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Kenneth Grahame
John Singer Sargent
-- American painter
1912
Bodleian Library, Oxford
Charcoal
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Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932) born
in Edinburgh, he entered the Bank of England in 1879 and would become its
Secretary in 1899. In his spare time, he wrote short stories and articles
and would complete the novel "The Wind in The Willows" in 1908, set
in the idyllic English countryside. The work would established his international
reputation as a writer of children's books and has deeply influenced fantasy
literature.
Notes:
Special thanks to Arthur Saltzman,
of Costa Mesa, CA, a friend
of the JSS Gallery, for sending me this image in hard copy.
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