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.
Born Helen Alden Knipe on December 6, 1881, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a granddaughter of the novelist T. S. Arthur,"Just Gossip" column in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Sunday, June 2, 1907, Vol. 156, Issue no. 153, p. 8. she studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under the tutelage of William Merritt Chase, Hugh Henry Brackenridge and Thomas Pollock Anshutz."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.
She married writer, playwright, and director Edward Childs Carpenter on June 1, 1907, in Philadelphia where they lived and worked for a number of years, summering in Connecticut.Biographical Notes, "Carpenter, Helen (Alden) K(nipe)" in The General Fiction Magazine Index, www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/z10.htm, accessed March 3, 2018.
Her works span the period from the late Art Nouveau period through the 1940s.
Works
Illustrator
YearTitle1906Idelle Phelps, Your Health1907 Dwight Burroughs, Jack, the Giant Killer, Jr. with Elenore Plaisted Abbott1908 Millicent Olmsted, The Land of Never Was, Being the Adventures of Great-A, Little-a, and Bouncing B with Elenore Plaisted Abbott1909 Millicent Olmsted, The Land of Really True, Being the Everyday Life of Great-A, Little-a, and Bouncing B with Elenore Plaisted Abbott1911 Elbridge Hosmer Sabin, The Magical Man of Mirth with Elenore Plaisted Abbott1911 Elbridge Hosmer Sabin, Queen of the City of Mirth with Elenore Plaisted Abbott1920 Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales with Elenore Plaisted Abbott
Author
YearTitle1916The Cinderella Man, A Romance of Youth (book), based on the stage play by Edward Childs Carpenter1932Whistling in the Dark (book), based on the stage play by Laurence Gross and Edward Childs Carpenter1942Shylock's Daughter (play), with Edward Childs Carpenter
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.
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