Love on Paper: Handmade Greeting Cards by Ernest Dudley Chase

On view are handmade greeting card created to celebrate holidays and special occasions by Ernest Dudley Chase (1878-1966) for his beloved Clara Holland, whom he courted in the 1930s and 1940s and married in the 1950s. Most of the cards are done in watercolor and embelllished with cut-paper details and his own calligraphied poetry. Chase was a Massachusetts graphic artist, mapmaker, greeting card designer, and greeting card industry executive.

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