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Leonard Everett Fisher (American, 1924)
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Leonard Everett Fisher
Celebrants 2007
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Leonard Everett Fisher
The ABC Exhibit: Juggler 1991
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Biography |
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1950 |
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Pulitzer Prize Painting Scholarship |
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1968 |
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Premio Grafico, Fiera Internationale di Bologna (Italy) |
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1979 |
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Medallion of the University of Southern Mississippi for "distinguished contributions to children's literature" |
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1980 |
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Christopher Medal for Book Illustration |
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1981 |
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Regina Medal of the Catholic Library Association |
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1991 |
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Kerlan Award of the University of Minnesota |
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Born in Bronx, NY. Grew up in Brooklyn. Studied with Reginald Marsh and Moses Soyer at the Art Students League. Served as a map specialist with the U.S. Army's 30th Topographic Engineers. He resumed his training after the war at Yale University's School of Art where he graduated with bachelor and master degrees in Fine Arts, the Weir Prize, the Winchester Fellowship, and a graduate teaching fellowship. In 1964 the National Park Service, Department of the Interior, incorporated illustrations from his published works in a mural in the Washington Monument, Washington, D.C. He was a delegate-at-large to the 1979 White House Conference on Library and Information Services. He has designed a number of United States postage stamps. He is Dean Emeritus of Paier College of Art, Hamden, CT, and past president of the Westport Public Library. Since 1954, he has illustrated over 260 books including 90 which he has written. |
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Collections
Butler Art Institute, Mount Holyoke College, the New Britain and Housatonic Museums, the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution, the Universities of Oregon, Southern Mississippi, and Minnesota, amoung others. |
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