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Hilary Knight (illustrator)

Hilary Knight (born November 1, 1926) is an American writer and artist. He is the illustrator of more than 50 books and the author of nine books. He is best known as the illustrator and co-creator of Kay Thompson's Eloise (1955) and others in the Eloise series.

Hilary Knight
Born (1926-11-01) November 1, 1926 (age 97)
Education
OccupationIllustrator
Known forIllustrator for the 1950s children's book series Eloise
Parents

Knight has illustrated for a wide variety of clients, creating artwork for magazines, children's fashion advertisements, greeting cards, record albums as well as posters and music album covers for Broadway musicals, including Gypsy, Irene (1973), Half A Sixpence, Hallelujah Baby!, and No, No, Nanette (1971).[1] He has over 100 U.S. copyrights for his illustration works.[2] An example of his artwork can be seen in the infobox for the article No, No, Nanette.

Early life and career edit

One of two sons of artist-writers Clayton Knight and Katharine Sturges Dodge, Hilary Knight was born on Long Island in Hempstead. His father illustrated aviation books, and his mother was a fashion and book illustrator. Living in Roslyn, New York, as a child, Hilary was age six when he moved to Manhattan with his family. Knight attended the City and Country School (class of 1940) for elementary and middle school and Friends Seminary for high school.[3][4]

Knight recalled:

As a child, I loved to look at a set of books that belonged to my mother. They were illustrated by Edmund Dulac in a romantic, wonderful, detailed manner. I know he has influenced my style.

After study with George Grosz and Reginald Marsh at the Art Students League, Knight labored as a ship painter while serving in the U.S. Navy from 1944 to 1946. After the Navy, he worked for one summer as an assistant designer at a theater in Ogunquit, Maine. Returning to New York, he studied at the School of Interior Design.[5] He studied architectural drafting at Delahanty Institute. He painted murals in private homes and entered the field of magazine illustration, starting with Mademoiselle in 1952, followed by House & Garden, Gourmet, McCalls, and Woman's Home Companion.[5] His work as a humorous illustrator was strongly influenced by the British cartoonist and satirist Ronald Searle.[6]

Books edit

In January, 1954, he met Kay Thompson, who was a popular singer and actress at the time. Knight was creating the cartoons and illustrations for Mademoiselle and House & Garden.[5] In 1955, he collaborated with Kay Thompson to create the whimsical black, white, and pink look of Eloise. Knight says that the image of Eloise was based on a 1930s painting by his mother Katherine Sturges Dodge.[7] The live CBS television adaptation on Playhouse 90 (1956) with Evelyn Rudie as Eloise received such negative reviews that Kay Thompson vowed never to allow another film or TV adaptation.[8][9][10]

Three book sequels followed: Eloise in Paris (1957), Eloise at Christmastime (1958) and Eloise in Moscow (1959). Thompson and Knight teamed to create another sequel, Eloise Takes a Bawth, working with children's book editor Ursula Nordstrom. That title was announced in the Harper Books for Boys and Girls fall 1964 catalog, but in the mid-1960s, Thompson removed the three Eloise sequels from print and did not allow Eloise Takes a Bawth to be published. Thompson was reported to have considered the books as for adults and was shocked to see the books in only the children's section of a bookstore.[11] It was an action that deprived her collaborator of income for decades (a situation that changed with Thompson's death in 1998).[12] In Salon, Amy Benfer speculated on Thompson's motives in "Will the real Eloise please stand up?" (June 1, 1999):[13]

Kay Thompson got sick of us. Our initial admiration—a mass consumption of all things Eloise—was viewed as imitation and she did not consider it a form of flattery. Adults and children flooded the Plaza, all insisting that they were Eloise.... I think she became jealous. So does Hilary Knight, Thompson's illustrator and collaborator.

Eloise Takes a Bawth was finally published in 2002. The book was written by Thompson and Mart Crowley with illustrations by Knight.[14] Knight recalled:

Kay and I were like parents to Eloise. We decided that we'd never make her older than six, and that we'd always keep the parents in the background. When you really study the book, you see that Eloise is somewhat wistful. And I guess my job now is to continue what Kay might have thought she was doing when she pulled the books in the first place—to protect Eloise.

For the first time in the history of the Eloise books, Knight illustrated as well wrote one of the books in the series, The 365 Day of Eloise.[6]

Knight also illustrated three of the four Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle books written by Betty McDonald.[15] Other publications with Knight illustrations include Good Housekeeping and the children's magazine Cricket. In addition to creating children's picture books—among them, in collaboration with poet Margaret Fishback, A Child's Book of Natural History (1969),[16] a revision and extension of A Child's Primer of Natural History by Oliver Herford—Knight has illustrated for other genres, such as Peg Bracken's The I Hate to Cook Book.[17] The roll call of artists Knight admires includes Ludwig Bemelmans, Joseph Hirsch, Leo Lionni, Robert Vickrey, and Garth Williams.

His 1964 book Where's Wallace?, featuring an orangutan that kept escaping from the zoo to visit different places such as a circus, museum, department store, beach etc. and who had to be located in each of the books panoramic pictures, anticipated Where's Waldo? by more than 20 years.[18][19][20]

The Algonquin Cat written by Val Schaffner with drawings by Hilary Knight is a charmingly illustrated story about a real cat that resides in the Algonquin Hotel in New York City.[21] There have been numerous cats in the hotel over the years.[22] This is a delightful addition to the numerous books with Mr. Knight's art work. Published by Delacorte Press/Eleanor Friede in 1980.

Broadway edit

Knight began creating posters for Broadway shows in 1965. He was hired by Harry Rigby, the producer of Half a Sixpence. Rigby would later say in an interview: “I can’t imagine doing a musical without Hilary.” The shows produced by Rigby were No, No, Nannette, Good News, and I Love My Wife.[6]

Shows he created the poster artwork for include: No, No, Nanette (1971), Good News (1974), Gypsy (1974), I Love My Wife (1977), Ain’t Misbehavin’ (1978), Whoopee! (1979), Mame (1983), Meet Me in St. Louis (1989), and Busker Alley (1995).[23]

Galleries edit

Over the decades, Knight maintained an apartment in midtown Manhattan, which also served as his studio and library. Here, he adds to his collection of books, sheet music, programs, and soundtrack and cast recordings. He is represented by two galleries—the Giraffics Gallery (East Hampton, New York) and Every Picture Tells a Story (Santa Monica, California).

In other media edit

The 2015 HBO documentary It's Me, Hilary: The Man Who Drew Eloise, by Lena Dunham, chronicles Knight's work on Eloise, personal life, and tumultuous relationship with Kay Thompson.[24]

Books written by Knight edit

Title Year
Hilary Knight's Mother Goose 1962
A Christmas stocking story[25] 1963
A Firefly in a Fir Tree[26] 1963
Angels & Berries & Candy Canes[27] 1963
Where's Wallace?[28] 1964
Hilary Knight's Cinderella[29] 1978
Hilary Knight's The twelve days of Christmas[30] 1981
Hilary Knight's The Owl and the pussy-cat:

based on the poem by Edward Lear[31]

1983

Works edit

  • The Circus Is Coming, 1947
  • Jeremiah Octopus (by Margaret Stone Zilboorg), 1962
  • Angels and Berries and Candy Canes, 1963
  • Christmas Stocking Story, 1963
  • Firefly in a Fir Tree, 1963
  • Christmas in a Nutshell Library, 1963
  • The Night Before Christmas, 1963
  • Where's Wallace?, 1964
  • When I Have A Little Girl, 1965
  • When I Have A Little Boy, 1967
  • Matt's Mitt, 1976
  • That Makes Me Mad, 1976
  • Hilary Knight's Cinderella, 1978
  • The Circus is Coming, 1978
  • The Algonquin Cat, 1980
  • The Twelve Days of Christmas, 1981
  • The Owl and the Pussy-Cat (by Edward Lear), 1983
  • ’’Telephone Time: A First Book of Telephone Do’s and Don’t’s’’, 1986
  • The Best Little Monkeys in the World, 1987
  • Side by Side: Poems To Read Together (verse compilation), 1988
  • The Beauty and the Beast, 1990
  • Sunday Morning, 1992
  • Happy Birthday (verse compilation), 1993
  • The Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle Treasury, 1995
  • When I Have A Little Girl/When I Have A Little Boy, 2000
  • Eloise Takes a Bawth, 2002
  • A Christmas Stocking Story, 2003
  • Eloise: The Absolutely Essential, 2005
  • Hilary Knight: Drawn from Life, 2018
  • Olive & Oliver: The Formative Years, 2019

Source:[6]

Gallery of Artwork edit

References edit

  1. ^ Rubin, Cyma. K126961. No no Nanette. . Lettering with women dancing & swimming around borders.. By Hilary Knight, author of the print: Cyma Rubin. Colored print; poster. Broadway Properties, Ltd.;. 3 Nov 77; K126961. JRG, 17 DEC 77,CCY 0091984 https://vcc.copyright.gov/browse
  2. ^ "Headings Results". cocatalog.loc.gov. Retrieved 2023-10-09.
  3. ^ "The New York Times: Lena Dunham and the 'Man Who Drew Eloise'". Friends Seminary. 2015-03-24. Retrieved 2023-10-10.
  4. ^ "Hilary Knight '40 – City and Country School". Retrieved 2023-10-10.
  5. ^ a b c "Hilary Knight - Illustration History". www.illustrationhistory.org. Retrieved 2023-10-10.
  6. ^ a b c d "Hilary Knight - Illustration History". www.illustrationhistory.org. Retrieved 2023-10-15.
  7. ^ Barnes & Noble: Meet the Writers series 2015-04-14 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 8 April 2015
  8. ^ "WCBS-TV News/New York Times New York City and Suburban Poll, November 1991". ICPSR Data Holdings. 1993-02-14. Retrieved 2023-10-10.
  9. ^ Rammelkamp, Julian S. (1970). "<i>Little Mack: Joseph B. McCullagh of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat</i> (review)". Civil War History. 16 (2): 185–186. doi:10.1353/cwh.1970.0071. ISSN 1533-6271.
  10. ^ "'ELOISE'; The 'Playhouse' Story". The New York Times. 2003-05-25. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-10-10.
  11. ^ D'Erasmo, Stacey (2002-10-06). "Little Grown-Ups Live Here". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-10-14.
  12. ^ "THE WILD, WILD WORLD OF ELOISE". Chicago Tribune. 2000-03-01. Retrieved 2023-10-14.
  13. ^ Benfer, Amy (1999-06-01). "Will the real Eloise please stand up?". Salon. Retrieved 2023-10-09.
  14. ^ "Eloise Takes a Bawth". Eloise. Retrieved 2023-10-10.
  15. ^ Laughtland, Amanda (2021-12-03). "Thank You, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle". Weeds & Wildflowers. Retrieved 2023-10-14.
  16. ^ A child's book of natural history by Margaret Fishback.
  17. ^ "The I Hate to Cook Book".
  18. ^ "1960s Books-Where's Wallace". www.kathleendeady.com. Retrieved 2023-10-15.
  19. ^ "Where's Wally?", Wikipedia, 2023-10-15, retrieved 2023-10-15
  20. ^ "U.S. Copyright Office Public Records System". publicrecords.copyright.gov. Retrieved 2023-10-16.
  21. ^ "The Algonquin Cat | Kaethe Library | TinyCat". Kaethe Library. Retrieved 2023-10-14.
  22. ^ "The Algonquin Cat - Most Important Resident | The Algonquin Hotel". Algonquin Hotel. Retrieved 2023-10-15.
  23. ^ "Harry Rigby (Producer) Playbill".
  24. ^ Documentaries, HBO. "It's Me, Hilary: The Man Who Drew Eloise". HBO.com. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
  25. ^ "U.S. Copyright Office Public Records System". publicrecords.copyright.gov. Retrieved 2023-10-16.
  26. ^ "U.S. Copyright Office Public Records System". publicrecords.copyright.gov. Retrieved 2023-10-17.
  27. ^ "WebVoyage Record View 1". cocatalog.loc.gov. Retrieved 2023-10-17.
  28. ^ "U.S. Copyright Office Public Records System". publicrecords.copyright.gov. Retrieved 2023-10-16.
  29. ^ "U.S. Copyright Office Public Records System". publicrecords.copyright.gov. Retrieved 2023-10-16.
  30. ^ "U.S. Copyright Office Public Records System". publicrecords.copyright.gov. Retrieved 2023-10-16.
  31. ^ "U.S. Copyright Office Public Records System". publicrecords.copyright.gov. Retrieved 2023-10-16.

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This article is about the writer artist For the ice hockey player see Hilary Knight ice hockey Hilary Knight born November 1 1926 is an American writer and artist He is the illustrator of more than 50 books and the author of nine books He is best known as the illustrator and co creator of Kay Thompson s Eloise 1955 and others in the Eloise series Hilary KnightBorn 1926 11 01 November 1 1926 age 97 Hempstead Long Island New York U S EducationArt Students League School of Interior DesignOccupationIllustratorKnown forIllustrator for the 1950s children s book series EloiseParentsClayton Knight father Katherine Sturges Dodge mother Knight has illustrated for a wide variety of clients creating artwork for magazines children s fashion advertisements greeting cards record albums as well as posters and music album covers for Broadway musicals including Gypsy Irene 1973 Half A Sixpence Hallelujah Baby and No No Nanette 1971 1 He has over 100 U S copyrights for his illustration works 2 An example of his artwork can be seen in the infobox for the article No No Nanette Contents 1 Early life and career 2 Books 3 Broadway 4 Galleries 5 In other media 6 Books written by Knight 7 Works 8 Gallery of Artwork 9 References 10 External linksEarly life and career editOne of two sons of artist writers Clayton Knight and Katharine Sturges Dodge Hilary Knight was born on Long Island in Hempstead His father illustrated aviation books and his mother was a fashion and book illustrator Living in Roslyn New York as a child Hilary was age six when he moved to Manhattan with his family Knight attended the City and Country School class of 1940 for elementary and middle school and Friends Seminary for high school 3 4 Knight recalled As a child I loved to look at a set of books that belonged to my mother They were illustrated by Edmund Dulac in a romantic wonderful detailed manner I know he has influenced my style After study with George Grosz and Reginald Marsh at the Art Students League Knight labored as a ship painter while serving in the U S Navy from 1944 to 1946 After the Navy he worked for one summer as an assistant designer at a theater in Ogunquit Maine Returning to New York he studied at the School of Interior Design 5 He studied architectural drafting at Delahanty Institute He painted murals in private homes and entered the field of magazine illustration starting with Mademoiselle in 1952 followed by House amp Garden Gourmet McCalls and Woman s Home Companion 5 His work as a humorous illustrator was strongly influenced by the British cartoonist and satirist Ronald Searle 6 Books editIn January 1954 he met Kay Thompson who was a popular singer and actress at the time Knight was creating the cartoons and illustrations for Mademoiselle and House amp Garden 5 In 1955 he collaborated with Kay Thompson to create the whimsical black white and pink look of Eloise Knight says that the image of Eloise was based on a 1930s painting by his mother Katherine Sturges Dodge 7 The live CBS television adaptation on Playhouse 90 1956 with Evelyn Rudie as Eloise received such negative reviews that Kay Thompson vowed never to allow another film or TV adaptation 8 9 10 Three book sequels followed Eloise in Paris 1957 Eloise at Christmastime 1958 and Eloise in Moscow 1959 Thompson and Knight teamed to create another sequel Eloise Takes a Bawth working with children s book editor Ursula Nordstrom That title was announced in the Harper Books for Boys and Girls fall 1964 catalog but in the mid 1960s Thompson removed the three Eloise sequels from print and did not allow Eloise Takes a Bawth to be published Thompson was reported to have considered the books as for adults and was shocked to see the books in only the children s section of a bookstore 11 It was an action that deprived her collaborator of income for decades a situation that changed with Thompson s death in 1998 12 In Salon Amy Benfer speculated on Thompson s motives in Will the real Eloise please stand up June 1 1999 13 Kay Thompson got sick of us Our initial admiration a mass consumption of all things Eloise was viewed as imitation and she did not consider it a form of flattery Adults and children flooded the Plaza all insisting that they were Eloise I think she became jealous So does Hilary Knight Thompson s illustrator and collaborator Eloise Takes a Bawth was finally published in 2002 The book was written by Thompson and Mart Crowley with illustrations by Knight 14 Knight recalled Kay and I were like parents to Eloise We decided that we d never make her older than six and that we d always keep the parents in the background When you really study the book you see that Eloise is somewhat wistful And I guess my job now is to continue what Kay might have thought she was doing when she pulled the books in the first place to protect Eloise For the first time in the history of the Eloise books Knight illustrated as well wrote one of the books in the series The 365 Day of Eloise 6 Knight also illustrated three of the four Mrs Piggle Wiggle books written by Betty McDonald 15 Other publications with Knight illustrations include Good Housekeeping and the children s magazine Cricket In addition to creating children s picture books among them in collaboration with poet Margaret Fishback A Child s Book of Natural History 1969 16 a revision and extension of A Child s Primer of Natural History by Oliver Herford Knight has illustrated for other genres such as Peg Bracken s The I Hate to Cook Book 17 The roll call of artists Knight admires includes Ludwig Bemelmans Joseph Hirsch Leo Lionni Robert Vickrey and Garth Williams His 1964 book Where s Wallace featuring an orangutan that kept escaping from the zoo to visit different places such as a circus museum department store beach etc and who had to be located in each of the books panoramic pictures anticipated Where s Waldo by more than 20 years 18 19 20 The Algonquin Cat written by Val Schaffner with drawings by Hilary Knight is a charmingly illustrated story about a real cat that resides in the Algonquin Hotel in New York City 21 There have been numerous cats in the hotel over the years 22 This is a delightful addition to the numerous books with Mr Knight s art work Published by Delacorte Press Eleanor Friede in 1980 Broadway editKnight began creating posters for Broadway shows in 1965 He was hired by Harry Rigby the producer of Half a Sixpence Rigby would later say in an interview I can t imagine doing a musical without Hilary The shows produced by Rigby were No No Nannette Good News and I Love My Wife 6 Shows he created the poster artwork for include No No Nanette 1971 Good News 1974 Gypsy 1974 I Love My Wife 1977 Ain t Misbehavin 1978 Whoopee 1979 Mame 1983 Meet Me in St Louis 1989 and Busker Alley 1995 23 Galleries editOver the decades Knight maintained an apartment in midtown Manhattan which also served as his studio and library Here he adds to his collection of books sheet music programs and soundtrack and cast recordings He is represented by two galleries the Giraffics Gallery East Hampton New York and Every Picture Tells a Story Santa Monica California In other media editThe 2015 HBO documentary It s Me Hilary The Man Who Drew Eloise by Lena Dunham chronicles Knight s work on Eloise personal life and tumultuous relationship with Kay Thompson 24 Books written by Knight editTitle Year Hilary Knight s Mother Goose 1962 A Christmas stocking story 25 1963 A Firefly in a Fir Tree 26 1963 Angels amp Berries amp Candy Canes 27 1963 Where s Wallace 28 1964 Hilary Knight s Cinderella 29 1978 Hilary Knight s The twelve days of Christmas 30 1981 Hilary Knight s The Owl and the pussy cat based on the poem by Edward Lear 31 1983Works editThe Circus Is Coming 1947 Jeremiah Octopus by Margaret Stone Zilboorg 1962 Angels and Berries and Candy Canes 1963 Christmas Stocking Story 1963 Firefly in a Fir Tree 1963 Christmas in a Nutshell Library 1963 The Night Before Christmas 1963 Where s Wallace 1964 When I Have A Little Girl 1965 When I Have A Little Boy 1967 Matt s Mitt 1976 That Makes Me Mad 1976 Hilary Knight s Cinderella 1978 The Circus is Coming 1978 The Algonquin Cat 1980 The Twelve Days of Christmas 1981 The Owl and the Pussy Cat by Edward Lear 1983 Telephone Time A First Book of Telephone Do s and Don t s 1986 The Best Little Monkeys in the World 1987 Side by Side Poems To Read Together verse compilation 1988 The Beauty and the Beast 1990 Sunday Morning 1992 Happy Birthday verse compilation 1993 The Mrs Piggle Wiggle Treasury 1995 When I Have A Little Girl When I Have A Little Boy 2000 Eloise Takes a Bawth 2002 A Christmas Stocking Story 2003 Eloise The Absolutely Essential 2005 Hilary Knight Drawn from Life 2018 Olive amp Oliver The Formative Years 2019 Source 6 Gallery of Artwork editReferences edit Rubin Cyma K126961 No no Nanette Lettering with women dancing amp swimming around borders By Hilary Knight author of the print Cyma Rubin Colored print poster Broadway Properties Ltd 3 Nov 77 K126961 JRG 17 DEC 77 CCY 0091984 https vcc copyright gov browse Headings Results cocatalog loc gov Retrieved 2023 10 09 The New York Times Lena Dunham and the Man Who Drew Eloise Friends Seminary 2015 03 24 Retrieved 2023 10 10 Hilary Knight 40 City and Country School Retrieved 2023 10 10 a b c Hilary Knight Illustration History www illustrationhistory org Retrieved 2023 10 10 a b c d Hilary Knight Illustration History www illustrationhistory org Retrieved 2023 10 15 Barnes amp Noble Meet the Writers series Archived 2015 04 14 at the Wayback Machine retrieved 8 April 2015 WCBS TV News New York Times New York City and Suburban Poll November 1991 ICPSR Data Holdings 1993 02 14 Retrieved 2023 10 10 Rammelkamp Julian S 1970 lt i gt Little Mack Joseph B McCullagh of the St Louis Globe Democrat lt i gt review Civil War History 16 2 185 186 doi 10 1353 cwh 1970 0071 ISSN 1533 6271 ELOISE The Playhouse Story The New York Times 2003 05 25 ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved 2023 10 10 D Erasmo Stacey 2002 10 06 Little Grown Ups Live Here The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved 2023 10 14 THE WILD WILD WORLD OF ELOISE Chicago Tribune 2000 03 01 Retrieved 2023 10 14 Benfer Amy 1999 06 01 Will the real Eloise please stand up Salon Retrieved 2023 10 09 Eloise Takes a Bawth Eloise Retrieved 2023 10 10 Laughtland Amanda 2021 12 03 Thank You Mrs Piggle Wiggle Weeds amp Wildflowers Retrieved 2023 10 14 A child s book of natural history by Margaret Fishback The I Hate to Cook Book 1960s Books Where s Wallace www kathleendeady com Retrieved 2023 10 15 Where s Wally Wikipedia 2023 10 15 retrieved 2023 10 15 U S Copyright Office Public Records System publicrecords copyright gov Retrieved 2023 10 16 The Algonquin Cat Kaethe Library TinyCat Kaethe Library Retrieved 2023 10 14 The Algonquin Cat Most Important Resident The Algonquin Hotel Algonquin Hotel Retrieved 2023 10 15 Harry Rigby Producer Playbill Documentaries HBO It s Me Hilary The Man Who Drew Eloise HBO com Retrieved 12 April 2015 U S Copyright Office Public Records System publicrecords copyright gov Retrieved 2023 10 16 U S Copyright Office Public Records System publicrecords copyright gov Retrieved 2023 10 17 WebVoyage Record View 1 cocatalog loc gov Retrieved 2023 10 17 U S Copyright Office Public Records System publicrecords copyright gov Retrieved 2023 10 16 U S Copyright Office Public Records System publicrecords copyright gov Retrieved 2023 10 16 U S Copyright Office Public Records System publicrecords copyright gov Retrieved 2023 10 16 U S Copyright Office Public Records System publicrecords copyright gov Retrieved 2023 10 16 External links editOfficial website nbsp Meet the Writers Hilary Knight at Barnes amp Noble archived 2015 Eloise Website Hilary Knight archived 2016 Will the real Eloise please stand up at Salon by Amy Benfer June 1 1999 Hilary Knight at Library of Congress with 86 library catalog records Hilary Knight at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database Retrieved 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