"Gertrude Kay (1884-1939), illustrator and landscape painter, grew up in Alliance, Ohio, where her father was a prosperous hardware merchant.
She studied illustration at the Philadelphia Museum School of Design and shops with Howard Pyle at the Drexel Institute in Philadelphia.
Along with other women students of Howard Pyle including Sarah Stilwell Weber, Elizabeth Shippen Green, Violet Oakley, Alice Barber Stephens, and Katherine Pyle, Gertrude Alice Kay found success in the male-dominated world of commercial illustration.
She produced covers and story illustrations for Ladies' Home Journal and other magazines from around 1908 through the 1920s. During this time she illustrated children's books as well." - AskArt.com
"Sarah Addington, Most prolific in the field of children's stories, gay and whimsical, she had
distinguished herself also in journalism and contemporary comment, for she loved the
swift drama of history in the making and her keen mind attacked its secrets with
unfailing zest. Always abreast of the liberal thought of her times, her career began in
spirited adherence to woman suffrage, and ended while absorbed in studies of the
Mexican revolution." - AddingtonAssoiciation.org
EditionCopyright 1923; "Published September, 1923"; 1923 on title page
PublisherLittle, Brown, and Company
Published1923
LanguageEnglish
Illustrations: Gertrude A. Kay
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Product code: Shops The Great Adventure of Mrs. Santa Claus First Edition 1923