Connecticut, New York. 1928 - 2012
Fantasy animal children's book illustration
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Born 1949 East Grand Rapids, Michigan. Known for: Children's book illustration, transportation theme sculpture.
Following is the text of the 2010 induction of Chris Van Allsburg into The Illustrators Hall of Fame. If Chris Van Allsburg is the fish that got away, then I'm the angler that couldn't tell the... Read full biography
Following is the text of the 2010 induction of Chris Van Allsburg into The Illustrators Hall of Fame. If Chris Van Allsburg is the fish that got away, then I'm the angler that couldn't tell the difference between a perch and a pike. In the late 1970s, when I was art director of The New York Times... Read full biography
Following is the text of the 2010 induction of Chris Van Allsburg into The Illustrators Hall of Fame. If Chris Van Allsburg is the fish that got away, then I'm the angler that couldn't tell the difference between a perch and a pike. In the late 1970s, when I was art director of The New York Times OpEd page, Chris's wife, Lisa, brought the newly minted portfolio of her husband to my office hoping that I would assign him an illustration. The work was amazing, but it was not illustration. In fact,... Read full biography
Following is the text of the 2010 induction of Chris Van Allsburg into The Illustrators Hall of Fame. If Chris Van Allsburg is the fish that got away, then I'm the angler that couldn't tell the difference between a perch and a pike. In the late 1970s, when I was art director of The New York Times OpEd page, Chris's wife, Lisa, brought the newly minted portfolio of her husband to my office hoping that I would assign him an illustration. The work was amazing, but it was not illustration. In fact, it was mostly wood sculpture (a bit reminiscent of H.C. Westerman's surrealist wood boxes). Van Allsburg, who had graduated with an MFA degree in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1975, had already had a couple of shows at Allen... Read full biography
Following is the text of the 2010 induction of Chris Van Allsburg into The Illustrators Hall of Fame. If Chris Van Allsburg is the fish that got away, then I'm the angler that couldn't tell the difference between a perch and a pike. In the late 1970s, when I was art director of The New York Times OpEd page, Chris's wife, Lisa, brought the newly minted portfolio of her husband to my office hoping that I would assign him an illustration. The work was amazing, but it was not illustration. In fact, it was mostly wood sculpture (a bit reminiscent of H.C. Westerman's surrealist wood boxes). Van Allsburg, who had graduated with an MFA degree in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1975, had already had a couple of shows at Allen Stone Gallery in Manhattan, but an illustrator he was not. His ironic blend of real and surreal was conceptually pe... Read full biography
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Slide 1 of 3: 'It was wrapped in an apron of steam.' (Cover Illustration for The Polar Express)
'It was wrapped in an apron of steam.' (Cover Illustration for The Polar Express)
Chris Van Allsburg'It was wrapped in an apron of steam.' (Cover Illustration for The Polar Express)
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The Wreck of the Zephyr, 1981
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'On Christmas Eve, many years ago, I lay quietly in my bed.' (Illustration for The Polar Express)
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United States. 1950 - 2005
Painting
Massachusetts. Born 1958
Geometric shape arrangements, prints
Colorado. 1912 - 1996
Children's book illustration, sculpture
Pennsylvania / Japan. Born 1946
Abstract painting
New York. 1923 - 2015
Book cover illustrations
Illinois, California. 1892 - 1959
Figure, genre, portrait, illustration
New York, Kansas. 1910 - 1996
Pin-up girl illustration, paperback cover artist, commercial art
Illinois, New York, Louisiana. 1894 - 1975
Illustrator-pin-up girl
Massachusetts. 1902/03 - 1968
Illustration-female figure
Maine, Georgia, Pennsylvania. Born 1955
Modernist-real figure, genre, and portrait painting
Washington. 1889 - 1960
Figure, illustration, landscape
Pennsylvania, New York. 1912 - 1993
Color field painting, abstract sculptures, printmaking, teaching
New York / Puerto Rico, Spain. 1904 - 1992
Pulp fiction, free-lance illustration, teaching
United Kingdom. 1878 - 1950
Children's book illustration
Connecticut, Oklahoma. 1906 - 1988
Illustrator-romance genre-faces
New York. 1896 - 1964
Illustrator-female figure, genre
New York, Kansas, Connecticut, Arizona, Colorado. 1927 - 1992
Magazine and poster illustrator, portrait and landscape painter
Illinois, Florida. 1914 - 1980
Pin-up girl, illustration, landscape painting
Illinois, Michigan. 1899 - 1976
Magazine and commercial illustration
New York, Vermont. 1898 - 1980
Illustrator-action genre, marine
New York, California. 1896 - 1982
Pin-up girl illustrations
Massachusetts, California. 1904 - 1991
Children's book illustration
New York, California. 1893 - 1984
Illustration-pin-up girl, figure
New York, California, Hawaii, Michigan. 1889 - 1960
Glamour girls, pin-ups calendar illustration
California, Missouri. 1891 - 1955
Women's magazine illustrator, western painting, educator
California. 1901 - 1983
Action-frontier genre, illustrator
New York, Connecticut. 1914 - 1971
Pulp illustrator, abstraction
Connecticut, Ohio. 1926 - 2025
Nude figure-female, genre, illustrator
New York. 1904 - 1987
Illustration; Portraits; Landscapes; Western Scenes
New York, California / Hungary. 1882 - 1955
Designer, book illustrator, etcher
New York, New Jersey. 1912 - 1988
Cartoonist-droll gothic