{{short description|American publisher}} {{Infobox person | name = Carol Stuart Watson | image = | caption = | birth_name = Carol Stuart | birth_date = {{Birth date|1931|8|14}} | birth_place = Washington D.C., United States | death_date = {{Death date and age|1986|01|19|1931|8|14}} | death_place = Bethesda, Maryland, United States | other_names = | known_for = | alma_mater = University of Maryland (1929-32) | occupation = Illustrator<br>Publisher | spouse = David Watson }}
'''Carol Stuart Watson''' (August 14, 1931 – January 19, 1986) was an American illustrator and publisher.<ref name="carriage" /> She was known for her illustrations of calendars, cards, children's books and scientific subjects. As a publisher, she cofounded The Georgetowner and Carriage Trade Publications.<ref name="wapo-obit">{{cite news | title=Carol Watson, 54, Area Publisher, Illustrator, Dies | newspaper=Washington Post | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1986/01/23/carol-watson-54-area-publisher-illustrator-dies/21ba39f3-fd57-4a38-aae0-8cbdcc9807bf/ | date=January 23, 1986 | accessdate=August 30, 2018}}</ref>
She lived in Rockville and died from lung cancer at the Bethesda Naval Medical Center.<ref name="wapo-obit" />
== Early life and education== Watson was born at Georgetown Hospital in Washington D.C.<ref>{{cite web | title=A Daughter's Love Story: the Legacy of Carol Stuart Watson | url=https://georgetowner.com/articles/2015/06/22/daughters-love-story-legacy-carol-stuart-watson/ | date=June 22, 2015 | accessdate=September 4, 2018}}</ref> and grew up in Bethesda, Maryland. She graduated from Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School. She went on to earn a bachelor's degree in fine arts and journalism from the University of Maryland.<ref name="wapo-obit" />
== Career == Watson started her career working at the Times-Herald. In 1954 she co-founded The Georgetowner, a community newspaper in the Georgetown area of Washington D.C.<ref name="carriage" /> In 1960 she co-founded Carriage Trade Publications with her husband, David Deshler Watson.<ref name="carriage" />
Her illustrations could be seen anywhere from the lobby's of companies like Martin Marietta, to the National Park Visitors Center in Harper’s Ferry, WV to the maps of local communities. She was most well known for her illustrations that appeared in books like ''Where’s Rachel'', ''Hurrah for Arthur! A Mount Vernon Birthday Party'', ''Flower Fables'', ''Hey, ey-ey-Lock – Adventures on the C&O Canal'' and ''Upstairs and Downstairs in a Victorian Doll House''.<ref name="carriage" />
Watson and her husband ran Carriage Trade Publications until 1979 when she took a position as an illustrator for the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.<ref name="wapo-obit" />
== Honors == Watson won the Printing Industries of America, Graphic Arts Award Competition in 1982 for her design of Bear Branches Gift Wrap for the Evergreen Press.<ref name="wapo-obit" /><ref name="carriage">{{cite web | title=1931-1986 DC / Georgetown Artist: Carol Stuart Watson | url=https://carriagetradepr.com/1931-1986-dc-georgetown-artist-carol-stuart-watson/ | date=January 31, 2011 | accessdate=September 4, 2018}}</ref>
== Bibliography == * ''Upstairs & Downstairs In A Victorian Dolls' House'' (1975)<ref>{{cite book | title=Upstairs & Downstairs In A Victorian Dolls' House | last1=Hamilton Moe | first1=Mary | last2=Stuart Watson | first2=Carol | publisher=Hamilton Cottage Press | date=1975 | language=english}}</ref> * ''Flower Fables'' (1978)<ref>{{cite book | title=Flower Fables | last1=L. Gary | first1=Charles | last2=Stuart Watson | first2=Carol | publisher=EPM Publications, Inc. | isbn=0914440241 | date=June 1, 1978 | language=english}}</ref> * ''Hurrah for Arthur! A Mount Vernon Birthday Party'' (1982)<ref>{{cite book | title=Hurrah for Arthur! A Mount Vernon Birthday Party | last1=Denton Blair | first1=Anne | last2=Stuart Watson | first2=Carol | publisher=Seven Locks Press | isbn=0932020151 | date=June 1, 1982 | language=english}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist|2}}
==External links== *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mitafdpxjk Carol Stuart Watson short documentary] *[https://carolstuartwatson.wordpress.com Collection of the work of Carol Stuart Watson]
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