Complete Set Sun-Bonnet Babies Plates by Royal Bayreuth
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The creator of The Sun-Bonnet Babies was Bertha L. Corbett who began her study of art in Minneapolis, then had a year in Philadelphia under the able instruction of Howard Pyle, the well-known illustrator, and later went to Chicago. It was while in Minneapolis that the idea of the sunbonnet babies was born. Bertha and a group of artists were together in her studio, discussing art in general, when one of the artists said "How little expression t was to a figure when the face did not show!" Bertha instantly remembered a small child that she had recently seen. The child had been busily occupied with some bit of childish play and its entire head was hidden by an enormous sun-bonnet. With this picture in mind, she answered quickly, "I do not think a face is necessary in order to make a figure expressive." She was challenged to prove her point, and taking her pen, she drew her first sun-bonnet baby. It was so enthusiastically received by her artist friends that she was readily induced to draw more, - in fact, she fell so thoroughly in love with her own baby that she devoted almost her entire time to her nursery flock. By degrees the idea grew and expanded. A book of the sun-bonnet babies was published and after that a primer and the success of the primer was unmistakable. Thousands of copies were sold and the children in whose hands they
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