Alice Provensen is the mother of my friend Karen. And at 91 she's as busy as ever. She's just received a lifetime achievement award given each year by the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art.
World War II actually helped her break into full-time work as an artist, Provensen says. Before that, women weren't typically hired as artists in the animation studios, but as men left to fight, Provensen landed a job as an animator at Walter Lantz (Studios), animating Woody Woodpecker cartoons.
There she also met Martin Provensen, her future husband and artistic collaborator, who had worked as a Disney animator but after joining the Navy was assigned to the Lantz studio to develop training films there.
"The Year At Maple Hill Farm," which remains one of their best-loved works, is about the farm that Karen grew up on.Read more here.
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