Figure 1.--The image by Ruth Mary Hallock shows a little boy with longish bhair wearing a blue tunic suit with above the knee bloomer knickers. The drawing depicts a 1900s scene but was done by Hallock in 1940. This may have been when her last addition of "A Child's Garden of Verses" was published. We note she first illustrated the famed Steveson book in 1919. |
We know little about Ruth Mary Hallock. We have been able to find out virtually no bibliographical information. We know she illustrated illustrated children's books in the 1940s and 50sm but apparently much of her work was earlier. The forst book we habve noted that she illustrated was Wilhelmina Seegmiller's Little Rhymes for Little Readers (1903). A lot of her work appears to have been for the educational market, illustrating American primers and readers. We have noted her dreamy illustrations in Storyland--Stories in Music Appreciation (1939) and Conrad's Magic Flight (1950), on which she worked with another illustrator Kevin Royt. Some of her most charming illustrations were for an addition of Robert Lewis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses whichbshe first did in 1919. One sorce reports her as active from 1903-36. The image here shows a little boy with longish hair wearing a blue tunic suit with above the knee bloomer knickers. The drawing depicts a 1900s scene but was done by Hallock in 1940.
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