"Tomi Ungerer, Brash Illustrator for Young and Older, Dies at 87," Obituary, The New York Times, by Neil Genzlinger, Feb. 11, 2019. Tomi Ungerer, an acclaimed illustrator and author who brought a... Read full biography
"Tomi Ungerer, Brash Illustrator for Young and Older, Dies at 87," Obituary, The New York Times, by Neil Genzlinger, Feb. 11, 2019. Tomi Ungerer, an acclaimed illustrator and author who brought a scampish style to children’s books and whose wide-ranging career also took him into advertising,... Read full biography
"Tomi Ungerer, Brash Illustrator for Young and Older, Dies at 87," Obituary, The New York Times, by Neil Genzlinger, Feb. 11, 2019. Tomi Ungerer, an acclaimed illustrator and author who brought a scampish style to children’s books and whose wide-ranging career also took him into advertising, protest art and erotica, died on Friday in Cork, Ireland. He was 87. His death was announced on his website. Mr. Ungerer burst onto the children’s-book scene in 1957 with The Mellops Go Flying,”the first of... Read full biography
"Tomi Ungerer, Brash Illustrator for Young and Older, Dies at 87," Obituary, The New York Times, by Neil Genzlinger, Feb. 11, 2019. Tomi Ungerer, an acclaimed illustrator and author who brought a scampish style to children’s books and whose wide-ranging career also took him into advertising, protest art and erotica, died on Friday in Cork, Ireland. He was 87. His death was announced on his website. Mr. Ungerer burst onto the children’s-book scene in 1957 with The Mellops Go Flying,”the first of a series of books he would write and illustrate about a family of pigs prone to going on adventures and getting into predicaments. (In the first book, they build an airplane, which crashes when it runs out of fuel, and that’s only the beginning of... Read full biography
"Tomi Ungerer, Brash Illustrator for Young and Older, Dies at 87," Obituary, The New York Times, by Neil Genzlinger, Feb. 11, 2019. Tomi Ungerer, an acclaimed illustrator and author who brought a scampish style to children’s books and whose wide-ranging career also took him into advertising, protest art and erotica, died on Friday in Cork, Ireland. He was 87. His death was announced on his website. Mr. Ungerer burst onto the children’s-book scene in 1957 with The Mellops Go Flying,”the first of a series of books he would write and illustrate about a family of pigs prone to going on adventures and getting into predicaments. (In the first book, they build an airplane, which crashes when it runs out of fuel, and that’s only the beginning of the tale.). The Mellops books and others, with their quirky stories and simple but idiosyncratic drawings, stood... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (10)
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All the Art That's Fit to Print (And Some That Wasn't): Inside The New York Times Op-Ed Page
2012
Kraus, Jerelle
280 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Posters American Style
1998
Heyman, Therese Thau
192 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
Critical Vision/A Historyof Social and Political Art in the U S
1982
Von Blum, Paul
165 pages
The Image of America in Caricature & Cartoon (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Tyler, Ron
228 pages (color)
Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection