Clippings from newspapers and magazines, July 21, 1969 – July 18, 1971

The Nancy Ekholm Burkert Collection was donated to the Brandywine Museum of Art by the artist in 1997 and contains her research materials in preparation for her illustration work in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The book was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, in 1972. The collection enhances understanding of Burkert’s process and identifies her resources for creating settings, costumes, and characters for the story. It includes correspondence with editors at Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, notes made by the artist, and materials gathered while on research trips to France and Germany in 1970. Included are pencil and ink sketches, tourist brochures, postcards, posters, a map, newspaper and magazine clippings. The artist’s sketches correlate to many of the final illustrations published in the book.

The collection contains a photograph of the artist’s daughter, Claire, then aged 11, who served as the model for Snow White. It provided reference for two pencil studies by the artist for the book’s cover design, which were included in the artist’s donation and are housed in the Brandywine’s fine art collection. Other drawings and plant specimens in Burkert’s collection directly correspond to the book’s illustration, And There She Made a Poisoned Apple, that was purchased by the Museum in 1982, following the exhibition of the artist’s work in 1981.