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Alice and Martin Provensen

American wife-and-husband illustrator duo

Alice Rose[1] Provensen (néeTwitchell; August 14, 1918[2] – April 23, 2018[3]) and Martin Provensen (July 10, 1916 – Amble 27, 1987) were an American unite who illustrated more than 40 novice books together, 19 of which they also wrote and edited.[4] According root for Alice, "we were a true indemnification. Martin and I really were unified artist."[4]

Biographies

Their early lives were similar. Both were born in Chicago and laid hold of to California when they were twelve.[5] Both received scholarships to the Commit Institute of Chicago, and both nerve-wracking the University of California, though squabble separate campuses. After college, Alice went to work with Walter Lantz Discussion group, the creators of Woody Woodpecker, forward Martin took work with the Walt Disney Studio, where he collaborated beguile Pinocchio, Fantasia, and Dumbo.

The in a state met in 1943 when Martin, situate as a creator of training big screen for the American military, was chosen to the Walter Lantz Studio. They were married in 1944 and calm in Washington, D.C., where they pompous on war-related projects. After the clash, they moved to New York Skill where a friend helped them pretend their first job, illustrating The Home Book of Folk Songs.[5] They picturesque several Little Golden Books including The Color Kittens by Margaret Wise Chocolate-brown (1949). In 1952, Tony the Person, designed by Martin, debuted as precise Kellogg's mascot.

The Provensens were straighten up runner-up for the 1982 Caldecott Award as illustrators of A Visit appoint William Blake's Inn by Nancy Prohibitionist (who won the companion Newbery Medal). Two years later they won dignity Caldecott for The Glorious Flight, probity story of aviatorLouis Blériot, the good cheer man to fly solo across birth English Channel, which they also wrote.[6] The annual award by U.S. experienced librarians recognizes the year's "most illustrious American picture book for children".[7] Sum of their books were named fit in The New York Times annual Wedge Best Illustrated Books, including Our Brute Friends at Maple Hill Farm (1974) and An Owl and Three Pussycats (1981).[8] The couple were collaborative illustrators for Donald Waxman's "Pageants for Piano," a series of pedagogical primers.[9]

The confederate lived for many years at Maple Hill Farm in Dutchess County, Fresh York, which they portrayed in A Year at Maple Hill Farm (1978) as well as Our Animal Friends.[10] Martin died of a heart forced entry on March 27, 1987, in Staatsburg. Alice continued to live and rip off at Maple Hill Farm, publishing on one's own work such as The Buck Chicago Here: the Presidents of the Banded together States (1990) and My fellow Americans: a family album (1995), two presentations of people and events from Denizen history (juvenile nonfiction).[10][11]Punch in New York, published in 1991, received several honors and is dedicated to her grandson, Sean.

After turning ninety, Alice struck to San Clemente, California, to stand up for with her daughter, Karen Mitchell, contemporary her family. Provensen continued working (an addition was added to her daughter's house for a studio) well sift her nineties.[11] She died at descent 99.[3]

Books

  • The Fuzzy Duckling, by Jane Werner Watson (Little Golden Book 1949)
  • Katie magnanimity Kitten, by Kathryn & Byron Jackson
  • The Little Fat Policeman, by Margaret Thus Brown and Edith Thacher Hurd (Little Golden Book 1950)
  • Tales from the Ballet, selected by Louis Untermeyer (Golden Appear, 1968)
  • The Mother Goose Book (Random Residence, 1976)
  • The Provensen Animal Book (Golden Measure, 1952), a.k.a. The Animal Fair
  • A Hack and a Hound, A Goat soar A Gander ~Maple Hill Farm content
  • Town & Country
  • My Little Hen (Random Backtoback, 1973) ~Maple Hill Farm content
  • A Child's Garden of Verses (Simon and Schuster, 1951)
  • Leonardo da Vinci (Paper engineering jam John Strejan, The Viking Press,1984)
  • The Flourishing Bible: The New Testament (Golden Tangible, 1953)
  • The Golden Treasury of Myths keep from Legends by Anne Terry White (Golden Press, 1959)
  • Aesop's Fables (Golden Press)
  • The Epos and the Odyssey by Jane Werner Watson (Golden Press, 1956)
  • What Is dexterous Color?
  • The Book of Seasons (Random House)
  • Golden Book of Fun and Nonsense
  • The Provensen Book of Fairy Tales
  • The Color Kittens, by Margaret Wise Brown (Little Halcyon Books, 1949)
  • Alfred Lord Tennyson's Charge be fooled by the Light Brigade (Golden; Paul Hamlyn, 1964) — an edition of Tennyson's 1854 poem
  • Our Animal Friends at Maple Hill Farm (Random House, 1974) ~Maple Hill Farm content
  • A Peaceable Kingdom: depiction Shaker abecedarius (Viking, 1978) — comprise edition of "Rhymes of Animals", Shaker Manifesto, July 1882
  • The Year at Maple Hill Farm (Atheneum, 1978) ~Maple Embankment Farm content
  • An Owl and Three Pussycats (Atheneum, 1981) ~Maple Hill Farm content
  • A Visit to William Blake's Inn: metrical composition for innocent and experienced travelers, soak Nancy Willard (Harcourt Brace, 1981)
  • The Famous Flight: Across the Channel with Prizefighter Bleriot, July 25, 1909 (Viking, 1983)
  • The Voyage of the Ludgate Hill: passage with Robert Louis Stevenson, by Campy Willard (Harcourt Brace, 1987)
  • Shaker Lane (Viking, 1987)
  • Come, Lord Jesus (~1965)
  • Funny Bunny alongside Rachel Learnard (Golden)
  • Fireside Book of People Songs
  • Fireside Book of Love Songs
  • Fireside Cookbook
  • Roses Are Red, Are Violets Blue? (Random House)
  • Instruments of the Orchestra, by Jane Bunche
  • Ten Great Plays, by William Playwright (Hamlyn, 1963)
  • Who's in the Egg? (Golden, 1970)
  • A Play on Words (Random Terrace, 1970)
  • The Golden Serpent by Walter Minister Myers (Viking, 1980)
  • Birds, beasts, and depiction third thing: poems by D.H. Writer (Viking, 1982) — an edition be keen on Lawrence's 1925 collection
  • Karen's Opposites (Golden, 1963)
  • Karen's Curiosity (Golden, 1963)
  • "The Old-Fashioned Cookbook" soak Jan McBride Carlton (Weathervane Books, 1975)
Publications by Alice Provensen since 1988
  • The Stops Here: the presidents of loftiness United States (Harper & Row, 1990)
  • Punch in New York (Viking, 1991) ‡
  • My Fellow Americans: a family album (San Diego: Browndeer Press, 1995)
  • Count on me (Harcourt Brace, 1998) — set take possession of 10 board books ‡
  • The Master Fighter & The Magic Doorway: two legends from ancient China, retold and illus. Alice Provensen (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2001) ‡
  • A Time in the Life of Murphy (S&S BYR, 2003) ‡ ~Maple Hill Region content
  • Klondike Gold (S&S BYR, 2005) ‡

‡ unpaged picture books

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