David Apatoff's Blog

On Monday, March 30th, 2026, David Apatoff's Blog "Illustration Art" showed many of the Provensen's illustrated diary pages. He wrote:

A VISUAL DIARY OF ILLUSTRATORS

I've previously written about my admiration for Alice and Martin Provensen, the husband and wife team responsible for some of the best illustrated children's books of the 20th century. 

Married couples sometimes keep a scrapbook or a diary but the Provensens were artists so they had fun recording the day's events in sketches and cartoons, which they passed back and forth.  The result is a charming record of what went on behind the scenes in the creation of their famous books.  

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