[2] Her "beautiful but heartbreaking" illustrations for John Milton's Paradise Lost were published in 1936.
[6] Petrina also illustrated editions of Norman Douglas's South Wind (1932),[7] Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part 2,[8] and the John Dryden translation of Virgil's Aeneid (1944),[9] She made some illustrations for an edition of Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist, but they were not used in the final publication.
[11] Among her quirkier projects, she illustrated a short humorous novel called Clovis by Michael Fessier (1948), about a parrot with human intelligence.
[12] Charlotte Kennedy changed her name to Carlotta when she married fellow artist John Petrina in 1921.
The Carlotta Petrina Museum and Cultural Center in Brownsville exhibits her works and other artifacts from her life, as well as hosting classes and performances.