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The first survey of Leo Lionni’s protean career as a graphic
designer, children’s book creator, and fine artist. Between
Worlds: The Art and Design of Leo Lionni opens at the Norman
Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA, on 18 November 2023. Leo Lionni
(1910–1999) was a key figure of postwar visual culture, who
believed that a smart, pithy design language could unite people
across generations and cultural boundaries. He first achieved
success in the field of graphic design, serving as the influential
art director of Fortune magazine from 1948 to 1960 and personally
executing such innovative designs as the catalogue for the Museum
of Modern Art’s seminal photo exhibition The Family of Man. Then,
in the 1960s, he embarked on an equally groundbreaking career in
picture books, using torn-paper collages to illustrate modern
animal fables such as Frederick and Swimmy, which are still beloved
today. But even as his books won multiple Caldecott Honors, Lionni
— who had begun as a painter — also maintained a fine art
practice centered on his Parallel Botany, a richly imagined world
of fanciful plants. This volume, the catalogue of a major
exhibition at the Norman Rockwell Museum, is the first to present
Lionni’s extraordinary career in the round. Written by leading
scholars and with an introduction by the artist’s granddaughter,
it is illustrated with abundant examples of his work, including
many little-seen items from the Lionni family archives. Leo Lionni:
Storyteller, Artist, Designer will be an important, and
eye-opening, contribution to the history of art and design.
Tony Sarg (1880–1942), an American artist born in Guatemala to a
diplomatic family, first achieved professional success as an
illustrator in London and New York. But in the 1920s, he gained
even greater renown for his touring puppet shows based on classic
tales like Alice in Wonderland and Robinson Crusoe. Fusing the
time-honoured craft of traditional marionette shows with a playful
modern sensibility, Sarg’s productions were foundational to
American puppetry: Jim Henson can be considered a direct artistic
descendant. Yet this was only one facet of Sarg’s varied
accomplishments: he was also a pioneer in animated films and
children’s books, and, as a longtime designer for Macy’s, he
invented the gigantic balloons used in the firm’s Thanksgiving
Day Parade. (He also employed one of his parade balloons in the
famous Nantucket Sea Serpent hoax of 1937.) This abundantly
illustrated volume, published to coincide with a major exhibition
organised by the Norman Rockwell Museum, is the first to survey
Tony Sarg’s protean career. It brings together imagery and
artifacts from numerous public and private collections, and
includes special sections on Sarg’s long association with the
island of Nantucket and his influence on American puppetry. Tony
Sarg: Genius at Play will be essential reading for anyone with an
interest in the history of popular culture.
Before Norman Rockwell put paintbrush to canvas, he had a precise
idea of what he wanted to create. A perfectionist and analytical
thinker, Rockwell completed numerous preparatory drawings in the
process of developing his paintings, much like the Old Masters
before him. He worked in several stages, including thumbnail
sketches and studies of particular details - culminating in a
meticulous tonal drawing that served as a basis for the final
painting. But Rockwell’s drawing was not only in the service of
his painting: he also executed finished illustrations in pencil and
charcoal; kept travel sketchbooks; and shared illustrated letters,
caricatures, and comics with his family and friends. This
abundantly illustrated book reveals the entire scope of
Rockwell’s work as a draftsman. It reproduces the full sequence
of preliminary drawings (and reference photographs) that led up to
some of his most famous Saturday Evening Post covers - and it also
presents a generous sampling of his standalone drawings, many of
them rarely published. The text, by curators at the Norman Rockwell
Museum, illuminates and contextualises the different aspects of
Rockwell’s drawing practice. Norman Rockwell: Drawings, which
accompanies an exhibition at the Norman Rockwell Museum, will be a
must-have reference for artists and illustrators, and a delight for
art lovers.
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