Who is Dinah? : Info & Checklist
An article by Tonie and Valmai Holt from Picture Postcard Monthly issue 410. June 2013.
We are pleased to present the first of a number of reproduced articles from PPM with the permission of Reflections of a Bygone Age. The articles are in PDF format (click on link)
In this article we return to a topic that is one of our greatest delights and, at the same time, one of our greatest frustrations. It is the identity of the talented artist of the ‘cute kid’ type of postcard whom we simply
know as ‘Dinah’.
She drew cards in the same genre as far better-known artists – like the well-documented Mabel Lucie Atwell, or the more familiar Douglas Tempest, Arnold Taylor, Madge Williams, Vera Paterson, Phyllis Cooper, Agnes Richardson, Nora Anni Birch, Kit Forres, Beatrice Mallet, ‘Ludgate’ (Gibson) or ‘Comicus’ (Harry Parlett). They all drew chubby children, usually in grown-up situations, and some of their best work (as is certainly the case with ‘Dinah’) was published during the dark days of the 1939-1945 War. …Read More (view PDF)
