Pratt, Mildred Claire, 1921-1995

found: Pratt, V.W. Viola Whitney Pratt, 1990:t.p. (Mildred Claire Pratt) Can. CIP (Pratt, Mildred Claire, 1921-)

found: Wikipedia, November 7, 2017(Claire Pratt; Mildred Claire Pratt (18 March 1921--5 April 1995) was a Canadian artist, poet and editor who published as Claire Pratt; she was born in Toronto, the only daughter of Viola Whitney, an editor of the magazine World Friends, and poet E. J. Pratt; she received degrees in English and Philosophy from Victoria College, University of Toronto; she studied international relations at Columbia University, and art at the Boston Museum of Fine Art; she was an editor for Macmillan Canada, the University of Toronto Press, and Harvard University Press, and senior editor at McClelland & Stewart from 1956-1965; she retired due to her health issues in 1964, although she continued to freelance for various publishing houses; she published Silent Ancestors in 1971; Pratt's art consisted largely of woodcuts, and there were exhibitions of her graphic art across North America and in Europe; her interest in Japanese graphics stimulated an interest in haiku; her work in this style was widely published, often with her own illustrations)