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- Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
- SOI_180816_007.JPG: United for Libraries
Literary Landmarks Register
Society of Illustrators
Since 1990, the Society's annual exhibit "The Original Art" has showcased this year's most outstanding children's book illustrations published in the U.S. The Society's Hall of Fame honors many notable children's book artists, including Howard Pyle, Maurice Sendak, and Jessie Willcox Smith. Other eminent children's book illustrators, such as Barbara Cooney, Virginia Lee Burton, and Arnold Lobel have also been recognized with Lifetime Achievement Awards.
Children's Book Week 2016
- SOI_180816_010.JPG: The mission of the Society of Illustrators is to promote the art and appreciation of illustration, its history and evolving nature through exhibitions, lectures and education.
- SOI_180816_015.JPG: They do drawing sessions periodically
- SOI_180816_018.JPG: I saw this same guy at a later visit. Good artist!
- SOI_180816_026.JPG: Alex Kirby
"Rip Kirby", c. 1950s
- SOI_180816_033.JPG: Heinrich Kley
Alligators skiing while being pulled by an elephant
- SOI_180816_037.JPG: Alan E. Cober
Artist's Proof
- SOI_180816_041.JPG: Henry Patrick Raleigh
"The Party Dress"
- SOI_180816_046.JPG: James McMullan
Illustration for "Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong" for Tim O'Brien, July 1989
- SOI_180816_049.JPG: Frederic L. "Eric" Pape
"Portrait of Billie Burke", 1930
- SOI_180816_052.JPG: Stevan Dohanos
"The Coal Men"
Saturday Evening Post magazine cover, October 18, 1947
- SOI_180816_056.JPG: Benjamin Albert Stahl
"Aloha Means Good-by"
Illustration for a story by Robert Carson, 1941
- SOI_180816_060.JPG: John Romita Sr.
"The Amazing Spider-Man"
Newspaper Daily Strip, May 21, 1980
Written by Stan Lee
- SOI_180816_064.JPG: Robert McGinnis
"The Scrambled Eggs"
Cover illustration for the story by Richard Prather, 1960, 1968
- SOI_180816_067.JPG: Gregg Manchess
"Nanuk"
Book illustration for Nanuk: Lord of the Ice, by Brian Heinz, 1998
- SOI_180816_076.JPG: Robert Grossman
The Reagan/Carter Debate, 1980
- SOI_180816_084.JPG: Al Lorenz
by James Bennett
- SOI_180816_089.JPG: Judy Francis Zankel
by Tim O'Brien
- SOI_180816_092.JPG: Richard Herenson
by Greg Manchess
- SOI_180816_096.JPG: Dennis Dittrich
by Victor Juhasz
- SOI_180816_098.JPG: Pruett A. Carter
"Hail and Farewell"
Illustration for the story by Williston Rich
The American Magazine, December 1938
- SOI_180816_104.JPG: Joseph Christian Leyendecker
"Easter"
Cover for The Saturday Evening Post, April 22, 1905
- SOI_180816_109.JPG: Martha Sawyers
"Cafe Sinister"
Illustration for the story of the same name by Ben Hecht, 1943
- SOI_180816_127.JPG: Rod Hunt
You never know what you'll get
- SOI_180816_138.JPG: Newell Convers Smith
"The Black Arrow", illustration for the cover of the book by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1916
- SOI_180823_15.JPG: Norman Rockwell
The Christmas Coach, 1935
Painting was used in The Saturday Evening Post, December 28, 1935)
- SOI_180823_16.JPG: This was a sketch that one of the participants was drawing -- he was the same guy I had photographed on my previous visit.
- SOI_180823_27.JPG: Wesley B. McKeown
by Norman Rockwell
- SOI_180823_31.JPG: Alvin Pimsler
by Charles Santore
- SOI_180823_38.JPG: Carl Bobertz
by Al Schmidt
- SOI_180823_40.JPG: John Moodie
by W.E. Fuchs
- SOI_180823_42.JPG: Presidential Portraits
The photograph above shows the first 14 portraits that were commissioned in 1943 for display in The Founder's Room -- now our 4th floor Library. Past Presidents still living and some of their portrayers gathered to inaugurate the event. ...
Subsequently, each President at the end of the term selects an illustrator to create a portrait that is then added to the collection. The President has the option of retraining the original and leaving a reproduction in its stead.
Sometime in the 1960s, the portraits were rehung in the 3rd floor. Dining Room until they were moved to the stairwells in 2008.
- SOI_180823_45.JPG: Ray Frohaska
by John Noth (?)
- SOI_180823_47.JPG: Ervine Metzl
by Ray ...
- SOI_180823_48.JPG: Charles Henry Carter
by Wm Oberhardt
- SOI_180823_51.JPG: J. Robert Geissmann
by Wm Oberhardt
- SOI_180823_52.JPG: Harold von Schmidt
by James Montgomery Flagg
- SOI_180823_55.JPG: John Holmgren
by Martha Sawyers
- SOI_180823_60.JPG: C.D. Williams
by James Montgomery Flagg
- SOI_180823_64.JPG: Charles Dana Gibson
by Wm Oberhardt
- SOI_180823_67.JPG: Dean Cornwell
by Charles Dana Gibson
- SOI_181006_013.JPG: Ralph Steadman Was Here
- SOI_181006_031.JPG: Norman Rockwell
The Christmas Coach, 1935
- SOI_181006_040.JPG: Wesley B. McKeown
by Norman Rockwell
- SOI_181006_041.JPG: by Gerald McConnell
- SOI_181006_043.JPG: Shannon Stirnweis
by Dean Ellis
- SOI_181006_045.JPG: Walter Hortens
by Bob Peak
- SOI_181006_050.JPG: Presidential Portraits
The photograph above shows the first 14 portraits that were commissioned in 1943 for display in The Founder's Room -- now our 4th floor Library. Past Presidents still living and some of their portrayers gathered to inaugurate the event. ...
Subsequently, each President at the end of the term selects an illustrator to create a portrait that is then added to the collection. The President has the option of retraining the original and leaving a reproduction in its stead.
Sometime in the 1960s, the portraits were rehung in the 3rd floor. Dining Room until they were moved to the stairwells in 2008.
- SOI_181006_055.JPG: Stevan Dohanos
by C.C. Beall
- SOI_181006_058.JPG: Charles Henry Carter
by Wm. Oberhardt
- SOI_181006_063.JPG: Harold von Schmidt
by James Montgomery Flagg
- SOI_181006_068.JPG: Charles Dana Gibson
by Wm. Oberhardt
- SOI_181006_069.JPG: Arthur I. Keller
by George Brehm
- SOI_181006_076.JPG: Rod Hunt
You Never Know What You'll Get
- SOI_181006_099.JPG: Joseph Christian Leyendecker
"Easter", 1905
Cover for The Saturday Evening Post, April 22, 1905
This is one of Leyendecker's first Easter covers for the Saturday Evening Post. He was to complete dozens more, often applying his most imaginative ideas to that season. Here, he was surrounded the figure with a tracery of wispy black lines, which serve to soften the edges and simultaneously give them more graphic emphasis. Much of this power was lost in the magazine reproduction, which employed only two colors of ink.
- Wikipedia Description: Society of Illustrators
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Society of Illustrators is a professional society based in New York City. It was founded in 1901 to promote the art of illustration and, since 1959, has held an annual exhibition.
History
Founding
The Society of Illustrators was founded on February 1, 1901, by a group of nine artists and one advising businessman. The advising businessman was Henry S. Fleming, a coal dealer who offered his legal staff to the Society in an advisory role and also served as the Society of Illustrators Secretary and Treasurer for many years. The nine artists who, with Fleming, founded the Society were Otto Henry Bacher, Frank Vincent DuMond, Henry Hutt, Albert Wenzell, Albert Sterner, Benjamin West Clinedinst, F. C. Yohn, Louis Loeb, and Reginald Birch. The mission statement was "to promote generally the art of illustration and to hold exhibitions from time to time".
World War I
During the World War I years, with Charles Dana Gibson as the acting president, Society members worked through the Division of Pictorial Publicity, creating many original poster designs, including James M. Flagg's US Army iconic recruiting poster of Uncle Sam, as well as advertising of the massive War Bond effort. Photo journalism was impractical during these years and eight Society members, commissioned Captains in the Engineers, were sent to France to sketch the war. After the war, the Society operated the School for Disabled Soldiers.
1920–1930
In 1920, the Society was incorporated, and in 1922 women were allowed to become full members. Prior to this women were granted Associate Memberships since 1903.
The early history of the Society was documented in 1927 and 1939 by Norman Price. His hand written notes are held in the Society of Illustrators archives.
During the 1920s and 1930s the Society presented the Illustrator's Shows, featuring artists and their models as actors, songwriters, set designers and painters. Professional talent such as the Cotton Club band and Jimmy Durante also performed. Through member and set designer Watson Barrett, the Illustrator's Show of 1925 was held at the Shubert Theatre, and the Shuberts purchased the rights to the skits for their Broadway productions of Artists and Models. In 1939, those funds allowed the Society to acquire its present headquarters, at 128 East 63rd Street. Norman Rockwell's Dover Coach became the backdrop for the bar on the fourth floor, donated by Rockwell in honor of the Society's new building. This painting currently hangs in the Members Dining Room.
World War II
During World War II the Society again contributed to the war effort with a massive campaign of posters. Society members visited veterans’ hospitals to sketch the wounded, and these art works were sent to the families to boost morale. The Illustrator's Jazz Band was formed to entertain the wounded, and an ensemble by the same name plays at Society events up until the present.
1950s
In 1948, the Joint Ethics Committee, of which The Society is a member developed the first Code of Fair Practice, which still serves today in addressing concerns of artists and art directors working in the graphic communications field where abuses and misunderstandings regarding usage rights and ownership of works of illustration and other works of art created for a wide range of public media.
In 1954, the U.S. Air Force began sending members around the world to document its activities. This program continues today. Thousands of paintings have been contributed over the years.
The year 1959 saw the Society hold its first Annual Exhibition, juried by Bob Peak, Bradbury Thompson, Stevan Dohanos and others. It opened with 350 original works of art and led to the publication of the first Illustrators Annual.
Present
2001 was the Society's centennial year, a 12-month celebration begun with the U.S. Postal issue, Great American Illustrators. That year was punctuated with the 9/11 Memorial Exhibition, Prevailing Human Spirit.
The Society of illustrators continues to maintain an annual of illustration, student scholarship competitions and various awards honoring excellence in the field of illustration.
The Society began and maintains outreach programs with The New York City Parks Department (2001–present), the New York City Board of Education (1999–present).
Anelle Miller has been the director of the Society since 2007.
Society Presidents
The current President of the Society of Illustrators is Tim O'Brien
Notable Past Presidents of the Society
* Charles Dana Gibson (1904–1905, 1909–1920)
* Albert Sterner (1907–1908) — founding member
* George Hand Wright (1926–1927)
* Wallace Morgan (1929–1936)
* Harold von Schmidt (1938–1941)
* Albert Dorne (1947–1948)
Museums
The Museum of American Illustration was established in 1981, under the stewardship of then President John Witt. Today the permanent collection includes nearly 2500 works by such artists as Norman Rockwell, Howard Pyle, N.C. Wyeth, James Montgomery Flagg, Bob Peak and Bernie Fuchs.
The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MoCCA) transferred its assets in August 2012 to the Society, which has continued the MoCCA Fest.
Recognition
The Society of Illustrators inaugurated the Hall of Fame program in 1958, to recognize "distinguished achievement in the art of illustration". The first recipient was Norman Rockwell. Like other recognized artists, he was elected by former Society presidents for his contributions to the field of illustration. Every year since 1958, one or more illustrators have been added to the Hall of Fame. In 2001, two additional forms of recognition were added: Dean Cornwell Recognition Award and the Arthur William Brown Achievement Award, which may be awarded annually.
In 1965, The Society established The Hamilton King Award, which is given annually to one society member, and is widely considered to be the most prestigious award in illustration.
In 1981, The Society established the Student Scholarship Competition, which has continued annually to the present. The Highest Award presented to a student by the society is the Zankel Scholarship Award, established in 2006 in honor of Arthur Zankel, an advocate for higher education whose bequest made the scholarship possible.
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