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Margaret Armstrong is best known for her designs on dark blue cloth for the Henry Van Dyke books. This collection was planned as a series and is considered on of Armstrong’s most impressive achievements.
Margaret Neilson Armstrong (1867–1944) was a 19th and early 20th-century American book cover designer, illustrator, and author. She is best known for her book covers influenced by Art Nouveau. She also wrote and illustrated the first comprehensive guide to wildflowers of the American west, Field Book of Western Wild Flowers (1915).
Learn about Margaret Armstrong, a pioneering female book cover designer who created colorful and floral illustrations for over 270 books. See her works from the 1890s to 1927, including stained glass, yellow and blue, and lavender themes.
Jul 3, 2023 · Margaret Armstrong (1867-1944) was one of the most successful book design artists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She designed more than three hundred covers, mostly for Scribner during a period beginning in the 1870s that has been called the Golden Age of Book Design.
Margaret Neilson Armstrong was a 20th-century American designer, illustrator, and author. She is best known for her book covers in the Art Nouveau style. She also wrote and illustrated the first comprehensive guide to wildflowers of the American west, Field Book of Western Wild Flowers (1915).
Feb 15, 2020 · Spring Blossoms: Margaret Armstrong’s Decorated Publishers’ Bindings, Watson Library’s first online exhibition, presents a selection of books with covers designed by Armstrong from the 1890s to 1913. The exhibit highlights four themes: designs that invoke the patterns of stained glass, the lavender series of publications by Myrtle Reed ...
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Margaret Armstrong’s love of nature was often reflected in her book cover designs using copious flower, vine, and plant themes as shown in this selection of bindings. In addition to her work as a book cover designer, Armstrong was also an author, field collector, and botanical illustrator.
