Katherine G Healey Artist and Illustrator Signed KGH

Illustration by Katherine G. Healey, signed KGH.

Katherine G. Healey
Blog post article by Mary Katherine May of Quality Music and Books.

Katherine Healey is one of the most illusive persons I have ever researched. The following, even though sparse, will add to what is known about her.

The art of Katherine G. Healy can be found in several early 20th-century books but information about her as a person is hard to find. Her drawings of fairies, children and others are both quite delightful and typical of the period.  They are of the type that bring smiles to the faces of children as well as the child still living in grown-ups.

Katherine G. Healey is listed in city directories Cambridge, Boston, Massachusetts from the 1920s through the 1940s as artist and commercial artist. 

Katherine signed her work with her initials, KGH.

I have published the Healey illlustrations and several songs found in Juvenile Music (Music Education Series), Ginn and Company, Boston, 1923 on Archive.org. This work is in the public domain. Follow the LINK to view and/or download the .jpg images.

Katherine G. Healey won the fourth prize and five dollars in the Wiggle-Wobble drawing contest offered by the Judge magazine and published in Vol. 80, No. 2057, April 2, 1921, Leslie-Judge Company, New York. 

Third Wiggle-Wobble Contest Fourth-Prize Winner is Katherine G. Healey, 1923

You will find examples of Healey's illustrations in the following:
> St. Nicholas Magazine LINK
> A Little Singing Bird by Lucy Blanchard, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1923
> First Grade Manual: A Help-Book for Teachers by Emma Miller Bolenius, Houghton Mifflin, 1923
> Chico, the Story of a Homing Pigeon by Lucy Mansfield Blanchard, Houghton Mifflin, 1922
> A Daughter of the Ozarks (cover illustration) by A.M. Haswell, Cornhill Co., 1921