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Object Lessons: from children's book illustrations to a bronze-cast scooter by Subodh Gupta
December 3, 2018
Rare Books &c. at Auction This Week
Rare Drawings From the Artist Behind Eloise Are Going Up for Auction
November 30, 2018
Rediscovered Original Plaza Hotel Portrait of Eloise Comes to Auction
November 28, 2018
Hilary Knight’s Original Portrait of Eloise Hits Auction
Fiction That Made Me A Feminist
September 28, 2018
Eloise - The Brat Behind the Book
March 2, 2018
Friends and Acquaintances
October 5, 2017
Art: Eloise at the Museum
September 26, 2017
Last Minute Summer Fun for Kids and Families in NYC
August 17, 2017
Hilary Knight’s Favorite Things
March 26, 2015
June 27, 2017
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Rachel Syme for the Daily Beast. Originally published October 30, 2009
Photos by Robert Lorenzson
An unused sketch for Eloise in Paris, circa 1957. The dress design is by Christian Dior, dictated to his then assistant, Yves St. Laurent.
The artist in his studio in October 2009. On November 2, he will receive an achievement honor at the New York Public Library in a gala celebration, hosted by actor John Lithgow. He will be honored alongside Brokeback Mountain author Annie Proulx, and much to Knight's delight, he "won't have to give a speech. Though I am thrilled about it."
Hilary Knight made a painting of Eloise (which he says is "not as polished as the drawings") to hang in the Plaza Hotel lobby in 1964--at left is a watercolor sketch Knight did before committing the image to oil. Knight originally painted Eloise in 1957, but the canvas disappeared from the hotel lobby in 1960 and never returned, despite author Kay Thompson having offered a hefty reward for it.
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