Sketch for Dorset House project. This sketch is entitled “Afternoon Scenes” and depicts people going about their afternoon routines. Annotated, signed and dated in Gill’s hand.
Original drawing for wood engraving, “Bambino,” used as design for cover-title to G. K. Chesterton’s “Gloria in Profundis” (Gill 278), 1927. Physick 478, Gill 195.
Bettye K. Cree (Elizabeth Kirkpatrick Cree) was born March 24, 1879. She married Raymond Cree, a founder and developer of Palm Springs, but the marriage ended in divorce. Ms. Cree then maintained an art gallery in Palm Springs. She died in Pasadena on March 16, 1944.