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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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