The Dollmaker
The Dollmaker
In the fall of 2023, I challenged myself to illustrate a piece of literature I loved and felt was unrepresented in the American Classics: Harriet Arnow\'s The Dollmaker. I created 6 interior drawings and a cover while trying to balance the novel’s delicate themes of hope and devastation as a rural Appalachian mother moves to Detroit and during WWII and sacrifices her aspirations in order to provide for her family
