Dorothy Lake Gregory (1893–1975) was an American artist best known for her work as a printmaker and illustrator of children's books.

She took art classes in public school and at the age of fourteen began making drawings for a New York newspaper.

[3] After her mother died when she was thirteen, she and her younger brother were raised by their father, Grant Gregory, who encouraged her interest in art.

[6] At the age of fourteen in 1908, Gregory made a drawing called "The Little Fairy" which shows her youthful style and contains surprising humor with its cobweb clock face with hands pointing to noon and its "Quick Lunch" sign suggesting that two spiders are going to join the pictured fairy in eating their lunch.

[4][13] Between 1911 and 1915, she attended the School of Fine and Applied Arts of Pratt Institute and in 1912 won a scholarship for the quality of her work.

[14][15] On leaving Pratt, Gregory began to study at the Art Students League where her instructors included the realist painter, Robert Henri.

One of her paintings in this show drew praise from a critic in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle who wrote that she struck "a note of summer in a low-horizoned canvas, with deep-toned hills, and a single artistically-built tree, prominent in the middle distance, which merges into the green foreground.

"[17] Encouraged by a fellow student to spend a summer in Provincetown, Massachusetts at the Cape Cod School of Art, she enrolled but left early, feeling disappointed with the quality of instruction and behavior of Charles Webster Hawthorne, its director.

"[18] Gregory won second prize in a contest to design recruiting posters after the United States joined the war in Europe.

"[3] Gregory married fellow student, Ross Moffett, in 1920 and the couple made their home in Provincetown.

[27] In 1929, Gregory was given a solo exhibition of etchings at Macy's flagship department store on Herald Square in Manhattan.

[31] When he reviewed the Provincetown Annual of that summer, Edward Alden Jewell of The New York Times said "The Wreck" had "special merit".

[32] In 1939, the Art Institute of Chicago showed her lithograph, "Betty and Araminta" in its seventh annual international exhibition of lithography and wood engraving (shown above, Image No.

She later explained that she was too busy raising two school-age children, caring for her aging father, who then lived with the family, and managing her household.

[43] However, in 1972 she suggested that she had greater success with her etchings and lithographs, telling her interviewer, "I seemed to have quite a lot of luck selling the things.

During her periods of summer study in Provincetown and later as a year-round resident, Gregory, like other local artists, took for her subjects the town's dunes, beaches, harbor, and village life.

[34] In 1956 a reviewer noted that her late-career paintings had subjects that varied "from the humorous 'Breezy Sunday' through the quiet 'Night for Dreaming' to the dramatic 'Eye of the Hurricane'".

[45] Included in the collection was Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Wind", in which the poet asks, "O blower, are you young or old/Are you beast of field and tree,/Or just a stronger child than me?"

In 1924, she made the illustrations for the first edition of The Box-Car Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner (Rand McNally & Company, Chicago).

[48][49][50] In Green Fairy Book, for Lang's version of The Glass Coffin by the Brothers Grimm, Gregory showed the moment when the female protagonist attempts to shoot her adversary with a pistol.

The text accompanying the illustration says, "I flew into such a rage that I drew a pistol and fired at him, but the bullet rebounded from his breast and struck my horse in the forehead."

The book, All Alone with Daddy (by Joan Fassler, Behavioral Publications, New York, 1969) is about a day that preschool-age Ellen spends with her father while her mother is out of town.

[51] Reviewers criticized the depiction of the mother as stereotypically focused on homemaking, cosmetics, and clothes, but approved the way the father was shown to accept household responsibilities.

During her long career, Gregory illustrated dozens of children's books by a variety of publishers, including more than 20 for Rand McNally.

[54] In addition to the ones that have already been mentioned, she illustrated the following books:[note 2] In 1953, Gregory began a new phase in her career when she associated with the Hallmark company to design greeting cards.

[1] On returning to the United States, they became permanent residents in Provincetown, although they often spent winter months in New York or further south.