Study for "The Glorious Flight - Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot"; 1983;
Winner of the Caldecott Medal, this stunningly illustrated book depicts Louis Bleriot's historic first cross-Channel flight.

Gouache on Illustration Board; 14.5" x 13.75"; Signed Lower Right; Unframed.

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Alice Rose[1] Provensen (née Twitchell; August 14, 1918[2] – April
23, 2018[3]) and Martin Provensen (July 10, 1916 – March 27, 1987) were
an American couple who illustrated more than 40 children's books
together, 19 of which they also wrote and edited.[4] According to Alice,
"we were a true collaboration. Martin and I really were one artist."[4]
Biographies

Their early lives were similar. Both were born in Chicago and both
moved to California when they were twelve.[5] Both received scholarships
to the Art Institute of Chicago, and both attended the University of
California, though at separate campuses. After college, Alice went to
work with Walter Lantz Studio, the creators of Woody Woodpecker, and
Martin took work with the Walt Disney Studio, where he collaborated on
Pinocchio, Fantasia, and Dumbo.

The pair met in 1943 when Martin, working as a creator of training
films for the American military, was assigned to the Walter Lantz
Studio. They were married in 1944 and settled in Washington, D.C., where
they worked on war-related projects. After the war they moved to New
York City where a friend helped them get their first job, illustrating
The Fireside Book of Folk Songs.[5] They illustrated several Little
Golden Books including The Color Kittens by Margaret Wise Brown (1949).
In 1952, Tony the Tiger, designed by Martin, debuted as a Kellogg's
mascot.

The Provensens were a runner-up for the 1982 Caldecott Medal as
illustrators of A Visit to William Blake's Inn by Nancy Willard (who won
the companion Newbery Medal). Two years later they won the Caldecott
for The Glorious Flight, the story of aviator Louis Blériot, the first
man to fly solo across the English Channel, which they also wrote.[6]
The annual award by U.S. professional librarians recognizes the year's
"most distinguished American picture book for children".[7] Eight of
their books were named to The New York Times annual Ten Best Illustrated
Books, including Our Animal Friends at Maple Hill Farm (1974) and An
Owl and Three Pussycats (1981).[8] The couple were collaborative
illustrators for Donald Waxman's "Pageants for Piano," a series of
pedagogical primers.[9]

The couple lived for many years at Maple Hill Farm in Dutchess
County, New York, which they portrayed in A Year at Maple Hill Farm
(1978) as well as Our Animal Friends.[10] Martin died of a heart attack
on March 27, 1987, in Staatsburg. Alice continued to live and work at
Maple Hill Farm, publishing solo work such as The Buck Stops Here: the
Presidents of the United States (1990) and My fellow Americans: a family
album (1995), two presentations of people and events from American
history (juvenile nonfiction) Punch in New York, published in 1991,
received several honors and is dedicated to her grandson, Sean.

After turning ninety, Alice moved to San Clemente, California, to
live with her daughter, Karen Mitchell, and her family. Provensen
continued working (an addition was added to her daughter's house for a
studio) well into her nineties. She died only four months before her
100th birthday.

The Fuzzy Duckling, by Jane Werner Watson (Little Golden Book 1949) br Katie the Kitten, by Kathryn & Byron Jackson br The Little Fat Policeman, by Margaret Wise Brown and Edith Thacher Hurd (Little Golden Book 1950) br Tales from the Ballet, selected by Louis Untermeyer (Golden Press, 1968) br The Mother Goose Book (Random House, 1976) br The Provensen Animal Book (Golden Press, 1952), a.k.a. The Animal Fair br A Horse and a Hound, A Goat and A Gander del Maple Hill Farm content br Town & Country br My Little Hen (Random House, 1973) ~Maple Hill Farm content br A Child's Garden of Verses (Simon and Schuster, 1951) br Leonardo da Vinci (Paper engineering by John Strejan, The Viking Press,1984) br The Golden Bible: The New Testament (Golden Press, 1953) br The Golden Treasury of Myths and Legends by Anne Terry White (Golden Press, 1959) br Aesop's Fables (Golden Press) br The Iliad and the Odyssey by Jane Werner Watson (Golden Press, 1956) br What Is a Color? br The Book of Seasons (Random House) br Golden Book of Fun and Nonsense br The Provensen Book of Fairy Tales br The Color Kittens, by Margaret Wise Brown (Little Golden Books, 1949) br Alfred Lord Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade (Golden; Paul Hamlyn, 1964) — an edition of Tennyson's 1854 poem br Our Animal Friends at Maple Hill Farm (Random House, 1974) ~Maple Hill Farm content br A Peaceable Kingdom: the Shaker abecedarius (Viking, 1978) — an edition of "Rhymes of Animals", Shaker Manifesto, July 1882 br The Year at Maple Hill Farm (Atheneum, 1978) ~Maple Hill Farm content br An Owl and Three Pussycats (Atheneum, 1981) ~Maple Hill Farm content br A Visit to William Blake's Inn: poems for innocent and experienced travelers, by Nancy Willard (Harcourt Brace, 1981) br The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot, July 25, 1909 (Viking, 1983) br The Voyage of the Ludgate Hill: travels with Robert Louis Stevenson, by Nancy Willard (Harcourt Brace, 1987) br Shaker Lane (Viking, 1987) br Come, Lord Jesus ( \\u002Fdel 1965) br Funny Bunny by Rachel Learnard (Golden) br Fireside Book of Folk Songs br Fireside Book of Love Songs br Fireside Cookbook br Roses Are Red, Are Violets Blue? (Random House) br Instruments of the Orchestra, by Jane Bunche br Ten Great Plays, by William Shakespeare (Hamlyn, 1963) br Who's in the Egg? (Golden, 1970) br A Play on Words (Random House, 1970) br The Golden Serpent by Walter Dean Myers (Viking, 1980) br Birds, beasts, and the third thing: poems by D.H. Lawrence (Viking, 1982) — an edition of Lawrence's 1925 collection br Karen's Opposites (Golden, 1963) br Karen's Curiosity (Golden, 1963) br "The Old-Fashioned Cookbook" by Jan McBride Carlton (Weathervane Books, 1975)