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Leonard Everett Fisher

Leonard Everett Fisher (Born 1924) is active/lives in New York.  Leonard Fisher is known for Painting, children's book illustrations.

A painter and book illustrator, Leonard Everett Fisher considers himself first and foremost a painter and says: "I approached most of my illustrated picture books as a painter".

He has a publishing career spanning fifty years.  He has illustrated some 260 books for young readers, and is the author of ninety of these books.  Many of his published works have appeared in a dozen or more languages.  In addition, he designed a number of United states postage stamps including "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," and eight Bicentennial commemorative stamps.

His paintings and illustrations have been the subject of two major museum retrospectives: The New Britain Museum in 1973, and the Museum of American Illustration in 1991.

Among his many honors are the 1950 Pulitzer Prize painting scholarship, the Medallion of the University of Southern Mississippi, the National Jewish Book Award, the 1995 American Library Association's Arbuthnot Citation, and th   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2645 characters.]  Artist bio

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A painter and book illustrator, Leonard Everett Fisher considers himself first and foremost a painter and says: "I approached most of my illustrated picture books as a painter".

He has a publishing career spanning fifty years.  He has illustrated some 260 books for young readers, and is the author of ninety of these books.  Many of his published works have appeared in a dozen or more languages.  In addition, he designed a number of United states postage stamps including "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," and eight Bicentennial commemorative stamps.

His paintings and illustrations have been the subject of two major museum retrospectives: The New Britain Museum in 1973, and the Museum of American Illustration in 1991.

Among his many honors are the 1950 Pulitzer Prize painting scholarship, the Medallion of the University of Southern Mississippi, the National Jewish Book Award, the 1995 American Library Association's Arbuthnot Citation, and the Christopher Medal for illustration.

Fisher was born in New York City and credits his late parents with his first artistic and literary interests.  His father was a marine designer and contributed to numerous US Navy vessels including "USS Arizona," now a national shrine at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

During World War II, Fisher served at home and overseas with the 30th Engineer Topographic Battalion and participated in the tactical mapping of various European and Pacific invasions and battles.  Following the war, he graduated from Yale University's School of Art with a BFA (1949) and MFA degrees (1950).  There he earned the John Ferguson Weir Prize and the Winchester Traveling Fellowship.

He is a member of the Sanford Lowe Committee of the New Britain Museum and the Advisory Board of the Master of Fine Arts Program of Western Connecticut State University.

In 1998, the University of Connecticut, which maintains a significant archive of his papers and original art at the Thomas Dodd Research Center, published a full-color monograph, "Leonard Everett Fisher: A Life of Art" in recognition of his long career and body of work.

In addition to numerous museums, his work is in the the Library of the University of Oregon, the De Grummond Collection of the University of Southern Mississippi, and the Kerian Collection of the University of Minnesota.

The International Biographical Center, Cambridge, England, has included him in its Y2K compendium, "2000 Outstanding Artists and Designers of the 20th Century." He is married to the former Margery Meskin, a retired school librarian.


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