A Tribute to Adrienne Ségur

Adrienne Ségur was a French illustrator of fairy tale books, born in 1901. Little is known about her life, and it is not known if she was related to the Comtess de Ségur (1799–1874), the famous fairy tale writer. She illustrated numerous French fairy tale volumes in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s. Her work gained a devoted following in the U.S. when Golden Books published three of her collections under the titles The Golden Book of Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen and Other Stories, and The Big Book of Cats. The illustration used in this exhibition was published in a French collection of Hans Christian Andersen tales and has never appeared in the U.S..