biografía de Leonard Joseph WEISGARD (1916-2000)

Lugar de nacimiento: New Haven, CT

Direcciones: Danbury, CT; Denmark

Profesión: Illustrator, writer, designer, lecturer

Estudios: Pratt Inst. Art School; New School Soc. Res.; also with Alexei Brodovich.

Exposiciones: MMA; MoMA; Worcester Mus.; Waterbury Mus.; many libraries; throughout the Soviet Union. Awards: 50 Best Books of the Year, 1942-45 (prize); Caldecott Award, Am. Library Assn.; award, Am. Inst. Graphic Arts.

Comentarios: Positions: exhibs. director, Mattatuck Hist. Soc.; member, greeting card art selection, UNICEF; scenic & costume designer. Author: Water Carrier's Secret"; children's books, 1936-46. Contributor: New Yorker, American Home, Ladies Home Journal, & others. Publications: author or more than thirteen books; illustrator of over 250 books for children. Teaching: art instructor, Booth Free School.

Fuentes: WW73; WW47; articles, Horn Book Magazine

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