|
Leonard Everett Fisher (born June 24, 1924) is an American artist known best for children's books. Since 1955 he has illustrated about 250 books for younger readers including about 88 that he also wrote. Fisher was born in the Bronx borough of New York City in 1924.〔〔 Raised in the Sea Gate section of Brooklyn, he began his formal art training with his Brooklyn-born father, Benjamin M. Fisher, a designer of naval vessels, who contributed to the construction of Simon Lake submarines in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and such US Navy fighting ships as the ''USS Arizona'', ''USS Honolulu'', and the ''USS North Carolina''. Between 1932 and 1942, Leonard Everett Fisher continued his training at the Heckscher Foundation (NY), with Moses and Raphael Soyer (NY), with Reginald Marsh at the Art Students League of New York, and Serge Chermayeff at Brooklyn College. He is a graduate of Yale University (1949, MFA 1950).〔(CBC Magazine: Meet the Author/Illustrator: Leonnard Everett Fisher )〕 == Selected books == *''Blackbeard's Last Fight'' *''Colonial American'' (19 volumes) *''Cyclops'' *''The Death of Evening Star'' *''Don Quixote and the Windmills'' *''The Great Wall of China'' *''Theseus and the Minotaur'' *''William Tell'' *''Gandhi * ''Gutenberg'' (1993), picture book that he also wrote 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Leonard Everett Fisher」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|