December 2, 2019

"The First Book of Christmas Joy" by Dorothy Wilson, illustrated by Mary Ronin (1961)

MARY RONIN (1912 - 1992) was born in Sycamore, Illinois, to Jas Ronin, a horsetrainer and his wife Blanch Darling, and spent her childhood in Nebraska. After studying art at Omaha University, she arrived in New York, age twenty-five, and in June 1938 started working the advertising art department of Bloomingdale’s. From Bloomingdale’s, she moved to Young and Rubicam, where she took a position as an art director, one of the first female art directors in New York. After seven years with the advertising agency, she took a sabbatical year in France, returning to Manhattan in 1953 to freelance. Ronin worked thereafter as a book illustrator, and she is associated with a number of works published between 1959 and 1971.

"The First Book of Christmas Joy" by Dorothy Wilson, illustrated by Mary Ronin (1961)

"The First Book of Christmas Joy" by Dorothy Wilson, illustrated by Mary Ronin (1961)

"The First Book of Christmas Joy" by Dorothy Wilson, illustrated by Mary Ronin (1961)

"The First Book of Christmas Joy" by Dorothy Wilson, illustrated by Mary Ronin (1961)

"The First Book of Christmas Joy" by Dorothy Wilson, illustrated by Mary Ronin (1961)

"The First Book of Christmas Joy" by Dorothy Wilson, illustrated by Mary Ronin (1961)

"The First Book of Christmas Joy" by Dorothy Wilson, illustrated by Mary Ronin (1961)

"The First Book of Christmas Joy" by Dorothy Wilson, illustrated by Mary Ronin (1961)

"The First Book of Christmas Joy" by Dorothy Wilson, illustrated by Mary Ronin (1961)

"The First Book of Christmas Joy" by Dorothy Wilson, illustrated by Mary Ronin (1961)

"The First Book of Christmas Joy" by Dorothy Wilson, illustrated by Mary Ronin (1961)

"The First Book of Christmas Joy" by Dorothy Wilson, illustrated by Mary Ronin (1961)

"The First Book of Christmas Joy" by Dorothy Wilson, illustrated by Mary Ronin (1961)

"The First Book of Christmas Joy" by Dorothy Wilson, illustrated by Mary Ronin (1961)

"The First Book of Christmas Joy" by Dorothy Wilson, illustrated by Mary Ronin (1961)

"The First Book of Christmas Joy" by Dorothy Wilson, illustrated by Mary Ronin (1961)

"The First Book of Christmas Joy" by Dorothy Wilson, illustrated by Mary Ronin (1961)

"The First Book of Christmas Joy" by Dorothy Wilson, illustrated by Mary Ronin (1961)

"The First Book of Christmas Joy" by Dorothy Wilson, illustrated by Mary Ronin (1961)

"The First Book of Christmas Joy" by Dorothy Wilson, illustrated by Mary Ronin (1961)

"The First Book of Christmas Joy" by Dorothy Wilson, illustrated by Mary Ronin (1961)

"The First Book of Christmas Joy" by Dorothy Wilson, illustrated by Mary Ronin (1961)

"The First Book of Christmas Joy" by Dorothy Wilson, illustrated by Mary Ronin (1961)

"The First Book of Christmas Joy" by Dorothy Wilson, illustrated by Mary Ronin (1961)

"The First Book of Christmas Joy" by Dorothy Wilson, illustrated by Mary Ronin (1961)

"The First Book of Christmas Joy" by Dorothy Wilson, illustrated by Mary Ronin (1961)

"The First Book of Christmas Joy" by Dorothy Wilson, illustrated by Mary Ronin (1961)

"The First Book of Christmas Joy" by Dorothy Wilson, illustrated by Mary Ronin (1961)

"The First Book of Christmas Joy" by Dorothy Wilson, illustrated by Mary Ronin (1961)

"The First Book of Christmas Joy" by Dorothy Wilson, illustrated by Mary Ronin (1961)

"The First Book of Christmas Joy" by Dorothy Wilson, illustrated by Mary Ronin (1961)

"The First Book of Christmas Joy" by Dorothy Wilson, illustrated by Mary Ronin (1961)

"The First Book of Christmas Joy" by Dorothy Wilson, illustrated by Mary Ronin (1961)

"The First Book of Christmas Joy" by Dorothy Wilson, illustrated by Mary Ronin (1961)