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Lynd Kendall Ward (26 June 1905 – 28 June 1985) was an American artist and storyteller, and son of Methodist minister and prominent political organizer Harry F. Ward. He illustrated some 200 juvenile and adult books. Ward worked in wood engraving, watercolor, oil, brush and ink, lithography and mezzotint. June 26 is the 177th day of the year (178th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 188 days remaining. ...
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Look up Artist in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Artist Artist is a descriptive term applied to a person who engages in an activity deemed to be an art. ...
The Methodist movement is a group of denominations of Protestant Christianity. ...
Wood engraving is, simply, the craft, or technique, of engraving, using the medium of wood. ...
Watercolor is a painting technique making use of water-soluble pigments that are either transparent or opaque and are formulated with gum to bond the pigment to the paper. ...
Oil is a generic term for organic liquids that are not miscible with water. ...
Different styles of paintbrushes The term brush refers to a variety of devices mainly with bristles, wire or other filament of any possible material used mainly for cleaning, grooming hair, painting, deburring and other kinds of surface finishing, but also for many other purposes like (but not limited to) seals...
An ink is a liquid containing various pigments and/or dyes used for colouring a surface to render an image or text. ...
Lithography is a method for printing on a smooth surface. ...
Mezzotint is a printing process of the intaglio family, in which the surface of a metal plate is roughened evenly; the image is then brought out by smoothing the surface, creating the image by working from dark to light. ...
Ward studied at Columbia University and the State Academy for Graphics Arts, Leipzig, Germany, where he studied wood engraving with Hans Mueller. Columbia University is a private university in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City and a member of the Ivy League. ...
Upon graduating, Ward married author May McNeer and the newlyweds promptly sailed to Germany.
Other works
In 1930 Ward's woodcuts were used to illustrate Alec Waugh's travel book Hot Countries. His work on children's books included his 1953 Caldecott Medal winning book "The Biggest Bear," and his work on Esther Forbes' Johnny Tremain. Alexander Raban Waugh (Alec Waugh) (July 8, 1898 - September 3, 1981), was a British novelist, the elder brother of the better-known Evelyn Waugh. ...
The Caldecott Medal is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children published that year. ...
Esther Forbes (June 28, 1891 in Westborough, Massachusetts, USA - August 12, 1967) was a prize-winning author. ...
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Ward's work included an awareness of the racial injustice to be found in the United States. This is first apparent in the lynching scenes from Wild Pilgrimage and appears again in his drawings for North Star Shining: A Pictorial History of the American Negro, by Hildegarde Hoyt Swift, published in 1947. Ward uses African American characters, as well as several different Native ones in his 1973 book, The Silver Pony.
In 1972 Harry N. Abrams published Storyteller Without Words, a book that included Ward's six novels plus an assortment of his illustrations from other books. Ward himself broke his silence and wrote brief prologues to each of his works. Harry Nathan Abrams (1904 - 1979) was an English publisher. ...
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