Rediscovering the trailblazers of the past: artist Hilda Terry
I was browsing the internet looking for something totally unrelated when I ran across this 2006 obituary for Hilda Terry. I'd never heard of her but the more I read of her obituary, this was one amazing woman!
The New York Sun
October 18, 2006
Hilda Terry, 92, Cartoonist and Scoreboard Artist
Hilda Terry, who died Friday at 92, was a cartoonist whose strip "Teena" featured stylish adolescent girls and ran in newspapers nationally between 1941 and 1964.
As one of the few syndicated female cartoonists — "There were never more than six of us," she once said — Terry had a national reputation and used her fame to open the doors of the National Cartoonists Society to women in 1950.
In the early 1970s, Terry prioneered the new field of scoreboard animation and created six story-high images of baseball players' heads that were displayed throughout the major leagues...
...A devotee of fabulous art parties from the time she turned up in New York at 17 in the early 1930s, Terry was the doyenne of Henderson Place, an architectural island on East 86th Street, from the 1950s. There, she and her husband, the cartoonist Gregory D'Alessio, hosted the Silly Center Opera Company, an informal weekly gathering of guitarists that often attracted Andrés Segovia and Carl Sandburg, who became a close family friend....
MORE at http://www.nysun.com/obituaries/hilda-terry-92-cartoonist-and-scoreboard-artist/41781/
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