The Society of Illustrators Annual of American Illustration remains the original and most comprehensive compilation of illustration on the market. Innovative, exciting work by established illustrators and newcomers makes this book the best reference source for trends in an ever-changing industry. This edition presents over 400 examples (selected from over 6000 entries) of classic solutions and novel approaches to clients’ needs for illustration that stimulates and informs the viewer. Illustration categories featured include "Editorial," "Book," "Advertising," "Institutional," and "Uncommissioned." Additionally, this year's annual features the Society's newest category for "Sequential" illustration which celebrates artwork that tells a story (i.e. comics, children’s books, and graphic novels.) Additionally, this annual notes the Gold and Silver medal award winners and profiles of the newly elected members of the Illustrators Hall of Fame: Milton Glaser, Daniel Schwartz, Jean-Leon Huens and E. Simms Campbell, along with this year's Hamilton King Award winner, Peter de Seve. In all, this annual stands as a compelling and insightful testament to the talent and personalities of illustrators past and present.

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Arts & Photography

Bossert, Jill

Graphic Design

Harper

The Society of Illustrators Annual of American Illustration remains the original and most comprehensive compilation of today's excellent illustration.Featuring innovative, exciting work by both established illustrators and newcomers, Illustrators 45 is the finest reference to up-to-date illustration trends in an ever-changing industry. With over 400 examples chosen from more than 6000 entries, Illustrators 45 showcases both classic solutions and novel approaches to client needs in an exciting and informative package. Each year a jury of professionals selects the best work in the categories of Editorial, Book, Advertising, Institutional, and Uncommissioned illustration, as well as the Society's newest category, Sequential, championing narrative illustration that tells a story (as in comics and graphic novels). Also, Illustrators 45 features brief profiles of this year's Hall of Fame recipients: Elaine Duillo (the queen of romance novel cover illustration); David Levine (the sharpest satiric cartoonist since Thomas Nast); William Henry Mauldin (Pulitzer-winning creator of the 1940's quintessential soldiers Willie and Joe); and Jack Potter (who influenced illustration both through his own impressionistic style and through his years as a dedicated arts educator.)

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History & Criticism

Santa Claus: His Life and Legend/40 Antique Postcards

Madison Square Press

Glamour, grace, and beauty epitomized John La Gatta's work and life. This book tells the extraordinary story of the artist's career and the loving partnership he shared with Florence, his beautiful wife of 58 years. As one looks at La Gatta's illustrations from the 1920s and 1930s, one cannot but feel the nostalgic tug of a time when a life of elegance and glamour was a fantasy harbored by the American masses. What was fantasy for the many, however, was reality for a few. While America was plunged into the Great Depression, La Gatta's ability to portray the well bred, the refined and the sensual, afforded him a life that reflected the characters he created for the pages of Amaerica's most popular magazines. John La Gatta's story is classically American--an immigrant's successful rise to wealth and fame by dint of his talent, ambition, some luck and extremely hard work. After the death of his mother, La Gatta left the graceful life in Naples he had known as a child for the rough Lower East Side of New York at the turn of the century. His early aptitude in art was recognized and nurtured so that by the time he was in his late teens he was already a working illustrator. Rising quickly in his profession, La Gatta made a fateful trip to Cleveland to join one of the burgeoning art studios. There he met Florence Olds, an art student herself, whom he wooed and wed. Although La Gatta's early advertising work often featured workingmen in overalls, he longed to illustrate women. A six month sabbatical produced a portfolio that changed his life. From then on he filled the pages of the top periodicals with elegant, sensuous women in posh settings. Though he did the occasional advertising campaign, most of his remarkable output was for the more prestigious and more highly paid editorial pages of America's most prominent magazines. The La Gattas lived lavishly, as befitted their place in society. The handsome and dapper artist was a celebrity in his own right. With showplaces on Long Island and in Woodstock, a yacht and custom-made cars, the La Gattas kept servants, belongs to prestigious clubs and traveled in style. Memorabilia from the La Gatta family archives show the couple's brilliant life in the days before the illustration profession was forever changed by photography and television. In his later life, La Gatta pursued his love of fine art and became a respected teacher. In 1984 the Society of Illustrators inducted him into their Hall of Fame. Readers who are familiar with La Gatta's work, will be in for a treat within the pages of this lavishly illustrated book. Those who have not yet had the opportunity to familiarize thmselves with his work will find themselves introduced to a world of bygone beauty and elegance.

John LA Gatta: An Artist's Life

LA Gatta, John

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Madison Square Pr

160 full color images of illustrations and paintings covering 37 years as an illustrator and painter.

Mark English

Biographies & Memoirs

English, Mark

Arts & Literature

In the hands of collage artist Fred Otnes, control merges with chance to create works of subtle, refined beauty that are designed with such assurance as to appear inevitable, works that are infused with a mystery that is both fleeting and eternal. Otnes’s gifts are powerfully displayed in the 126 full-color images reproduced in this book. Born in 1930 in Junction City, Kansas, Otnes trained at the Art Institute of Chicago, where he first encountered Cubist works by Braque and Picasso. The Modernist commitment to form without the illusion of depth captured his imagination, though it would be some time before he incorporated it into his own work. Otnes first pursued a career in traditional, realistic illustration in Chicago, and then, from 1953, in New York. While working for national magazines and advertising clients, he and his wife, Fran, built a house in Connecticut designed by architect John Johansen in the International style and furnished it in classic Modernist mode. By the mid-1960s, aware of the shrinking market in magazine illustration, Otnes made a bold change in his method of working, finally putting into play the ideas that had dictated his taste and interest for years. Using newly-honed printing, photo-transfer, and collage techniques, he pioneered a unique look: multiple images across a one-dimensional plane. This was the perfect form in which to depict some of the more complex concepts of the era such as the war in Vietnam and the Civil Rights movement. At the top of his field, Otnes received more than two hundred awards for his work. Once again sensing a change in the business in the mid-1980s, Otnes committed himself solely to creating gallery work. Fully able to explore the art of collage on his own terms, he has continued to push at the boundaries of scale and abstraction in his work, as is clear in the catalogue section of this book. The text describes his motives and motivations with each transition in his life, especially what artist Mark English describes as Otnes’s "metamorphosis" from realist illustrator to collage artist. Otnes also discusses some of the many and disparate artists and art forms he admires, from Piero della Francesco to Richard Diebenkorn to Outsider Art. He speaks of the challenges of work, the nearly fugue-like state he sometimes achieves when in the studio, and considers the never-ending difficulties that the medium itself imposes, as well as those he imposes upon himself so that he remains interested and the work continues to grow. With elements as diverse as appropriations from Renaissance and Old Master works, eighteenth-century engravings, bicycle patent diagrams, sheet music, feathers, fabric, and flowers, Otnes demonstrates in image after image a subtle, elegant world where imagery and surface interact, where tonal and textural shifts delight, and where secrets and mysteries emerge from the torn paper and scraped away paint. A world where beauty and meaning hover in wordless communication between artist and viewer.

Fred Otnes Collage Paintings

Individual Artists

Nine illustrators, chosen by the Society of Illustrators in New York, describe how they complete an assignment from start to finish. A portfolio of their past work is also provided.

Editorial Illustration: Step by Step Techniques, a Unique Guide From the Masters

Roto Vision / The Society of Illustrators

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Rotovision

Pro-Illustration, A Guide to Professional Techniques, Sponsored by the Society of Illustrators, reveals the working lives of nine masters of illustration. Each artist completes a single assignment from concept to finished art, discussing the technical steps concisely, but with an attempt to describe the mysteries of the creative process. To put the assignments into context, a extensive portfolio of the artists' past work is included. The many styles and approaches - from the most traditional to the extremely personal - provide the reader a wide variety of problem-solving stimuli. The book's striking design and clear photography reveal the illustrators' work to its best advantage. Professionals, students, and educators will find this book an inspirational source.

Pro-Illustration: A Guide to Professional Illustration Techniques (Book 2, Advertising)

The Society of Illustrators, the prestigious American Arts Organization, is exploring a children's book project. See how the top American illustrators solve their individual assignments in easy-to-follow steps. From initial sketch to finish, the illustration process is demonstrated in a series of photographs and text in a unique design layout. This incomparable behind-the-scenes look at each illustrator's studio reveals the secrets of their individual styles. A lavish portfolio section presents each illustrator's best work.

Children's Book Illustration: Step by Step Techniques, a Unique Guide from the Masters

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