{"id":498,"date":"2010-12-01T16:24:16","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T20:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/?p=498"},"modified":"2010-12-01T16:24:16","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T20:24:16","slug":"designs-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/2010\/12\/01\/designs-for-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Designs for Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/people.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/files\/2010\/12\/PB-medieval-Christmas-card-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/people.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/files\/2010\/12\/PB-medieval-Christmas-card-01-300x246.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas card by Pauline Baynes\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-499\" style=\"border:none;margin-top: 5px;margin-left:20px;margin-right:-15px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/files\/2010\/12\/PB-medieval-Christmas-card-01-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/files\/2010\/12\/PB-medieval-Christmas-card-01.jpg 912w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><strong>The talented <a href=\"http:\/\/chapin.williams.edu\/collect\/baynes.html\">Pauline Baynes<\/a><\/strong> (1922&ndash;2008), the original illustrator of the seven &ldquo;Narnia&rdquo; books by C.S. Lewis and of writings by J.R.R. Tolkien, also produced thousands of images for books by other authors, and for magazines, advertisements, and ephemera such as bookplates and greeting cards. Many examples of her work, including some of the finest graphic art of the 20th century, are held in the Chapin Library.<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate the holiday season, a selection of Christmas cards with art by Pauline Baynes is on display on the main level of <a href=\"http:\/\/library.williams.edu\/\">Sawyer Library<\/a>. These reveal some of the wide range of styles she brought to her art, to suit a particular mood or purpose: from medieval cartoons and patterning to delicate Persian miniatures, from painters of the Northern Renaissance such as Pieter Brueghel to 15th-century books of hours, from the England of Queen Victoria to the world of nature. Some of the pictures were used first as book or magazine illustrations &ndash; one card shows a scene with Father Christmas from <em>The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe<\/em> by C.S. Lewis &ndash; while others were specially commissioned.<\/p>\n<p><em>Pauline Baynes: Designs for Christmas<\/em> is on view at Sawyer Library through January 3, 2011. &ndash; <span style=\"color: #800000\">WGH<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Shown is one of the artist\u2019s personal Christmas cards, from the Chapin Library\u2019s Pauline Baynes Archive (&copy; the Williams College Oxford Programme; all rights reserved).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The talented Pauline Baynes (1922&ndash;2008), the original illustrator of the seven &ldquo;Narnia&rdquo; books by C.S. Lewis and of writings by J.R.R. Tolkien, also produced thousands of images for books by other authors, and for magazines, advertisements, and ephemera such as bookplates and greeting cards. Many examples of her work, including some of the finest graphic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12248],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibitions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}