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James Daugherty

Author, Illustrator, Editor, Compiler

(1889 - 1974)

James Henry Daugherty was an American modernist painter, muralist, children’s book author, and illustrator. He was married to author Sonia Medvedeva Daugherty.



Bibliography

James Henry Daugherty (1975)

A short biography and a very complete bibliography of the artist-author.

Joe Magarac and His USA Citizenship Papers (1948)

Immigrant Joe Magarac makes plentiful steel for the USA.

Author(s): Irwin Shapiro
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

John Brown’s Body (1930)

An epic poem about the abolitionist and domestic terrorist.

Author(s): Stephen Vincent Benet
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

John Henry and the Double-Jointed Steam Drill (1945)

The story of a steel-driving man.

Author(s): Irwin Shapiro
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

Judy of the Whale Gates (1930)

A story of shipwreck in Alaska.

Author(s): Elizabeth Burrows
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

The Junior Classics Volume 10: Poetry, Reading Guide, Indexes (1959)

A collection of stories, tales and poems for boys and girls age six to sixteen.

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty
Et al

The Junior Classics Volume 8: Stories from History (1957)

Stories, tales and poems, ancient and modern for boys and girls from six to sixteen.

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty
Et al

King Penguin (1952)

The story of a young man who goes to sea and is marooned on an island of penguins.

Author(s): Richard H. Horne
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

The Kingdom and the Power and the Glory (1929)

Selections from the King James Version of the Old Testament.

Author(s): The Bible
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

Knickerbocker’s History of New York (1928)

A comic history of New York under the Dutch.

Author(s): Washington Irving
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

Kris and Kristina (1927)

A Christmas story starring Kris Kringle and Kristina.

Author(s): Marie Bruce
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

The Landing of the Pilgrims (1950)

Part of the Landmark series, this volume concerns the landings at Plymouth Rock.

Author(s): James Daugherty
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

The Last of the Mohicans (1957)

In this second volume in the Leatherstocking Tales, we meet Natty Bumpo and Chingachgook as they rescue two young British women.

Author(s): James Fenimore Cooper
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

Late Abstractions (2002)

A catalog of an exhibition of modernist paintings by James Daugherty, from early cubist efforts to late frank abstractions.

Author(s): William C. Agee
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address (1947)

An illustrated version of the famous address.

Author(s): Abraham Lincoln
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

A Long Way to Frisco (1951)

A nineteenth century pig drive on the west coast.

Author(s): Alfred Powers
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

The Lost Gospel (1925)

What follows on the discovery of an apocryphal gospel.

Author(s): Arthur Train
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

The Loudest Noise in the World (1954)

A prince asks his father the King for the loudest noise in the world for his birthday.

Author(s): Benjamin Elkin
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1954

The Magna Charta (1956)

The story of how the English barons brought King John to sign a charter of rights at Runnymede.

Author(s): James Daugherty
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

Man of the People (1943)

This is a serial concerning Abraham Lincoln published in a periodical called The Classmate, volume 50, numbers 6 to 11. The pictured issue is from 1934.

Author(s): James Daugherty
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

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