Charles Copeland (illustrator)

Charles George Copeland (1858–1945) was an American book illustrator active from about 1887 until about 1940.

At a young age, Charles worked for a local painter, producing frescoed walls and ceilings in Thomaston.

His illustrations appear in Youth's Companion, a popular young people's magazine of the time.

The Copeland family spent summer seasons in Thomaston, ME, in Eda's childhood home: a large, Italianate house on 123 Main Street, built by Thomaston architect and builder James Overlock.

Admired by the community, Charles was considered a “popular, very tall, well-built man with a closely trimmed beard.

Illustration by Copeland for Clarence Hawkes ' Black Bruin (1908)
From Little Foresters.
from Wilderness Ways.
from Little Foresters.