Tasha Tudor: Children’s Author Who Cultivated a 990,000㎡ Garden
Creatrip Team
4 months ago
Tasha Tudor (1915–2008), an acclaimed American children’s author and illustrator who won the Caldecott Medal twice, created an idyllic rural life that many modern people admire. Born in Boston, she published hits and illustrated classics like The Secret Garden and A Little Princess, and her warm 19th-century–style watercolors were even used on White House Christmas cards. In her 50s she used royalties to buy roughly 990,000 square meters in rural Vermont, where she developed an 18th-century English–style garden and lived a largely self-sufficient life using 19th-century methods. An exhibition, “Still, Tasha Tudor,” featuring about 190 original works and books opens at Lotte Museum in Seoul’s Sincheon-dong on the 11th of next month and runs through March 15 next year.
