Mabel rollins harris artist animal paintings

It is surprising that there is not more known of the background of Mabel Rollins Harris, biographical or otherwise, considering she was one of the most admired, if not the finest, illustration artists of the Art Deco era.

What little that has been gleaned suggests that she was born in in Bradford, Massachusetts and graduated from the Lynn Classical High School, in Lynn, Massachusetts in 1913. Harris provided illustrations for many well-known calendar companies, including the Thomas D.

Murphy Company, located in Red Oak, Iowa and considered the “birth place of the art calendar”.

Mabel Rollins Harris was an illustrator who specialized in children's art.

Rolf Armstrong, considered "the father of the American pin-up," told Murphy’s art director at the time that he envied the brilliant glow and softness of her pieces. During the 1930s Harris did pin-up work for the Gertach-Barklow Calendar Company (Joliet, Illinois).

She was also known for her exquisitely rendered female nudes th