A Field Guide To Redheads
An Illustrated Celebration
Published on 6. September 2016
Book
Hardback
160 pages
978-0-7611-8573-4 (ISBN)
Description
A charming, quirky, and utterly unique gift book with more than 100 portraits of famous historical, contemporary, factual, and fictional bearers of red hair: Queen Elizabeth I, Lucille Ball, Vincent van Gogh, Erik the Red, Louis C. K., Willie Nelson, Galileo Galilei, Elton John, Henri Matise, Tom Wolfe, Wilma Flintstone, David Bowie, Anne of Green Gables, Mario Batali, Sylvia Plath, Yosemith Sam, and many more. Includes brief biographical notes and redheaded related themes (freckles, sunburn), facts (redheads are more likely to be left handed because of recessive traits), patterns (a redheaded rainbow, strands of red hair), recipes (Rob Roy cocktail, ginger carrot soup), and other playful and enchanting oddments.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Illustrations
Full-color illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 178 mm
Width: 127 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7611-8573-4 (9780761185734)
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Person
Elizabeth Graeber is an up-and-coming artist and illustrator-and a proud redhead-who has been named an artist to watch by Refinery29 and Teen Vogue. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The Boston Globe, among others. Elizabeth collaborated with Orr Shtuhl on the charming An Illustrated Guide to Cocktails and she has created commissioned pieces for Alice + Olivia, The U.S. Postal Service, Warby Parker, Shinola, Quirk Hotel, and more. She lives in Washington, D.C. with her dog, Chickpea.