Portland Public Library's Mary Peverada Remembers Ashley Bryan

Press release from Portland Public Library:

March 7, 2022

passed away on February 4 “Beautiful Blackbird,”

Ashley’s sun-soaked studio in Maine was filled with his art, toys, puppets, and more.

Ashley’s sun-soaked studio in Maine was filled with his art, toys, puppets, and more. Anne Pellowski Ashley and Mary in Ashley’s Cranberry Island art studio, 1984. The Cat’s Purr, an original drawing by Ashley Bryan hangs in the Children’s Room at the Downtown Library, Portland, Maine.

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