Jerry Pinkney (1939–2021)
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Jerry Pinkney was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on December 22, 1939. He began drawing as a four-year-old child, studied commercial art at the Dobbins Vocational School, and received a full scholarship to the Philadelphia Museum College of Art. After graduating, Pinkney worked in design and mehr anzeigen illustrations, helped found Kaleidoscope Studios, and later opened the Jerry Pinkney Studio. His is a children's book illustrator and has created the art for over one hundred titles including Julius Lester's John Henry, Sam and the Tigers, and The Old African, plus adaptations of Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Match Girl and The Nightingale. He has won numerous awards including six Caldecott Honor Medals, five Coretta Scott King Awards, four Coretta Scott King Honor Awards, four New York Times Best Illustrated Book awards, and the Hamilton King Award. He also received the Virginia Hamilton Literary award from Kent State University in 2000, the University of Southern Mississippi Medallion in 2004, the Original Art's Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Illustrators in 2006, Laura Ingalls Wilder Award in 2016, and the Coretta Scott King -Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2016. In addition to holding numerous one-man retrospectives and exhibiting his work in more than one hundred international group shows, Pinkney's art resides in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library, the Delaware Art Museum, and the Brandywine River Art Museum. He has taught art at the Pratt Institute, the University of Delaware, and the University of Buffalo. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
Bildnachweis: Illustrator and writer Jerry Pickney at the 2019 Texas Book Festival in Austin, Texas, United States. By Larry D. Moore, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=83473856
Werke von Jerry Pinkney
The Little Match Girl (Adapted & Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney) (1967) — Adapter & Illustrator — 191 Exemplare
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi 4 Exemplare
The Horn Book Magazine, Awards Issue 1 Exemplar
Caldecott medal acceptance 1 Exemplar
Μύθοι Αισώπου 1 Exemplar
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From Sea to Shining Sea A Treasury of American Folklore and Folk Songs (1993) — Illustrator — 683 Exemplare
The Art of Reading: Forty Illustrators Celebrate RIF's 40th Anniversary (2005) — Mitwirkender — 243 Exemplare
A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation (2019) — Illustrator — 162 Exemplare
On the Wings of Peace: Writers and Illustrators Speak Out for Peace, in Memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1995) — Illustrator — 98 Exemplare
The Twin Witches of Fingle Fu — Illustrator — 1 Exemplar
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, December 1978 — Illustrator — 1 Exemplar
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- Geburtstag
- 1939-12-22
- Todestag
- 2021-10-20
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Todesursache
- heart attack
- Wohnorte
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Croton-on-Hudson, New York, USA - Ausbildung
- Philadelphia Museum College of Art
- Berufe
- Painter
Children's Book Author
Children's Book Illustrator - Beziehungen
- Pinkney, Gloria Jean (wife)
Pinkney, J. Brian (son)
Pinkney, Myles C. (son)
Pinkney, Andrea Davis (daughter-in-law)
Pinkney, Sandra L. (daughter-in-law) - Preise und Auszeichnungen
- University of Southern Mississippi Medallion (2004)
Society of Illustrators Lifetime Achievement Award ( [2006])
Regina Medal (2005)
Coretta Scott King – Virginia Hamilton Award (2016)
Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal (2016) - Agent
- Sheldon Fogelman
- Kurzbiographie
- Jerry Pinkney was an illustrator of children's books and the winner of numerous awards including one Caldecott Medal and five Caldecott Honors. In 2004 he won the University of Southern Mississippi Medallion for outstanding contributions in the field of children’s literature.
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