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Chris Van Allsburg

Chris Van Allsburg (Born 1949) is active/lives in Massachusetts, Rhode Island.  Chris Van Allsburg is known for Children's book illustration, transportation theme sculpture.

Following is the text of the 2010 induction of Chris Van Allsburg into The Illustrators Hall of Fame.

If Chris Van Allsburg is the fish that got away, then I'm the angler that couldn't tell the difference between a perch and a pike.  In the late 1970s, when I was art director of The New York Times OpEd page, Chris's wife, Lisa, brought the newly minted portfolio of her husband to my office hoping that I would assign him an illustration.  The work was amazing, but it was not illustration.  In fact, it was mostly wood sculpture (a bit reminiscent of H.C. Westerman's surrealist wood boxes). Van Allsburg, who had graduated with an MFA degree in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1975, had already had a couple of shows at Allen Stone Gallery in Manhattan, but an illustrator he was not.  His ironic blend of real and surreal was conceptually perfect for the art world at that time-and, in a weird way, it might have been right for the Times   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 8532 characters.]  Artist bio

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