Jolly Holiday Gift Tags by Betty Anderson A set of Card(s)

The designs featured on these gift tags are from a collection of vintage textile paintings that were discovered – undated and signed by an unknown “Betty Anderson” – in a beat-up box in an antique store. We learned that Betty was born in 1919 and lived in New York City for almost 30 years, where she worked as a commercial artist, textile designer, and children’s book illustrator. Her versatility and success afforded her an uncommonly independent lifestyle. She never married, and in 1971 moved to Brattleboro Vermont to preserve her family’s estate, an eighteenth century farmhouse known as the Poet’s House on the Goodenough Farmstead. When Betty passed away in 2006, some of her designs were inadvertently sold at auction and made their way into an antique shop, where they were rediscovered and brought back to New York City. This same work now appears on our unique line of gift products, faithfully reproduced for those who appreciate the enduring freshness of Betty’s designs.Read More