"Kahn Family Fellowship". Ithaca, NY: The Ink Shop (ink-shop.org). 2014. Retrieved January 19, 2014. "[A] man whose life was dedicated to art, especially the arts of fine printing and the handmade book. A prolific typographer, illustrator and book designer as well as a painter, the German-born artist was a member of the Cornell community for forty years."
"Ruth Chrisman Gannett Biography". Scholastic (scholastic.com). 2014. Retrieved January 19, 2014. With linked "List of books" in print by Scholastic.
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Ruth Adelaide Chrisman (Arens), December 16, 1896 – December 8, 1979, married her second husband Lewis Stiles Gannett in 1931 and illustrated several of his books.[11] She illustrated Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck (1935). She was a runner-up for the 1946 Caldecott Medal recognizing her illustration of My Mother is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World, retold by Becky Reyher (Lothrop, 1945), OCLC225716. (Thirty years later Reyher and Gannett brought and lost an important lawsuit, Reyher v. Children's Television Workshop.) She illustrated Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (Viking, 1946), for which Bailey won the 1947 Newbery Medal. She collaborated with her step-daughter Ruth Stiles Gannett.[11]
