Sally A. Tate

Summer Farm and Pasture
c. 1940
Oil on Canvas
18 x 22

Sally S. Tate (1908-1991)

A painter, illustrator and teacher, Sally S. Tate was born in Sewickley, Pennsylvania.
Educated in both the U.S. and in Europe, she attended the Vesper George School of Art
in Boston, and the Parsons School of Design and Art Students League in New York
City. Her teachers included Bernard Keyes, Heinrich Moore and Jose Pillon. She also
studied in Belgium and France during the early 1930s. During the 1940s, she became a
well-known illustrator of children’s books including both educational and fictional titles,
as well as a lecturer on the subject of juvenile book illustration. Books she illustrated
include children’s books still found in households across America including The Furry
Bear (Messner 1943); The Gingerbread Man (Whitman 1944); The Woolly Lamb
(Messner 1942); Joyful Poems for Children (Bobbs-Merrill 1946); Scarlett Hill (Bobbs-
Merrill 1947); Mother Goose (Whitman 1947); Through the Gate (Silver Burdett 1945)
The Mystery at Pickle Point (Lippincott 1948); and Mystery at Robber’s Rock (Lippincott
1950). Tate also authored several titles she illustrated, including The Fluffy Bunny
(Cupples & Leon 1943). During the 1940s and 1950s, she spent her summers in
Pownal, Vermont, where she became a student and protégé of the noted landscape
painter Frank Vincent Dumond. She painted many engaging plein-air landscapes during
this period. A frequent world traveler, Sally Tate died in Italy in 1991.

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