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Raymer Society Consignment Art Auction
Lot 92:
"Spring Song" is an etching, in good condition, pencil signed "Eileen A Soper" in lower right. It measures 6.5×9.5, total dimensions are 16.75x19x.75. Eileen Alice Soper (26 March 1905, in Municipal Borough of Enfield – 18 March 1990) was an English etcher and illustrator of children’s and wildlife books. She produced a series of etchings, mainly of children playing, and illustrated books for other writers, notably for Enid Blyton and Elizabeth Gould. She also wrote and illustrated her own children’s book. Some of her illustrations of children and animals were used in a china series for children by Paragon China in the 1930s. Later in life she concentrated on writing and illustrating wildlife books. She was a founder member of the Society of Wildlife Artists (SWLA) and was elected a member of the Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers (RMS) in 1972
Condition: good condition
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Red Barn Studio Museum
212 S. Main Street, Lindsborg, Ks 67456
Phone: (785) 227-2217
email: raymer@redbarnstudio.org
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