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Maurice E. Day
Born July 2, 1892, in Damariscotta, Maine
Day's childhood was spent in Maine. Later, he attended Lincoln Academy, Massachusetts Normal Art School, and Boston Museum of Fine Arts School.
Maurice Day engaged in commercial art and illustration until 1930 when he began to do serious painting. Five years later he went to the West Coast, spending most of his time in Hollywood in cartoon studios of Harman-King, Walt Disney and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, doing layouts and key color sketches.
In Maine he took over five hundred photographs, which were used as reference material in Bambi. This was the beginning of a great interest in color photography.
In 1942 he returned to Maine to stay and has since been recording his favorite sections in both water color and Kodachrome. He is essentially a product of the country and is not happy too long away from woods and fields and streams.
To him, " the world is so full of a number of things " and there are little people hiding under every toadstool. He shows his color slides with a lecture - " An Artist's Trail Notes " - which he is constantly editing, striving always toward a more and more interesting record of the cycle of the seasons as seen particularly in small and often commonplace things which have appealed to him for their beauty of color, design or imaginative quality.
Maurice Day married Beatrice Darling of Cambridge in 1917 and fathered two sons, and one grandson representing the sixth generation to live in the old family home in Damariscotta.
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Day's illustration work appeared in the following publications:
- Bergengren. Jane, Joseph and John. Atlantic Monthly. 1921.
- Beston. Firelight Fairy Book. Atlantic Monthly. 1919.
- Beston. Starlight Wonder Book. Atlantic Monthly. 1923.
- Curtin, Jeremiah. Hero-tales of Ireland. Little. 1921.
- Curtin, Jeremiah. Wonder-tales from Russia. Little. 1921.
- Jewett. Wonder Tales from Tibet. Little. 1922.
- Scudder. Book of Fables and Folk Stories. Houghton. 1919.
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Source:
Mahony, Latimer, and Folmsbee. Illustrators of Children's Books: 1744-1945. Horn Book Inc., Boston; 1947.
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