She was commissioned by Penn Publishing Company to illustrate the Comptesse de Ségur's Old French Fairy Tales. It was not long before her own health began to fail she was diagnosed with tuberculosis.
Virginia became the sole support of her family, working in art advertising agencies around Chicago.
Virginia left the Institute little more than a year later, when her mother became ill. She started high school with the intention to study art but soon migrated to the Art Institute of Chicago, where she was admitted on a complete scholarship. In 1915, Virginia and her family returned to Chicago. 1913), an event that encouraged her to focus even more on drawing. While she was living in the heartland, she won several awards at the Kansas State Fair (c. When her father died, her family moved to Missouri to live near relatives. She was an introverted child who preferred the world of imagination and drawing to social interaction with other children at school. Virginia Frances Sterrett (1900-1931) was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1900. All of the color illustrations to Old French Fairy Tales, Tanglewood Tales, and The Arabian Nights are presented here.Ĭoming Eventually: The black and white illustrations, and board drawings.
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