Artist · 16 prints
Jessie M. King Prints
About Jessie M. King
Jessie Marion King was a Scottish illustrator and designer, born in New Kilpatrick, near Glasgow, in 1875, who died in Kirkcudbright in 1949. She studied at the Glasgow School of Art, where she later taught, and she is counted among the "Glasgow Girls", the women artists and designers of the city's turn-of-the-century style. In 1908 she married the painter and designer E. A. Taylor. The couple lived in Paris, where they ran an art school, and returned to Scotland at the start of the First World War to settle in Kirkcudbright.
King is known for fine, delicate outline drawings of fairy-tale figures, princesses and gardens. By 1899 she was designing book covers for a publisher in Berlin, and she went on to illustrate many books. She also designed textiles, wallpaper, costumes, ceramics, jewellery and silverware, including pieces for Liberty of London.
Jessie M. King prints: reproductions of the illustrations Scottish artist Jessie M. King drew for Mummy's Bedtime Story Book, published in 1929. The collection includes Golden Sun Gives Jack Frost a Golden Cloak, Santa Claus Drew Up in His Sleigh Drawn by His Reindeer, Which Was Really a Laurel Leaf Pulled by Four Goldfish, and I Play with the Trees and the Stars and the Shadows and the Moonbeams.
This selection keeps to a single book, so the plates share one style and can be hung together. The subjects are children, fairies, rabbits, Jack Frost, Santa Claus and the moon, set in gardens, woods and night skies. The drawings use King's fine outline with light, clear colour and plenty of open space.
The gentle subjects and light palette suit nurseries, children's bedrooms and playrooms, and the Santa Claus and Jack Frost plates also work as winter and Christmas pictures. All prints are museum-quality reproductions, available unframed or framed with acrylic glazing, with free shipping and import duties covered.
