A RESOURCE ABOUT WORK BY WRITERS MARION HOLLAND AND BARBARA HOLLAND; ARTIST JAMES BREWTON; AND EMILY BREWTON SCHILLING
Graphic for one of Jim's shows
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Original cover of "A Big Ball of String," written and illustrated by Marion
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"When All the World was Young," Barbara Holland's second memoir
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Jim Brewton's last passport picture
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JAMES EDWARD BREWTON (1930-1967) was an avant-garde painter and printmaker. Based in Philadelphia and Silkeborg, Denmark, Jim made a brilliant start but died at 36. Some of his artwork is here, and still-missing artworks are shown here.
The Brewton Foundation is pleased to be working with PASC, the Philadelphia Avant-Garde Studies Consortium. Click here for a talk about Jim by Dr. Michael Taylor, chief curator and deputy director for art and education at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. An essay about Jim, published April 2015 on the PASC website, is here. in 2014, with help from Brewton Foundation board members and friends, we held Jim's first solo exhibition in 43 years. The James Brewton Archive is housed at the Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania. |
Marion Holland during her college years at Swarthmore
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MARION HALL HOLLAND (1908-1989), was a children's author and illustrator. She had five children, of whom Barbara was the oldest. Readers still rave about Marion's books, including A Big Ball of String, which was the fifth 'Beginner Book' published by Random House. (The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss was the first in the series.) We're sifting through Marion's papers and posting highlights here....
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Barbara Holland, ca. 1970
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BARBARA MURRAY HOLLAND (1933-2010) wrote fiction for children and adults; as well as essays, biographies, history and humor. For a look at her books, click here. How I wish she could add a couple of chapters to her book about the U.S. presidents! For a look at her horoscopes and other writing over the years, click here. Barbara's paternal grandmother, Marie de Montalvo, wrote a novel called "Burning Witches." The prologue is here. |
Art and Honor (2012) by Emily, feeling a need for a battered old family crest.
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EMILY BREWTON SCHILLING is an editor, writer and artist who created this site, so she'll be talking about herself in the first person now....
My artwork explores the intersection of visual art and writing, and I often use people's handwriting in my pictures. To locate and preserve my father's artwork, I founded the James E. Brewton Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, in 2008. I also represent the literary rights of my mother, Barbara Holland, and my grandmother, Marion Holland. As an extension of my work with artists' estates, I'm thrilled to be working with The Modigliani Project, a nonprofit group that promotes research and scholarship on Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920). Thank you for visiting! |