Edmund H. Garrett Autographs, Memorabilia & Collectibles

Edmund Henry Garrett (1853-1929) is best known for illustrating the legends of King Arthur. A New York native, Garrett was an established artist of the Boston Art Club and the Copley Society of Art, debuting his first wood engraving in 1879.  During the 1880s he travelled Europe on tours with world famous impressionist Childe Hassam. In 1884 he exhibited his popular watercolors A Street in Granada and El Mirador de la Reina, Alhambra at Pennsylvania Academy. His other illustrations, such as Ballads of Romance & History by Susan Coolidge (1887) and Legends of King Arthur and His Court (1901), also toured the U.S. and France, notably at the Paris Salon. In the year that this was written, Garrett completed his illustrations for Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1895).