Thursday, March 9, 2017

Gyo Fujikawa

[USA] (b 1908/d 1998)


"Gyo Fujikawa was born in Berkeley, California ; she moved to Los Angeles  to attend Chouinard Art Institute in 1926, having received a scholarship, After graduating and spending a year in Japan, she was on the Chouinard faculty from 1933-37 ; Fujikawa worked for the Walt Disney Company in California as a promotional artist, before moving to New York in 1941. From 1943-51 she worked for the pharmaceutical advertising agency William Douglas McAdams. In 1951 Fujikawa became a full-time freelancer, producing a dozen front-cover illustrations for Children's Digest and other periodicals, and about five years later she was approached by juvenile editor Debra Dorfman at Grosset & Dunlap to illustrate Robert Louis Stevenson's "A Child's Garden of Verses". This was her first published children's book . Babies, the first book both written and illustrated by Fujikawa in 1963, was also one of the earliest children's books to use multi-racial characters, a consistent feature across her body of work. Fujikawa's books have been reprinted for mass-market and published worldwide. Her joyous illustrations remain sweet and nostalgic and her paintings of children are recognizable for round happy faces, rosy cheeks and simple dot eyes.


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USA 1960 "Centenary of US/Japan Treaty" (1) [Recess] Sc(1158)


USA 1966 "Beautification of America" (1) [Recess] Sc(1318)


USA 1982 "50th Anniversary of the International Peace Garden (US-Canada Border)" (1) [Recess][Litho] Sc(2014)






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