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Books Portrait of FreedomPictures by John
Holmgren
He was a member of the Society of Illustrators for many years and its president during World War II. He was also a member of the Artists and Writers Club and the Dutch Treat Club. He drew a number of illustrations of Freedom Village, where the family came for the summer. Some of these are reproduced here. His work has been in a number of major exhibits organized by his older daughter, Frances Holmgren Costikyan, in New York, Phoenix, Chicago, Minneapolis and Seattle. Written originally in 1975 with the title "Here Is Freedom," this book has been revised and updated in 2001, with the title "Portrait of Freedom." The author, Gail Holmgren Bickford, is the artist's younger daughter and lives in Freedom, where she is the owner of Freedom Press Associates. With a B.A. from Wellesley College, an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, she now devotes her energies to publishing family memoirs, diaries and histories, and to studying local history. Besides writing the Freedom column for the local weekly newspaper for several years, she has served on the Old Home Week Committee, the Conservation Commission, as Trustee of the Freedom Public Library, and now works with a committee of the Historical Society who are collecting information for a book about the Town of Freedom.
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This
book is a memorial to John Holmgren. It is also a tribute to the Town of Freedom,
New Hampshire, where he spent summers with his family. He was an illustrator and
worked in New York and Freedom from 1923 to 1963. His major work was magazine
and advertising illustration.|
Some of our favorite New Hampshire writers from outside our catalogue.
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