wilma hall fowler plate by Antonio de Guezala

Wilma Hall Fowler (Mrs. Alfred Fowler) was a member of the American Bookplate Society in 1918.

Her given address was 3606 Paseo, Kansas City, Missouri.

She exchanged bookplates.
Her particular interest was in bookplates for children.

On page 43 of The Bookplate Annual of 1921 is a bookplate of a woman standing beside a stack of books, click HERE. It mostly likely is of Wilma Hall Fowler, H. Alfred Fowler's wife. 

 "Spanish painter and printmaker Antonio Guezala y Ayrivié (1889-1956) was active in Bilbao. This ex-libris, which Guezala designed for Alfred Fowler in 1920, was exhibited the following year at the Grolier Club as part of the American Bookplate Society’s Sixth Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Bookplates. Alfred Fowler (b. 1889) was a charter member and Secretary-Treasurer of the American Bookplate Society as well as a member of the Grolier Club and the editor of several bookplate publications."  

(courtesy of the Yale Bookplate Collection, http://web.library.yale.edu/arts/news/bookplate-fowler, accessed Dec 15, 2013)

In later years, Wilma Hall Fowler helped her husband manage The Woodcut Society, The Miniature Print Society and The Society of Print Connoisseurs. Between 1942 and 1947 she wrote correspondence to the Australian wood engraver Lionel Lindsay, in regard to his commissioned prints. Her letters are held in the State Library of Victoria, in Melbourne. (According to emails from Jayson Althofer,
Bolton Library Services Officer, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Australia, Sept 17, 2011)

(Wilma Hall Fowler (Mrs. Alfred Fowler) listing courtesy of Archive. Org, The Bookplate Annual of 1922, page 53, http://archive.org/stream/22bookplateannua00fowluoft#page/52/mode/2up; Bookplate by Antonio Guezala courtesy of Archive. Org, The Bookplate Annual, page 43; detail photos of Guezala bookplate, http://archive.org/stream/21bookplateannua00fowluoft#page/42/mode/2up; bookplate closeups courtesy of Robert M. Snyder Jr. Collection, LaBudde Special Collections, UMKC Miller Nichols Library, 5100 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, M0, accessed Aug 8, 2013. Reference to artist Antonio Guezala courtesy of the Yale Bookplate Collection, http://web.library.yale.edu/arts/news/bookplate-fowler, his biography, http://www.bd-arteder.com/cgi-bin/BRSCGI?CMD=VERDOC&CONF=BRSCGI_ing.cnf&BASE=ARTI&PIECE={ARTI}&DOCR=52&SORT=APE1,APE2,NOMB,PSEU&SEPARADOR=&&IAPE=%27G%27  his paintings, http://www.bd-arteder.com/cgi-bin/BRSCGI?CMD=VERDOC&CONF=BRSCGI_ing.cnf&BASE=ARTI&PIECE={ARTI}&DOCR=52&SORT=APE1,APE2,NOMB,PSEU&SEC=OB_CAS&SEPARADOR=&&IAPE=%27G%27, accessed Dec 15, 2013)

1924/note-to-australian-wood-engravers

A Note to Australian Wood Engravers
Mr. Alfred Fowler, editor of The Woodcut Annual, 17 Board of Trade,  Kansas City, M.O., U.S.A., writes to Art in Australia:-

     "Will you permit me to ask all of your readers who are artists in wood-engraving to send me certain information about all of the blocks they make during 1924? This information should give the title of the print, the size, and any information about the states and edition as well as other interesting facts concerning each block."

    "This information will be used in an annual list of contemporary wood-cuts, which will be one of the features of The Woodcut Annual for 1925 which I am now preparing. Other features will comprise several illustrated articles about wood-engraving and reviews of all the more important woodcut books published during the year."

    "A printed form will be supplied to artists for conveniently describing their blocks, on application to the Editor of The Woodcut Annual."

(courtesy of Art in Australia Third Series No. 8 (June 1924) via email Jayson Althofer, Australia, Apr 14, 2012)