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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

Sir Nigel (1931)

Tells of the youth and young manhood of the commander of The White Company.

Author(s): Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

Some We Loved (1935)

A novel of manners set in depression-era Milwaukee.

Author(s): Edward Harris Heth
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

The Sound of Trumpets: Selections from Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971)

Selections from the works of the prolific nineteenth century American essayist, best know as leader of the transcendentalist movement, defined by his aunt as “a strange mixture of atheism and false independence.”

The Splendid Spur (1927)

A picaresque tale of English civil war.

Author(s): Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

The Story of Bread (1927)

This book about the history of bread baking was part of a series of books associated the the City and Country School in New York. The dust jacket is by Lois Lenski.

Author(s): Elizabeth Watson
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty
Lois Lenski

The Story of Milk and How It Came About (1927)

A brief history of milk, one of a series of books sponsored by the City and Country School in New York.

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

The Story of Textiles (1928)

A brief history of cloth, written in collaboration with the City and Country School in New York.

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

The Stream of History (1928)

A history of the world, variously in one and four volumes.

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

Synchromism and Color Principles in American Painting 1910-1930 (1965)

Catalog to an exhibition of American modernist painting.

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

Tad Sheldon, Boy Scout (1913)

Early boy scout adventures along Yaquina Bay in Oregon where the troop patrols for mariners in distress.

Author(s): John Fleming Wilson
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

Ten Brave Men (1951)

Brief biographies of ten early founders of America.

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

Ten Brave Women (1953)

Includes brief biographies of Anne Hutchinson, Abigail Adams, Dolly Madison, Narcissa Whitman, Julia Ward Howe, Susan B. Anthony, Dorothea Lynde Dix, Mary Lyon, Ida M. Tarbell and Eleanor Roosevelt.

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

Thanksgiving: Feast and Festival (1966)

A collection of stories, poems and traditions of thanksgiving from around the world.

Author(s): James Daugherty
Et al
Illustrator(s): Ralph McDonald

Their Weight in Wildcats (1936)

A collection of tales about the heroes of the American frontier taken from original sources, including Mike Fink, Daniel Boone and John Henry.

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

Thomas Jefferson: Fighter for Freedom and Human Rights (1961)

A brief biography of the author of the Declaration of Independence and second president of the United States of America. This is a later edition of The Way of an Eagle.

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

Three Comedies (1929)

This volume includes The Merchant of Venice, The Tempest and As You Like It. Some copies have color illustrations as well as black and white.

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

The Three Musketeers (1962)

The adventures of Athos, Porthos and Aramis, with their young apprentice d’Artagnan.

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

Trappers and Traders of the Far West (1951)

A history of J. J. Astor’s Pacific Fur Company, which operated in the Pacific Northwest.

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

A Treasury of Best-Loved Hymns: With Their Stories (1942)

A selection of thirty-three hymns, from The Old Rugged Cross to Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott.

Author(s): Daniel Alfred Poling
Various
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

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