Garth Williams

src: 4.bp.blogspot.com

Garth Montgomery Williams (April 16, 1912 - May 8, 1996) is an American artist who became famous in the postwar era of America as a children's book illustrator. Many of the books he illustrated have become classics of American children's literature. The exceptions are the illustrations he created for mature audiences in 'Room for Night' by Pauline Leader, Vanguard Press, 1946.

In Stuart Little , Charlotte's Web , and in the Little House series of Laura Ingalls Wilder's books, Williams's paintings have become non- integral. from how we think of those stories. In that case... Williams's works belong to the same class as Sir John Tenniel's drawings for Alice in Wonderland, or Ernest Shepard's illustrations for Winnie the Pooh .

Her friendly, hairy baby animals filled dozens of Small Gold Books.

Mel Gussow in The New York Times wrote, "She believes that books given, or read, for children can have a big impact!" For that reason, he says, he uses his illustrations to try to 'awaken something important... humor, responsibility, respect for others, world wide interests!' "

Video Garth Williams

Kehidupan awal

Garth Williams was born in New York City in 1912 to an artist from England. His father is a cartoonist for Punch , his mother is a landscape painter. "Everyone in my house is always painting or drawing." He grew up in agriculture in New Jersey and Canada until his family moved to England in 1922. Williams studied architecture and worked for time as an assistant architect. But when the Great Depression came, he decided to become an artist, not an architect. He began his studies at the Westminster School of Art in 1929, and in 1931 was awarded a four-year scholarship to the Royal College of Art, where he created a statue that was awarded the British Prix de Rome. He continued his education at the English School in Rome in Germany and Italy, until the outbreak of World War II in Europe.

In London he volunteered with an ambulance of the British Red Crescent Police, and helped gather dead and wounded from the streets. After a bomb explosion yawned a friend who had walked beside him, he sent his wife and daughter to Canada, and reunited with them in New York in 1942.

Maps Garth Williams

Careers

In the United States, Williams works at making a lens at a war factory, which is applied to work as a camouflage artist, donating battle war posters to the British-American Art Center in New York, and bringing his portfolio to major publishers. He drew for The New Yorker for an unsatisfactory time period. Then, in 1945, he received his first commission as an illustrator, from editor Ursula Nordstrom of Harper's Department of Books for Boys and Girls. The story is Nordstrom "telling him that he was expecting a script that he might illustrate.In coincidence, when the manuscript came the author had pinned a note for him: 'Try Garth Williams' The author is EB White; the book is Stuart Little . "The Whites want Robert Lawson to work on the project, but has burned eight illustrators. This book became a success with both adults and children. Williams later said that seeing adults on buses and trains reading Stuart Little persuaded him to continue as a freelance illustrator.

Soon he started his collaboration with Margaret Wise Brown with The Little Fur Family, Harper's answer to Simon & amp; Schuster's Pat the Bunny . Nordstrom knew that the book would be a success when a mother wrote to tell her that her little boy had opened her copy at the dinner table, and tried to feed her dinner. Overall, Williams described eleven Brown's books.

In 1951 he illustrated Charlotte's Web (1952); Fiona's eldest son, who is still a toddler when the family escapes from Blitz, is his model for Fern Arable.

At the end of his life, Williams mainly lived in Marfil, a small town west of Guanajuato, Mexico. He was part of an expatriate colony that built or rebuilt houses in the ruins of a colonial mine of colonial Mexico. At age 81 he estimated that he had illustrated 97 books.

At 84 Williams died at his home in Marfil; she was buried in Aspen, Colorado. She has been married four times and has five daughters: Fiona and Bettina from her first marriage; Jessica and Estyn from the second; Dilys of the four; and a son, Dylan, from his third marriage. Little House_illustrations_.281953.29 "> Little House (1953)

Williams received a commission to illustrate a new edition of Little House in about 1947. To discover Laura's childhood world, Williams, who had never been to the west of the Hudson River, traveled to the Midwest America to the Ingalls family had lived 70 years earlier, photographing and sketching landscapes, trees, birds and wildlife, buildings and cities. "The journey culminated in a search along the banks of the river along the Plum River where the family had built their resting house, it had been a long time ago.

I did not expect to find the house, but I was sure that it would leave a curve in the bank. Light rain did not help my search, and I almost gave up when in front of me, I saw exactly what I was looking for, a hole on the east bank of the Plum River. I feel very appreciated, because the scene depicts Mrs. Wilder's description perfectly.

[He] wants to... be able to see the house on Plum Creek... as Laura would, as a flowering blossom of elements, with stream music nearby. That's how he drew it.

Ursula Nordstrom's initial plan was for Williams to produce eight oil paintings for every book, sixty-four. This proved to be not cost-effective. Williams illustrated Little House's books with simple pencils, charcoal, and ink. Much of his work is completed in Italy.

Williams later illustrated the first edition of The First Four Years (1971), which is generally regarded as the last of the nine books in the Little House series.