Boris Artzybasheff
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Boris Mikhailovich Artzybasheff (
Life and career
Artzybasheff was born in
His earliest work appeared in 1922 as illustrations for Verotchka's Tales and The Undertaker's Garland. A number of other book illustrations followed during the 1920s.
During his lifetime, however, Artzybasheff was probably known best for his magazine art. He illustrated the major American magazines Life, Fortune, and Time.[1]) He painted 219 Time covers from 1942 to 1966, including portraits of Dmitri Shostakovich (20 July 1942),[2] Louis Armstrong (21 February 1949) and Dave Brubeck (8 November 1954). Other illustrators of Time covers during this period, which has been called the golden age of Time covers, included Robert Vickrey, James Ormsbee Chapin, Bernard Safran and Boris Chaliapin.[3]
During
After 1940, he devoted himself to
His graphic style is striking. In commercial work he explored grotesque experiments in anthropomorphism, where toiling machines displayed distinctly human attributes. Conversely, his portrait of Buckminster Fuller's head in the form of his geodesic dome was featured on the cover of the 10 January 1964 issue of TIME magazine and a 37-cent American commemorative stamp issued on 12 July 2004.[4] In his personal work, he explored the depiction of vivid and extreme ranges of human psychology and emotion.
His papers are collected at Syracuse University.
Selected illustrations
- Verotchka's Tales, by
- The Undertaker's Garland, by
- Feats on the Fiord, by Harriet Martineau, 1802–1876 (Macmillan Children's Classics, 1924)
- The Wonder Smith and His Son, by Ella Young (1927)
- Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon, by Dhan Gopal Mukerji (1927)
- Orpheus: Myths of the World, by Padraic Colum (1930)
- Son of the Sword, by Youel B. Mirza (1934), OCLC 28535329
- All Things Are Possible: An Apocryphal Novel, by Lewis Browne, dust jacket (1935)
- The Circus of Dr. Lao, by Charles G. Finney (1935)
- Seven Simeons: a Russian Tale, written by Artzybasheff (1937)
- Nansen, by Anne Gertrude Hall (1940)
- Land of Unreason, by Fletcher Pratt and L. Sprague de Camp (1942)
- The Tree of Life: Selections from the Literature of the World's Religions, by Ruth Smith (1942)
- The Little Sister, by Raymond Chandler, dust jacket (1949)
- The Simple Art of Murder, by Raymond Chandler, dust jacket (1950)
As the illustrator of Seven Simeons, which he also wrote, Artzybasheff was one of two runners-up for the Caldecott Medal in 1938, when the American Library Association inaugurated its award for children's picture books. Mukerji won the 1928 Newbery Medal for Gay Neck; Young and Hall were among the runners-up for that annual ALA award, which recognizes the "most distinguished contribution to children's literature". Finney won one of the inaugural, 1935 National Book Awards for The Circus of Dr. Lao.
Further reading
- Iacono, Domenic J. (November 1993). "The Art of Boris Artzybasheff". .
References
- ^ Time magazine covers by Boris Artzybasheff Archived 5 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine from 1941 to 1965 at Time.
- ISBN 0-691-12068-4.
- ISBN 978-0-8108-2478-2, retrieved 10 June 2017
- ^ 37c R. Buckminster Fuller single – National Postal Museum (Smithsonian Institution). Archived 7 January 2024 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 6 January 2024.
External links
- Works by or about Boris Artzybasheff at Internet Archive
- Boris Artzybasheff posters, hosted by the University of North Texas Libraries Digital Collections
- Jim Vadeboncoeur's biography of Boris Artzybasheff Archived 17 March 2019 at the Wayback Machine
- 1951 Christmas Card
- Boris Artzybasheff at Library of Congress, with 33 library catalogue records
- Guide to the Roman Weil Collection of Boris Artzybasheff 1929–1965 at the University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center
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