This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Born in Albany, New York, Dorothy Lathrop was an illustrator,
printmaker, and woodblock carver, whose specialty was animal
subjects. She spent hours with animals that
she illustrated, learning to love their distinct characteristics.
She wrote and
illustrated many children's books including The Fairy Circus, The Little White Goat, The Snail Who Ran, and Who Goes There? In 1938, she won a Caldecott Medal for Animals of the Bible. She
also did some impressionist landscapes.
Dorothy Lathrop was the daughter of artist Ida Lathrop
and a sister of sculptor Gertrude Lathrop. She studied at the Art Student's
League in New York, with Arthur Dow at Columbia University, and Henry
McCarter at the Pennsylvania Academy.
In 1949, she was elected an
associate member of the National Academy of Design. She was also
a member of the National Association of Women Artists, the Society of
American Graphic Artists, and the Philadelphia Watercolor Club.
In 2006, the New York State Museum at Albany held a solo exhibition of
her work: "Flora, Fauna and Fantasy: The Art of Dorothy Lathrop".
Sources include:
Paul Sternberg, Art by American Women
Peter Hastings Falk, Who Was Who in American Art
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