Art Seiden
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Art Seiden was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1923. He received a BA at
Queens College and studied for eight years (!) at the Art Students
League. Mario Cooper was among his instructors. Upon entering the
illustration field he did corporate and advertising work for some of the
largest companies in America: Phillip Morris, Hoffmann-LaRoche, General
Motors and Hearst Publications were some of his clients.
But his distinctive style and best and longest association would have
to be in the realm of children's book illustration, where he cut his
teeth illustrating "Three Mice and a Rat" by Margaret Wise Brown and
Jean H. Berg in 1950. Seiden illustrated over 300 books and was both
author and artist of at least 22 children's books for virtually every
major publisher in America beginning rather appropriately with "My ABC
Book" for Wonder Books in 1953. Seiden spent the following decades
working with an alphabet of authors and coming back around to Margaret
Wise Brown with one final book, "The Train to Timbuctoo" for Golden
Books in 1999.
Seiden worked mainly in transparent watercolours and gouache and is a member of the American Watercolour Society and The Society of Illustrators, among others. His work is represented by the Kendra Krienke Gallery in New York City and he lived in Woodmere, NY. br Special thanks to Terri Goldich, Curator of Archives & Special Collections at the University of Connecticut, for assistance with this information. The Art Seiden Papers contain a comprehensive listing of titles Seiden worked on. br a href=\\\"http:\\u002F\\u002Ftodaysinspiration.blogspot.com\\u002F\\\" http:\\u002F\\u002Ftodaysinspiration.blogspot.com\\u002F \\u002Fa