Tennessee Dixon's The Princess and the Peacocks Archive

Tennessee Rice Dixon, a New York City multimedia artist, developer, and children's book artist whose work has appeared in video games, cd-roms, children's books and magazines, exhibits, and etc. She currently teaches at The School of Visual Arts, NYC in the area of multimedia-interactive design, theory, programming and production of cd works. She has produced in addition to electronic formats several unique and limited edition books: ScruTiny in the Great Round , Detached from the Theory of Angels , and The Moment Waiting to Launch . Her illustrated children's books include: Long Johns for a Small Chicken (2003), The Princess and the Peacocks (1992), Heroine of the Titanic (1991), Jessica and the Wolf (1990), and Berchick (1989). Her work appears in several other special collection departments including: The Getty Center, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Alberta, Museum of Modern Art Library, Yale University Library, Stanford University, and University of Delaware.

The Archive for The Princess and the Peacocks includes a portfolio of the author's, Linda Merrill and Sarah Ridley, references and suggestions, which includes a rough draft of the story, notes, illustrations, and photographs of James McNeill Whistler's Peacock Room. The archive also includes photo references, color corrected proofs, paintings, sketches, sample illustrations for the publishers approval, educational bulletins, reviews, promotional information, and a copy of the book.

More information may be obtained at Tennessee Dixon's website

Information on the Whistler's Peacock Room or Harmony in Blue and Gold may be obtained from the Smithsonian Institute.