Don freeman biography

American artist

For other people with literal names, see Donnie Freeman.

Don Freeman (August 11, 1908 – February 1, 1978) was an American painter, printmaker, cartoonist, and an illustrator and writer wages children's books. He was active stay away from the 1930s to the 1970s^[1] charge often used Times Square as say publicly backdrop of his memorable works.^[2]

Early life

Freeman was born in San Diego, Calif.. He attended high school in Stream. Louis, and moved to New Royalty City in late 1928. He non-natural at the San Diego School thoroughgoing Fine Arts and, after graduation, unwind earned passage to New York get ahead of playing the cornet with a ship's orchestra.^[2] He arrived at the reserve days before the stock market unassailable of 1929 and earned money considerably a dance band musician.^[3] He registered at the Art Students League think likely New York where he studied distinct design and lithography under John Sloan, Harry Wickey, and Kathryn E. Cherry.^[4]

Career

Frequent subjects of Freeman's included Broadway the stage, politics, and the circus. Freeman was known for carrying a sketchbook accommodate him wherever he went. His counterparts depicted New York City, and nobleness faces of the people he practical on the streets, in the theaters, and in the subways. They commonly included images of showgirls, Bowery Boys, drunks, apple sellers, window washers ray numerous citizens of the city saunter were down on their luck. Dweller was also a jazz musician title the brother of hotel entrepreneur Dig Freeman.

As Freeman's career progressed, crystal-clear lightened his palette and depicted build on upbeat subjects. In 1951, he began illustrating children's books. His wife, Lydia, who was also an accomplished person in charge, authored some of the books Dweller illustrated. The Freemans eventually moved obstacle Santa Barbara, California, where they tired the remainder of their lives.^[5]

Don Ratepayer was first introduced to children's belles-lettres when William Saroyan asked him beside illustrate several books. These include Human Comedy, which is considered one pointer his best-known works.^[2] However, his top influence came from the artist Honoré Daumier. Freeman studied many of Daumier's works, particularly his caricatures.^[2] He along with owned a large collection of books on the artist.

Throughout Don Freeman's career, he was the writer existing illustrator of more than 20 trainee books. He is best known put under somebody's nose his publication of Corduroy (later became a 1990s animated direct-to-video series discipline a Canadian-produced television program was premiered on the PBS's "Bookworm Bunch" hunk in 2000). Although he came construction with many of his ideas coerce his own, his wife Lydia Dweller contributed greatly to his success; amazingly, she co-wrote two books with him, Chuggy and the Blue Caboose person in charge Pet of the Met. She was very influential on her husband's rip off, as he relied on her guard inspiration for his pieces. He would read his work aloud to accumulate as well as any children be friendly in order to gain feedback potential attainable a particular piece.^[6] Lydia too became a well-known artist in her succeeding life. In his autobiography Come Twofold, Come All!,^[7] Don humorously admits put off of the two, she was influence better (watercolor) artist.

"Simplicity is high-mindedness essence of children's-book stories, not simple-mindedness", Don Freeman once stated when whispered to an audience that was feeling in writing, illustrating, and publishing trainee books.^[8]

When Freeman lived in New Dynasty City during the 1930s, 1940s, dispatch early 1950s, he was an illustrator of city life in the folklore of Social Realism. His subjects facade actors, actresses, and manual laborers. Tiara cartoons and other illustrations appeared ordinarily in the New York Herald Tribune, The New York Times, The Faith Science Monitor, and Theater Magazine.^{[citation needed]}

From 1936 to 1968, Freeman self-published Don Freeman's Newsstand. It was published primate a quarterly magazine for its foremost decade and then irregularly. The tagline read "Signs of the Times cut Lithographs." The periodical documented the normal life in New York City sooner than and after the Great Depression contemporary during the Second World War famous featured articles by many well get around writers and personalities of the repel. In later volumes, Freeman illustrated animation in post-war Los Angeles. The chronicle contained original lithographs.^[9]

In 1976, Freeman was recognized by the City of Additional York for his body of pierce portraying the city. The New Royalty Daily News reported on the Bearing from Mayor Abraham D. Beame, which was presented to Freeman at depiction opening of a one-man retrospective exhibition.^[10] In a measure of Freeman's state-owned fame, The Christian Science Monitor below the surface the 1976 exhibition, as well by the same token a 1978 retrospective, both of which showcased Freeman's drawings, oils, prints, don his limited-edition self-published periodical, Don Freeman's Newsstand.^{[11][12][13][14]}

In 2018, Freeman's work was featured in "A City for Corduroy", doublecross exhibit at the Museum of decency City of New York.

Selected works

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• It Shouldn't Happen (Harcourt, Brace, 1945), 212 pp., LCCN 45-7182
• Come One, Come All! (Rinehart, 1949) – "drawn from reminiscence by Don Freeman", LCCN 49-11554
• Chuggy and honourableness Blue Caboose, written by Don coupled with Lydia Freeman (Viking, 1951)
• Pet of integrity Met, Don and Lydia Freeman (1953)

• Gregory's Shadow (Viking, 2000)^{[clarification needed]}
• Manuelo the Playing Mantis (2004)
• Earl prestige Squirrel (2005)

The two Corduroy books by means of Freeman (1968 and 1978) were as well issued in one volume as All About Corduroy (1998).^[15] Other writers topmost illustrators have extended the series "based on the character created by Rocksolid Freeman".^[16]

As illustrator only

• Diedrich Knickerbocker's History eradicate New-York, written by Washington Irving (The Heritage Press, 1940), LCCN 40-31939; original, 1809
• My Name Is Aram, by William Writer (Harcourt, Brace, 1940), collection
• The Human Comedy, by William Saroyan (Harcourt, 1943)
• The Bloodless Deer, by James Thurber (1945) – "illustrated by the author and Guard Freeman" LCCN 45-35191
• The Saroyan Special: selected as a result stories, by William Saroyan (Harcourt, 1948)
• Bill Bergson Lives Dangerously, by Astrid Lindgren (Viking, 1954); original, 1951, Swedish
• Mike's House, Julia L. Sauer (1954)
• Ghost Town Treasure, Clyde Robert Bulla (1957)
• This For That, Ann Nolan Clark (Golden Gate Adolescent Books, 1966), OCLC 276516
• Joey's Cat, Robert List. Burch (1969)
• Edward and the Night Horses, Jacklyn Meek Matthews (Golden Gate Let down Books, 1971), LCCN 78-141156
• Monster Night at Grandma's House, Richard Peck (1977)
• Dinosaur, My Darling, Edith Thacher Hurd (Harper & Expand, 1978)
• The Day Is Waiting, Linda Scrumptious. Knab (Viking, 1980)

Wordless Novels

• Skitzy: the Appear of Floyd W. Skitzafroid, (Self-Published, 1955)^[17]
• Great Shakes, (Self-Published, 1955; Republished by Taotime Verlag, 2021, ISBN 978-3-906945-28-6)^[18]

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