Tennessee Dixon's The Princess and the Peacocks Archive
Tennessee Rice Dixon, a New York City multimedia artist, developer, and children's
book artist whose work has appeared in video games, cd-roms, children's books
and magazines, exhibits, and etc. She currently teaches at The School of Visual
Arts, NYC in the area of multimedia-interactive design, theory, programming and
production of cd works. She has produced in addition to electronic formats several
unique and limited edition books: ScruTiny in the Great Round , Detached
from the Theory of Angels , and The Moment Waiting to Launch .
Her illustrated children's books include: Long Johns for a Small Chicken (2003), The
Princess and the Peacocks (1992), Heroine of the Titanic (1991), Jessica
and the Wolf (1990), and Berchick (1989). Her work appears in
several other special collection departments including: The Getty Center, The
University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Alberta, Museum of Modern Art
Library, Yale University Library, Stanford University, and University of Delaware.
The Archive for The Princess and the Peacocks includes a portfolio
of the author's, Linda Merrill and Sarah Ridley, references and suggestions,
which includes a rough draft of the story, notes, illustrations, and photographs
of James McNeill Whistler's Peacock Room. The archive also includes photo references,
color corrected proofs, paintings, sketches, sample illustrations for the publishers
approval, educational bulletins, reviews, promotional information, and a copy
of the book.
More information may be obtained at Tennessee Dixon's website
Information on the Whistler's Peacock Room or Harmony in Blue and Gold may
be obtained from the Smithsonian
Institute.
Finding Aid Tennessee Dixon's The Princess
and the Peacocks Archive
Jean E. Lowrie Collection
Frank Allen Bookplate Collection
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