison Cady, Palmer Cox, F. O. C. Darley, W. W. Denslow, Jo Mora, Peter Newell, and Symeon Shimin, as well as work produced for the McLoughlin Brothers...
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    Early 20th century illustrator Grace Drayton invented a captivating world of chubby-cheeked children, some of which have become cultural icons in America.

     

    Grace Gebbie, born in Philadelphia, PA on October 14, 1878, would become known the world over for her illustrative artwork. She enjoyed great commercial success in her lifetime which enabled her to exercise a degree of social freedom not enjoyed by most women of her era.

     

    Grace was one of seven children born to George and Mary Gebbie. She and her brother and five sisters grew up surrounded by both art and commerce. George Gebbie ran a successful business as a lithographer and publisher of fine arts, with businesses in Philadelphia and New York City. Grace was sent to study at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women. She went on to take drawing classes at the Drexel Institute. 

     

    In 1897, at age 17, she had her first commercial sale of an illustration and her career began in earnest. In 1900 she

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    by Grace G. Drayton



    Viola Grace Gebbie was born October 14, 1877, the third daughter of George Gebbie, a lithographer, who was Philadelphia's first art printer. She married Theodore E. Wiederseim, Jr., an employee of Ketterlinus Lithographic Manufacturing Company, in Philadelphia in 1904 and started signing her work "Grace Wiederseim or G G Wiederseim". She claimed to owe her "funny babies" to Wiederseim, who recognized her potential, but she divorced him in 1911. Divorce in the Catholic Church was forbidden; hers disgraced the whole family ." In 1911, Grace divorced Wiedersheim and married W. Heyward Drayton III, and started signing her work Grace Drayton. She divorced Drayton in 1923 but continued to sign her work "Grace Drayton" or "G G Drayton."

    Grace's early education was in private and church schools including the Convent of Notre Dame, Philadelphia and the Convent of Eden Hall, Torresdale, Pennsylvania. Despite her father's Presbyterianism, her mother's Catholicism prevai