Pamela Bianco

Pamela Bianco (December 31, 1906 – 1994) was an English-born American painter, illustrator, and writer, who came to fame as a child prodigy in the 1910s.

Pamela Ruby Bianco was born on New Year's Eve in the Barnes district of London, the daughter of an Italian scholar and bookseller, Francesco Bianco, and an English writer, Margery Williams Bianco (author of The Velveteen Rabbit). She was educated at home, though home for the Biancos was a shifting location, as the family lived in France, Italy, and the United States when Pamela was a child. Her paintings and drawings were first exhibited as part of a children's show in Turin; then in London in 1919, and in New York City in 1921. After shows in several American cities, she returned to New York City for a more mature show when she was seventeen years old, at the Knoedler Gallery. Among her early patrons were John Galsworthy, Walter de la Mare, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Nina Wilcox Putnam, and Jo Davidson.

Bianco continued to exhibit her works into her twenties, in New York City and elsewhere. In 1928 a children's edition of poems from William Blake's Songs of Innocence, selected and illustrated by Pamela Bianco, was published.

In her adult career, Bianco wrote and illustrated children's literature, and continued to exhibit her art. Books written and illustrated by Bianco include The Starlit Journey: A Story (1933),Playtime in Cherry Street (1948), Books illustrated by Bianco include Oscar Wilde's The Birthday of the Infanta (1930),Glenway Wescott's Natives of Rock (1925), and Hazeltine and Smith, The Easter Book of Legends and Stories (1947), She also illustrated several books by her mother, including The Skin Horse, The Adventures of Andy, and The Little Wooden Doll.

Bianco received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1930.

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