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American artist
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Thomas S. Handforth
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Place of birth
Tacoma
Death
19 October 1948 (aged 51 years)
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Los Angeles
Age
51 years
Residence
Los Angeles
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Thomas Scofield Handforth (1897–1948) was an American artist and etcher. He wrote and illustrated the children's picture book Mei Li based on personal experience in China and won the 1939 Caldecott Medal for illustration.
Mei Li is about a girl who escapes her traditional life in the Chinese countryside to visit a Chinese New Year fair. It has been reissued since 1938 and Thomas Handforth's magnificent drawings of China in the 1930s are still animated and compelling. He was born in Tacoma, Washington. He studied art at the University of Washington and at L'Ecole des Beaux Arts in France. He lived in various locations such as Paris, India, North Africa, Mexico and China.
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