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Experience the charm and magic of Maria Kirk's illustrations. With over 50 books to her name, Kirk's artwork has brought joy and wonder to countless children. Discover her illustrations for classics such as 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and 'The Secret Garden'.
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Experience the charm and magic of Maria Kirk's illustrations. With over 50 books to her name, Kirk's artwork has brought joy and wonder to countless children. Discover her illustrations for classics such as 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and 'The Secret Garden'.
This value bundle of digital downloads features the following collections by Maria Kirk (1860-1938):-
A Child's Garden of Verses (1919) - 8 images
The Children's book (1915) - 2 images
A Dog of Flanders (1909) - 7 images
Dora (1924) - 7 images
Gulliver's Travels (1918) - 8 images
The Jumble book (1920) - 6 images
Mazli (1921) - 8 images
Moufflou & Other Stories (1910) - 3 images
Pinocchio (1920) - 14 images
The Princess & the Curdie (1908) - 12 images
The Secret Garden (1911) - 4 images
The Story of Hiawatha (1910) - 12 images
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The pictures are out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use them in whatever way you’d like, including commercial use.
Maria Louise Kirk (1860-1938), usually credited as M.L. Kirk or Maria L. Kirk, was an American painter and illustrator of more than fifty books, most of them for children.
Her notable work includes illustrations for a US edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in 1904, for the first edition of 'The Secret Garden', and for several books by L.M. Montgomery and Johanna Spyri.
Born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Kirk studied art in Philadelphia at the School of Design for Women and then at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She had exhibitions around Pennsylvania and won awards in Philadelphia and Chicago.
In the 1890s, she went on to study at the Art Institute of Chicago and in 1894 won the Mary Smith Prize of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, for a portrait.
Although she was a talented artist, with so much published work, little is known about Kirk's life. She died on her 78th birthday in 1938.
In 2009, the Folio Society of London used Kirk’s illustrations for its new edition of At the Back of the North Wind.
The pictures in our collections are out of copyright in the United States, the UK, Canada, most of Europe, Australia and all countries that follow the lifetime plus 70 years rule. Read our blog post about public domain copyright rules for more information.