Happy New Year, illustration by Frances Brundage, 1910
The two postcards shared this week feature reproductions of Vintage cards printed by Laughing Elephant, a small local company. The card above dates from 1910 and the second card, found below, is dated 1930.
The first card provides the illustrator’s signature as Frances Brundage at the lower left, and a printed name with the date of the card, 1910, at the lower right corner on the front of the card. Frances Isabelle Lockwood Brundage was born in 1854 and died in 1937. Most of her illustrations include endearing children and can be found on postcards, valentines, paper dolls, and calendars originally published by Raphael Tuck & Sons, Samuel Gabriel Company, and Saalfield Publishing. She also illustrated children’s classics, such as, novels by Louisa May Alcott, Johanna Spyri, and Robert Louis Stevenson. A prolific artist she was still producing as many as 20 books when she was in her late sixties. Her work is said to be highly collectible.
Frances received training in art from her father, Rembrandt Lockwood, who was an architect, a wood engraver, and artist. She began her professional career as an illustration sometime between the ages of 17 and her early 20s. There are conflicting reports that her father abandoned the family when she was about 17 and that forced her to go to work as an artist. However, census records show him still living with the family up until she was in her early 20s. She married William Tyson Brundage in 1886. They had one child who died before age 2. Frances and her husband worked on some projects together.
A Very Happy New Year, illustrator unknown, 1930
This brightly colored card with a message poem is dated 1930. The illustrator is unknown, but the artwork is typical of the style in the 1930s.
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