Florence Anderson Collection

 

Florence Anderson was an English artist active as a book illustrator throughout the first three decades of the 20th Century.

Her art was influenced by the British Fairy School.

 

The Florence Anderson Collection at Spirit of the Ages includes images from some of Anderson's seminal work.

 

Her first major commission appears to have been an extensive suite of colour and monotone illustrations prepared for

The Dream-Pedlar published in 1914. Anderson received further substantial commissions throughout the decade that

followed, including major suites of colour and monotone illustrations prepared for: The Travelling Companions (1915);

Little Dwarf Nose & The Magic Whistle (1916); The Black Princess and other Fairy Tales from Brazil (1916); The Cradle
Ship
(1916); The Magic Kiss (1916); My Fairyland (1916); Nutcracker and Mouse King (1916); Adventures in Magic Land and

Other Tales (1917); The Rainbow Twins (1919); Valentine and Orson: The Twin Knights of France (1919); Secrets of the

Flowers (1919); The Password to Fairyland (1920); and The Singing Fish (1922).

 

We invite you to take the time to peruse the wonderful artwork from Florence Anderson included in the Collection -

to view images from any one of her suites or paintings listed below, simply 'click' on the hyperlinks embedded within

the titles and the images.

 

 

The Illustrated Books

 

The Dream-Pedlar

16 images

The Travelling

Companions

12 images

Little Dwarf Nose and

The Magic Whistle

8 images

The Cradle Ship

4 images

 
 

 

 

The Black Princess and Other Fairy Tales from Brazil

12 images

The Magic Kiss

12 images

My Fairyland

4 images

Secrets of the Flowers

8 images

 
 

 

 

Valentine and Orson

8 images

The Rainbow Twins

13 images

The Password to Fairyland

8 images

The Singing Fish

4 images

 
 

 

 

  

 

The Paintings

 

   

So there they were

in the garden

1 image

Waiting for something

to happen

1 image

The Golden-Haired Maiden

1 image

 

 

On the perfumed high road

which leads to happiness

1 image

You are to be called Azulina

1 image

 

 

Seeing a beautiful white

rose, she stopped to

pluck it

1 image

 

 

The Mysterious Rose Garden

1 image