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Helen Knipe Carpenter (December 6, 1881 – February 15, 1959) was an illustrator and writer active in the early 20th century noted for her Art Nouveau illustrations and her adaptations of stage plays to novels.[1]

Helen Knipe Carpenter
Born(1881-12-06)December 6, 1881
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
DiedFebruary 15, 1959(1959-02-15) (aged 77)
Torrington, Connecticut, US
OccupationIllustrator, writer
Years active1906–1942

Born Helen Alden Knipe on December 6, 1881 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a granddaughter of the novelist T. S. Arthur,[2] she studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under the tutelage of William Merritt Chase, Hugh Henry Brackenridge and Thomas Pollock Anshutz.[1][3]

She married writer, playwright, and director Edward Childs Carpenter on June 1, 1907 in Philadelphia[4][2] where they lived and worked for a number of years, summering in Connecticut.[5][1]

Her works span the period from the late Art Nouveau period through the 1940s.[6]


Works


Year Title
1906 Idelle Phelps, Your Health[7]
1907 Dwight Burroughs, Jack, the Giant Killer, Jr. with Elenore Plaisted Abbott
1908 Millicent Olmsted, The Land of Never Was, Being the Adventures of Great-A, Little-a, and Bouncing B with Elenore Plaisted Abbott
1909 Millicent Olmsted, The Land of Really True, Being the Everyday Life of Great-A, Little-a, and Bouncing B with Elenore Plaisted Abbott
1911 Elbridge Hosmer Sabin, The Magical Man of Mirth with Elenore Plaisted Abbott
1911 Elbridge Hosmer Sabin, Queen of the City of Mirth with Elenore Plaisted Abbott
1920 Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales with Elenore Plaisted Abbott
Year Title
1916 The Cinderella Man, A Romance of Youth (book), based on the stage play by Edward Childs Carpenter
1932 Whistling in the Dark (book), based on the stage play by Laurence Gross and Edward Childs Carpenter
1942 Shylock's Daughter (play), with Edward Childs Carpenter[8]

Carpenter died on February 15, 1959 in Litchfield, Connecticut. She and her husband Edward Childs Carpenter are interred in Town Hill Cemetery in New Hartford, Connecticut.


References


  1. Florence Nightingale Levy: American Art Annual, Volume XIV, The American Federation of Arts, Washington, D.C., 1917, https://books.google.com/books?id=t3dFAQAAMAAJ, p. 447, accessed March 3, 2018.
  2. "Just Gossip" column in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Sunday, June 2, 1907, Vol. 156, Issue no. 153, p. 8.
  3. "Society Women to Pose in Living Pictures after Old Masters, Well-Known Members of Smart Set Will Take Part in Interesting Tableaux for Benefit of Fellowship of Academy of the Fine Arts" (with photo) in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Wednesday, December 20, 1905, Vol. 153, Issue no. 173, p. 2.
  4. Albert Nelson Marquis: Who's Who in America, Volume VII, 1912–1913, A. N. Marquis & Company, Chicago, Ill., 1912, p. 335, https://books.google.com/books?id=v4MGW6mbi0QC, accessed March 3, 2018.
  5. Biographical Notes, "Carpenter, Helen (Alden) K(nipe)" in The General Fiction Magazine Index, www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/z10.htm, accessed March 3, 2018.
  6. 'Internet Speculative Fiction Database: Summary Bibliography: Helen Alden Knipe, Author Record # 141650, http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?141650, accessed March 3, 2018.
  7. , by Idelle Phelps, illustrated by Helen Alden Knipe, The Publishers Weekly, Vol. 70, No. 1803, August 18, 1906, p. 388, https://books.google.com/books?id=DMwxAQAAMAAJ, accessed March 3, 2018.
  8. The Library of Congress Copyright Office: Catalog of Copyright Entries, Published by Authority of the Acts of Congress of March 3, 1891, of June 30, 1906, and of March 4, 1909, Part 1, Group 3, Dramatic Compositions, Motion Pictures, New Series, Vol. 15, No. 1, 1942, https://archive.org/stream/catalogofcopyrig15libr#page/8/mode/2up/search/Carpenter, p. 8, accessed March 4, 2018.




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