![]() ![]() Next came three books steeped in the Scandinavian folklore of Ingri’s childhood. The d’Aulaires published their first children’s book in 1931. Why, she asked, didn’t they create picture books for children? ![]() The head librarian of the New York Public Library’s juvenile department attended one of those. Once there, Ingri painted portraits and hosted modest dinner parties. ![]() Edgar sailed alone to New York where he earned enough by illustrating books to buy passage for his wife. “The enormous continent with all its possibilities and grandeur caught our imagination,” Edgar later recalled.Ī small payment from a bus accident provided the means. As Bohemian artists, they often talked about emigrating to America. The couple married in Norway, then moved to Paris. Ingri, the youngest of five children, traced her lineage back to the Viking kings. Edgar’s father was a noted Italian portrait painter, his mother a Parisian. Ingri Mortenson and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire met at art school in Munich in 1921. ![]()
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